The address at this election of a body of Federalists, which, it is asserted, had very little influence with the main force, is here recalled, because on the list of signatures to it the first is that of a greatly respected citizen of Mamaroneck, Peter Jay Munro, a lawyer of much eminence in this county, and because the list includes also that of James A. Hamilton, son of General Hamilton, long a resident of Tarrytown, on the Hudson.

The significance of this paper was not only its open assault on the friends of Governor Clinton for their devotion to him, but in this galvanic disj^lay of the death scene of the distinguished party to which they had belonged, the signers sought their own future political advancement.

It is proper here to say that for two successive terms the Third Congressional District of the State, which consisted of Rockland and Westchester, was ably and faithfully represented by Mr. Caleb Tompkins, of White Plains, and that for three years, from 1820 to'1823, the position of County Judge was held by William Jay, son of the Chief Justice.

The great political event which now falls under notice is the assembling of the convention ordered for

the revision of the State Constitution, and the presence in it of three distinguished citizens of the county, all members of its bar -- Peter A. Jay, Peter J. Munro and Jonathan Ward. It would seem that whatever the motive elsewhere, the political did not enter in the selections thus made in Westchester County.