As the several Delegations voted as units, the votes of the several Counties having been cast in accordance with the d(!ternnnation of the majority of the Delegates of each who were then present, the votes of individual Delegates, unless in instances of formal dissent, are not recorded ; but tlie conservatism of the organized Congress, as an aggregate, was seen, immediately after the organization of that body and the adoi)tion of its necessary /iii/c>! of Ortlvr, on the first day of the Session, when Isaac Low, of the City of New York, who is already so well known to the reader, had commenced tlie work of centralizing all of political authority and power which were within the Colony, except those of the local police, in the Continental Congress, a work which has been persistently continued until this day, by men of the same classes of society and i)olitics, and for the same purl)oses; and when, very promptly and very aptly, Gouverneur Morris, of the County of Westchester, who was already conspicuously notorious for his contemptuous disregard of the personal and political rights of the unfranchised masses of the Colonists, who were only " [)oor rei)tiles " in his aristocratic vocabulary,- had seconded the motion. The Resolution which Isaac Low had thus offered, was in these words :

' Vide page V!U7, aiite.

2.Sce liis letter to Mr. Penn, pages 187, 188, ante.

THI<: AMKRK^AN REVOLUTION, 1774-1788.

"Resolvkd, As the opinion of this Congress, that im- " Illicit ohedience ought to he paid to every reeoni- " nienilation of the Continental C/ongress, for tiie gen- " eral regulation of the associated Colonies; but this " Congress is conijietent to and ought, freely, to de- " liberate and determine on all matters relative to the " internal police of this Colony." '