-The practice of all, at that period and subsequently, on all such occasions as that referred to in the text, will sufficiently indicate to the reader, that the enthusiasm for the King which was displayed, as mnch by one faction as by the other, at the White Plains, on that eventful April day, was clue quite as much to what had been drunk at the two Taverns, before eithi-r of those factions had gone to the Courthouse, as to the love for the King which either of them really possessed. But the Chairman of the Meeting kindly furuished conclusive evidence on the Bubject, when he wrote, •' much pains, I confess, were, on that day, ■' taken, to make temporary enthusiasts, and with other more crhUaru- " ting spirit than the spirit of loyalty." -- (/.en is 3Iorris In llie Piihlick, "MoRRiSANiA, May 7, 1775.")

Only culprits c<mfess " a wrong-doing ; and with this '* confession " of one of tlie principal offenders, on the occasion referre(i to, the reader will be enabled to understand how small an amount of genuine ^)o/r;o(- >'«m there was, in such a crowd, no matter for whom it hurrahed ; and liow small tlie price was with w-hich that crowd had been purchased, to further the purposes of either "the friends of the Government" or those of the revolutionary faction-- may he not be enabled to understand, also, something more of those who originated and fostered the revolutionary spirit, in the Colonies, and something more of the means which they employed, call them what you may, than those, claiming to be " historians," with a very few really honorable exceptions, have hitlierto told to him ?