Who, among historical students, does not know that one of the most virulent of those who persecuted the loyal and law abiding Colonists, in Colonial New York -- a very thinly disguised monarchist who was thus figuring as a most zealous republican -- had been largely prompted to play a part in the politics of the perio<l which was radically distasteful to himself, in order that he might, thereby, revengefully oi>- pose and {H-rsecute the friends and family of the two young Imlies, sisters, who had successively preferred more graceful and more companionable, if not as mentally and scholastically deserving, suitors for their hands and fortunes ?

^Tbis sentence has bi^cn v\Titten with a perfect understanding »f what is stjkteil in the text, com-eniing tliost! who p;u>sed from Connecticut into Westchester-county, to a^ist the local Committees, in that (Aiiinty, in their work of outrage and robbery. Greenwich, iStamford, Kidge field, Danbury, Wilton, New (^amuin, and the other border Towns

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merely incideDtal allusions, left among the well-concealed records of those times, to say nothing of those more startling evidences which went, unrecorded, into the graves of those who had been thus plundered and outraged, when the latter were carried to their last earthly homes, to show that the Drakes and the Thomases, the Odells and the Martlings, the Lockwoods and the Dutchers, and those who were associated with them, "patriotically "supporting what was called " the glorious cause of Liberty," were experts in ruthless barbarism, and entirely worthy of thecrowns of infamy which history has awarded to more distinguished, but not more accomplished, inquisitors and despots.