Graham e, (History of the United States, London: 1836, iv., 349,) said, "At New " York the members and activity of the Tory party restrained the Assembly and the people at large from publicly expressing their senti, " ments with regard to the treatment of Massachusetts ;" although, in truth, the friends of the Home Government were, then, so greatly in the minority that they did nothing whatever to restrain the popular feelings ; while the utterances of both the Committee of Correspondence and the General Assembly were as unequivocally antagonistic to the Home Government's Colonial policy, as anything which appeared elsewhere. He made no allusion whatever to either the Caucus or the Meeting at the Coffee-house. Hildreth (History of the United States, First Series, iii., 36) said that the old Committee of the " Sons of Liberty " "was dissolved and a new one elected," without alluding to either the Caucus or the Meeting at the Coffee-houBO ; although, in fact, the Committee of Correspondence of an early date had ceased to exist when the Stamp-Act was repealed ; and neither that nor any other Committee was alluded to, in the slightest degree, during the proceedings now under consideration ; notwithstanding those who had composed the Committee, in their individual capacities, in many instances, are known to have participated in both the Caucus and the Meeting at the Coffee-house. Bancroft (History of the United States, original edition, vii., 41 ; the same, centenary edition, iv., 326) made " the old Committee " of " the Sons of