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." '

Such a Resolution, so evidently in the interest of the master-s[)irils of the revolt and in that of the most ultra of the aristocracy of the (Jolony, at the same time so radically subversive of those fundamental principles ol' government which were professed to have been the basis of the existing Rebellion against the Mother Country, very reasonably excited immediate alarm; and, notwithstanding the Delegates were scarcely warm in their seats, the two ill-concealed monarchists who were temporarily masquerading, within the Provincial Congress, as republicans, and tho.se, of the same class, elsewhere, in whose behalf the Resolution had been offered, were very ctrectually snubbed -- on a motion of John Aforin Scott, the very able leader of the handful of ultra-revolutionists, seconded by David C'larkson, both of the City of New York, the liesohition was defeated, only Richmondcounty having voted in favor of it,- neither the mover nor the seconder of it having received the support of the County of whiidi he professed to have been a proper representative.'

Tiie signal rebuke which the not yet corrupted "country gentlemen," members of the Provincial Congress of New York, had thus given to those who had pro|)o.sed to make the Colony of New York and all which it possessed subject, in all its relations, except in the local [)ower of police, to a foreign body over whom neither the individual Colonists nor the aggregated Colony could possibly have exercised the slightest control, and by whom both the individual Colonists and the Colony in its entirety would have been subjected to an absolutely desi)otic control by those, of other Colonies, who already envi(!d the rising greatness of New York, apjicars to have been etlective, in that direction ; but, two days afterwards, the little ultra-revolutionary cli(iue, within the Congress, taking courage from the evidently independent si)irit which had been manifested by the rural Dele-