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.
^Jouriuil u/ the I'rociiicUil C'oiiyrau, "5 ho., P. SI., May £i'^.''
gations, in the former vote, and hoping that the same spirit of antagonism to the monarchical iiu^linations, which those " country gentlemen " had then ])resented, would rest, ])eacefully and usefully, on an inclination in the opposite direction, made a movement, within the Congress, in behalf of Revolution and Rt;;- l)ellioii and a Civil War.
As the Colony of New York had not yet given that l)ublic testimony of its entire and cordial accession to the confederacy of the revolted Colonies which had been given to it by the other Colonies, in the express approbation, by each, of the proceedings of the Continental Congress of 1774, of which proceedings detailed mention has been made in other jiortions of this narrative, an attempt was made, in the Provincial Congress, on the twenty-fifth of May, to supply that previously omitted ratification and approval of the proceedings of that already notable Congress, and, by that ratification and approval, to carry the Colony of New York within the circle of the confederacy of the revolt, and to make her subject to influences and obligations from which she had jireviously been free.