No reasonable reason which would be honorable to the minority of the Assembly, therefore, can be given for the eagerness which it displayed, on the sixteenth of February, to disturb the harmony of that body, in j which all of both factions appeared to have been i united in both purpose and action ; but, on that day, | Colonel Philip Schuyler, of Albany-county, in behalf j of that minority, renewed the conflict of factions | which had been opened, unsuccessfully, by Colonel I Abraham Ten Broeck, of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, on the preceding twenty-sixth of January. For that unseemly purpose, that distinguished niem-

" their trade." -- {Speech of Mr. Jeiikimon, in the Hmite of Commont, May 1.5, 1775.-- .Mnion's I'nrliiiini-iilani Rrgiiler, i., 470.)

Besiilfs the peculiarity of the titles of tliose several papers, to which reference has been maile there was a grave signifiainie in the fact that they were moved for, with those titles, by the head of the leading family in the Colony ; and that they were ordered by an iinanimons vote of the Assembly. It has suited those who have prefeiTed to traduce New York and her General .\ssembly, however, to regard both the (ieueral Assembly and its paiiers as only favorable to the Home GoTemment and | antagonistic to the common causi".

1 Jouruat of the " Die Martis, 10 ho., .\.M., the 31st January,

" 177.5."

- In the language of that pericxi. the word •' State," as it was used in this and similar connections, was the equivalent of the word "State- " nient," which, in such connections, is now employed.