" Be pleased to communicate this Letter to the " Inhabitants of your County; and should they con- ",cur with us in Sentiment, we beg they will consider, " whether it would not be best to choose their Depu- " ties so soon as tiiat they may be down here by the " 20th of April next ; which Day we take the Liberty " of proposing to you as 2>roper for the Meeting of " the Convention.

" We forbear urging any Arguments to induce " your Concurrence, being well persuaded you are " fully sensible that the Happiness of this Colony " and the Preservation of our Rights and Liberties, " depend on our acceding to the General Union and " observing such a Line of Conduct as may be firm, " as well as Temperate.

" By Order of the Committee :

'• Isaac Low, Chairman.'"

It is a very significant fact that, when the Committee's Circuhir Letter was written and made ready for transmission to Westchester-county, there was no appearance whatever, within tiiat County, of the slightest organized opposition to either the Home or the Colonial Government; and that, among the debris of what had been conveniently regarded as a Convention of the County, assembled, in the preceding August, for the election of Deputies to represent the County in the late Congress, at Philadel[)hia, neither a County nor a Town Committee, actual or imixginary, remained, to bear testimony to the fact that such a Convention had ever existed, or to receive | the Committee's Circular Letter and to take action [ on its recommendation. Indeed, there can be very little doubt that the well-to-do and generally contented farmers, throughout that County, those who were Freeholders quite as much as those who were i only Leaseholders of properties on the various j Manors, with here and there a rare exception, had continued to gather their crops and to send them to •market, during the preceding Autumn ; to enjoy their