" It is well-known here, that two-thirds at least of the inhabitants of this county, are friends to order and government, and opposed to Committees and all unlawful combinations ' ; and it will be made apparent to the world, that they are so, as soon as certain resolves now signing freely by the people, shall be ready for publication. -- And one principal reason why the friends to government did not assemble in greater numbers than they did on Tuesday last, was, that many of them had already, by signing those resolves, testified their loyalty to the King, their attaciiment to the constitution, their enmity to Committee:', and their accjuiescence in the prudent measures taken by their Assembly in the late session, for accommodating the unhappy differences between the mother country and the colonies ; and consequently thought they had already done their duty.-

"The Committee that was chosen, may, with some kind of propriety, be said to represent those particular persons who chose them : But how they can be denominated the representatives of the County of Westchester, who in general abhor Committees and Committee-men ; and are determined to take no steps that may have the least tendency to lead them into Rebellion, we cannot conceive. Certainly the friends to government who were collected at Captain Hatfield's, had a better right, from their

1 Vide pages 40, 42, ante.

2The "Resolves," referred to in the text, aie undoubtedly tliose which were re-produced ou page 43, ante. They originated in Duchess-county, wliicli, at tliat time, extended, southward, to Westchester-county ; and it is undei'stood that they were widely circulated throughout the former County, and, to a considerable extent, throughout Westchester-county. '