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-

^ Jfittni'il ttf lliif PritriiirUtl Cinnjn'ns^ **^> ho., P.M., May 2:iii.'*

-The vote of IlichinoiKl-ooiiiity, in tliis t-arJy inBtjinoc, in very remarkable, eHpecially when it m coiiHiilerud in eoiinertion with the later instances of tliut Coiiiity's want of syiniiatliy with l>oth the Continental (?ongres.s anil tliose wlio enf;inei*re<l tliat nolahh^ Iiody.

This vote also all'orils a li'Siuin of tlie gri ati st si;;niru ance, illustnitive of tlio eflu);!s of that ill-consiilere<l policy of nniforniity in political opinions, enforceil liy a military [Hjwer, which the Provincial Connresn, in it." later anil more corrupt ilayd, ailopteil anil enforceil -- hy the ailoption unil enforcement of such an extremely violent policy, insteail of one in which conciliation and loi-al peace niight have Iwen the more prominent features, the inhaliilantii.of Kichmonil county were violently rei«'lleil, by the ultra-revolutionists, iw othei-s like-situateil wi re similarly repelleil, coiniwlliiiy; them to s<!ek first, protection, anil, next, fellowship, anuint^ (hose with whom they had, previously, hail no syinfMithy.