"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. '

" number, to determine that there should be no Com- " mittee, than the opposite party had to appoint one, " and might with much greater propriety be said to " shew the sense of the county, than the few who " acted without authority, and in direct opposition to "government, and to the determinations of our worthy "Assembly. And we doubt not but the impartial " public will consider the matter in this light, and " not esteem the act of a few individuals, unlawfully " assembled, as the act (which it most assuredly is " not) of the very respectable, populous and loi/al coun- " ty of Westchester." '

The promoters of the Meeting were evidently only a minority of those present, at the Courthouse, on that memorable eleventh of April ; and it is equally evident that if those who were opposed to them had pursued a different line of conduct and had joined issue with them, on the main question, the weight of the County would have been emphatically cast on the side of the conservatives, and in opposition to the election of Delegates to the proposed Convention.