period of the existence of that Congress, to secure that advantage and, thereby, if |)()ssible, to defeat the motion -- "at the request of the Deputies of the City " and County of Albany and the Counties of " Ulster, Sufiblk, and Charlotte," it was " ORr)ERED, " That the same be deferred." *

Although the Rule reipiired the Congress to resume the consideration of the motion on "the next day," the Rule was disregarded ; ' and, on the following day [Jii/ii' 1, 1775,] Mr. Kissam, with the leave of the Congress, withdrew the motion, "in order to " amend it." "

On the second of June, the amended motion was submitted by Mr. Kissam, " in the words following, "to wit: Forasmuch as a reconciliation between " (ireat Britain and these Colonies, on constitutional

principles, is essential to the well-being of both " countries, and will prevent the horrors of a Civil " War, in which this Continent is now about to be " involved : I move that a Committee be appointed " to pre])are a plan of such accommodation, and re- " port the same to this House."

The revolutionary faction, led by John Morin Scott and Alexander JIcDougal, resolutely opposed the motion ; and the last-named, seconded by Abraham Brasher, moved (or the jjrevious (juestion, in order to defeat it; but only Ulster, Orange, Suffolk, and Duchess-counties favored the motion for the previous question ; and it was defeated -- Philip Van Cortlandt, differing from all his associates from Westchester-county, voting with the revolutionary faction. The motion of Mr. Kissam was then carried, without any di.ssent, except that of Philij) Van Cortlandt, who recorded that dissent on the Joarnnl of tlic Coin/irss.