The second of those acts of terrorism, to which reference has been made, was that in the case of Isaac ^Vilkins, that leading Member of the General Assembly of the ColoTiy, in its contest with the Home Government; that very able "A. W. Farmer " who, with his pen, had aroused so much indignation ; and that spokesman of the protestants, at the Meeting at the White Plains, with whom the reader is well acquainted. That gentleman, in order to secure his personal safc-ty, was compelled to abandon his home and family, and to take refuge in England. On the €ve of his dejjarture, while he was in the City of New York, he wrote the following touching address to his countrymen, which has been carefully copied from Rivington's Xew- York Gazetteer, No. 108, New-York, Thui-sday, May 11, 1775 :

■"My Countrymen:

" Before I leave America, the land I love, and in " which is contained everything that is valuable and " dear to me, my wife, my children, my friends, and ^'property; permit me to make a short and faithful " declaration, which I am induced to do neither "through fear, nor a consciousness of having acted "wrong. An honest man, and a Christian, hath noth- ^'ing to apprehend from this world. God is my judge, " and God is my witness, that all I have done, written, " or said, in relation to the present unnatural dispute "between Great Britain and her Colonies, proceeded '■' froni an honest intention of serving my country. " Her welfare and prosperity were the objects towards •" which all my endeavours have been directed. They "are still the sacred objects which I shall ever stead- " ily and invariably keep in view : And when in " England, all the influence that so inconsiderable " a man as I am, can have, shall be exerted in her " behalf