Samuel Seabury and Luke Babcock, Judges Jonathan Fowler and Caleb Fowler, and several other prominent persons, including Mayor Nathaniel Underbill, of the Borough of Westchester, and Philip Pell, of Pelham Manor. The patriotic meeting at White Plains was conducted with perfect decorum, and, in spite of the aggressive speech of Mr. Wilkins against "disorderly proceedings" and "unlawful committees and congresses," Colonel Morris and his adherents had the good taste to refrain from all violent or vindictive expressions or doings on that occasion. Also in his published report of the events of the day Colonel Morris abstained from language that could possibly give offense, confining himself to a dispassionate narrative of facts. But the " friends of government " were not so moderate. They caused an elaborate statement to be printed in the New York press, filled with animadversions of an exasperating nature. In this statement, which appeared in Rivington's paper on the 20th of April, the day after the battle of Lexington, it was charged that the meeting held at the court house had, by assuming (o represent the true sentiment of Westchester County, imposed upon the world and insulted the "loyal County of Westchester" in a most barefaced manner"; that it was "the act of a few individuals unlawfully assembled," and that it was well known that at least twothirds of the inhabitants of the county were "friends to order and government, and opposed to committees and all unlawful combinations." The ire of Colonel Morris was aroused by such reflections and allegations, and in a communication to the press published soon afterward he replied with great vigor and cutting satire, also subjecting the list of signers to a merciless analysis. " I shall pass over," said he, " the many little embellishments with which the author's fancy has endeavored to decorate his narrative; nor is it necessary to call in question the reality of that loyal enthusiasm by which it