1 Journal of Ihe Provincial Congrat, " 4 ho., P.M., September 1st, "1775."

- Compare the disclaimers which accompanied the Astociatioiu which were sent out, for signatures, (joayet 270, 271, aiUe;) with tlie penalties which weresubsoqucntly iinposeU on those who had decUued to sign those Aisocialioiui, in the orders issued for their disarumment, (jiaije 288, <iM<e ,) in this remarkable enactment ; and with the multitude of arbitrary arrests and painful imprisonments, throughout the Colony, with which the i>age« of the records of the doings of the revolutionary faction so peculiarly abound.

3 We are sensible that the letter of this enactment affonls a warrant for nothing else than a sequestration of tlie properties of tliose who were proscribed ; but the spirit of it was seen in the action of those Committees who wi-re, by this enactment, made niiistei^ of the great Inxly of the Colonists, when those t'onimittee.s, as will be seen, hereafter, not only sequestrated, but contiscatcd and sold, the properties of those who were personally obnoxious to them.

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they possessed a conceded interest; that no appeal from the judgment of such a local revolutionary tribunal, too often controlled by personal or family quarrels* or by ecclesiastical or neighborhood feuds or by foreign interferences, was provided for or allowed ; and that the dictates of his conscience and the oath of his office, if he held an office, as far as these sh(,uld assert his duty to his Sovereign and to the Colonial and Home Governments, must be sternly disregarded and suppressed, by every one.