' 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.

-In the narrative which the Chairman of the Meeting prepared, inimediately after the adjournment of that Meeting, he stated that "a very " numerous body of the Freeholders of the County assembled at the "Court House;" and that "an inconsiderable number of Persons "( among whom were many tenants not entitled to a vote) with Isaac " Wilkins, Esq., and Col. I'hilii)se at their head, then appeared." In the I'rolesI of llie Iiilmhilinitu and Fncholdi rs, subsequently published, it is stated, specifically, that when those from Captain llatfleld's Tavern entered the Courthouse, ".the numbers on each side seemed tube nearly " equal ; and both together might amount to two hundred or, at most, "two hundrod and fifty." Nearly a month after the publication of that ProUsI, and after he had secured the seat in the Continental Congress for which he ba<l so earnestly hankered -- his half-brother, Gouverneur, being then an aspirant to a seat in the proposed Provincial Congress, to which he was elected, on the following day-- Lewis Jlorris published an elaborate and very minute reply to that I'luUnI, in which, although nearly every feature of the latter waa bitterly controverted, ho conveniently said nothing whatever of the number of those, of either faction, who were at the Plains ; and, therein, ho emphatically acquiesced in what was said, on that subject, with so much precision, in the /^■o^■»<.