Measures which were sincerely intended for the promotion of the common cause of the Colonies, in their struggle with the Home Government, -- measures which presented nothing else than political principles or recitals of facts which no one, of any sect or fiiction, pretended to dispute -- were opposed, vehemently and without measure, within as well as without the Assembly, only because they had 'not originated and were not supported before the House, by the opjjosite faction of the Opj)osition ; and, with that hereditary, or sectional, or sectarian, or partisan bitterness which the lapse of years has served only to intensify, that work of depreciation and misrepresentation of those measures and of all who favored them, continues to disgrace much, at the present day, which is audaciously called " history."

A candid and carefully-made comparison of the terms of those several State of Grievances, and declaratory Resolutions, and Pttition, and Memorial, and Representation and Remonstrance, which were prepared, and agreed to, and presented, and published by that uuicli-abused General Assembly of Colonial New York, with the several Resolutions, and Declaration of Rights, and Association, and Addresses, and Memorials, and Petition, which, in like manner, were prepared, and agreed to, and presented, and published ' by the much-eulogized Congress of the Continent, which had assembled in Pliiladeli)hia, in September, 1774, will clearly establish the fact that the former were 1 quite as decided, in their tone, and quite as clear and j distinct, in their terms, as the latter; and such a I comparison will also clearly establish the fact that, I in its continuous and violent o|)position to the former.