As the inliabitants of Staten Island, and those of Queens, Westchester, and Duchess-counties were su]iposed to have been especially conservative and, consequently, had been most terribly outraged by the dominant faction, it Wiis reasonably supposed, by those who were familiar witli the fai t<<, that retJiliation if not loyalty would induce these, especially, to declare against those who had oppressed and ontraged them ; but the peaceful disposition of the fanners of lower Orange and Duchess and Weslchester-counties, tlieir simple domestic habits and cuutrollingloveof home, and their almost universal contentment with their oKl-time pivsperity and comfort and happiness, were not taken into consideration ; and, a-s the expeilition of the Pho nix and the Rose ascertjiined and as General Howe subsecpiently learned, these were more powerful than any other consideration-- the farmers referred to, jireferred to endure the hardships to which they might be subjected, al home, instead of abandoning their homes and wives and children, of throwing themselves into what wouliHiave been new and untried associations ami inethodsand exjieriences, and of being subjected to other lianlshiiw, in the Held ur in yai-risimx, as severe, if not more severe, as those from which they would have thus escaped.

General How e very well said, after experience had taught him the fac t.s, Miu h might be said upon the state of loyalty and the principles "of loyalty, in America. Aime are loyal from principle ; vmiii/ from in- "terest; manii from resentment; manii wish for peace, but are indiffer- " ent which side prevails ; and there are others who wish success to Great " Hritaiu, from a recollectiou of the happiness they enjoyed under her "government." (Olisermli'iiis ttpon a jxtmpMel entitled Letters to a Noblenuiu, 311.)