Livingston, of the Manor of Livingston, one of the leaders of the minority, offered a Resolution "that a day "maybe appointed to take the state of this Colony ''into consideration ; to enter such Resolutions as the "House may agree to, on their Journals; and, in " consequence of such Resolutions, to prepare a hum- " ble, firm, dutiful, and loyal Petition to our most gra- " cious Sovereign." Whatever may liave been the purposes of the minority, in submitting that Resolution, however, it certainly gathered no special advantages

I to itself, in doing so, since the majority promptly accepted a proposition which was perfectly agreeable to it, and added importance to it, per se, by uniting with the minority in support of it, all the members who were present, the conservative as well as the radical, uniting in the unanimous adoption of it.^

Immediately after the adoption of the Resolution

I submitted by the Representative of the Livingston Manor, James De Lancey, of the City of New York, one of the leaders of the majority

i and the head of that powerful family, moved "that a Memorial to the Lords, and a Representation

1 " and Remonstrance to the Commons of Great Brit-

I " ain may be prepared, together with the Petition "to his Majesty;"^ and, like the Resolution which

-Jouninl of the Hmise, " Die Martis, 10 ho., A.M., the 31st January, '1775."

3 The peculiar force, if not the peculiar assertion of the pohtical standing of the General .Assembly, with which the proposed papers w ere