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^■»<.

not of his supporters, by saying there were among them " many tenants who were not entitled to vote," etc., -- they were recognized as respectable farmers, even by that particular Morris who aimed to belittle them; but, in the presence of such as he, with nothing but what he had inherited, to ensure to him even a nominal respectability, they were evidently expected to be no more than dumb dogs, even while their homes and their properties were i)ut in- jeopardy and the peace and liai)piness of their families endangered by the doings of those " better classes," before one of whom they then stood.