Intelligence of the movement of their opponents very soon reached those who were assembled at Captain Hatfield's Tavern ; and. we are told that, undoubtedly with very little delay, they, also, " walked " down to the Courthouse, although not half of their " friends who were expected had yet appeared." At that time, when the full force of all who thus presumed to act, in so vital a question, in the name of all who were, then, in Westchester-county -- and that, too, without any delegation of authority and, certainly, without any exi)ressed "consent" -- was undoubtedly present and acting, there was not present more than from a hundred to a hundred and twentyfive, Freeholders and others ; and there is evidence that quite as large a number, Freeholders and others, walked down to the Courthouse, from Captain Hatfield's Tavern, and strii)])ed all the novelty and all there was of what was said to have been integrity from the exposed and unsuccessful coup-de-main.'^ The individual respectability of none of these, of either faction, appears to have been imjjeached by any one ; but Colonel Morris subsequently attemi)ted to depreciate tlie political standing of som&of those who were

' From the fact that the Meeting had been organized and "had already "entered upon tlic business uf tlie day," before it waa known to those who were at Hatfield's Tavern, that any movement toward sucli an organization had been made-- a fact w liich was openly stated in the IVuU fl of tlie one faction witliout having been controverted in the elaborate reply of the Chairman of the Meeting --the secrecy of the niovenjeut is established, beyond a question. The motives of those who contrived that particular mode of operations, will be manifest to all who are ac(iuainted with the facts and with the practices of unscrupulous politicians, in Westchester-county as often aa elsewhere.