" It is the interest of all men, therefore, to seek for re-union with the "parent State. A safe Compact seems, in my poor opinion, to be now "tendered. Internal taxation to be left with ourselves. The right of "regulating Trade to be vested in Britain, where alone is found the "power of protecting it. I trust you will agree with me, that this is " the only possible mode of union. * * * *

"I am, Sir,, etc,,

"Mr. Pesn. "Gottverneur Morris."

It was never pretended, if our memory serves us correctly, that the writer of this letter was a democratic republican : our readers can easily determine, from his contemptuous words, while describing the unfranchised Mechanics and Working-men of this City, how little of a republican of any other class, how much of a believer of the political dogma of tho unqualified equality of all men, he was, notwithstanding what some historians, so called, have written of him.

In the same spirit, was that note written by James Rivington, of New York, and received by Henry Knox, of Boston, subsequently a General in the Army of the Revolution and Secretary of War under President Washington, and (in his own estimation) never one of the people, which note was detected by the revolutionary leaders in Boston, and communicated to the "Sons of Liberty," in New York, by note, dated 19 June, 1774. The words used by Rivington wore these: "You may rest assured that no non-hn-, n,.r non-ex-portation will be agreed upon "either here or at Philadelphia. The power over our crowd is no " longer in the hands of Sears, Lamb, and such unimportant persons, " who have for six years past, been the demagogues of a very turbulent " faction in this City ; but their power and mischievous capacity ex- "pired inshintly upon the election of the Committee of Fifty-one, iu "which there is a majority of inflexibly honest, loyal, and prudent "citizens."-- (ilfS letter of Thomas Young to John Lamb, '-Boston, 19th "June, 1774," in the "Lamb Papers," New York Historical Society's Library.)