New York : 122 ; Lossing's Field-book of the devolution, New York: 1851, i., 6(17- Bancroft's History of the United States, original edition, Boston : 1858, vii. 37 ; the same, centenary edition, Boston : 1876, iv., 323 ; Frothiugham's ' Rise of the Republic, Boston : 1872, 321, 322 ; Lodge's History of the English Colonies, New York : 1881, 489 ; etc.

Lemu'lim, (History of the United States ;) Lossing, (History of the United Slates, 1854 ;) and Ridpath, (History of the United States ;) made no allusion to this very important Meeting.

specifically and definitely laid down, and in no other line whatever, leaving nothing to the choice or the better judgment or the existing circumstances of any others, any where ; that even their New England ingenuity contrived no other remedy lor their merely local grievance than that specidc suspension of the entire agricultural and manufacturing industries of all the Colonies, except to the extent of supplying the demand for the productions of their industries for home-consumption only, as well as the specific suspension of all the Commerce of all the Colonies, except that with the French Colonies of St. Pierre and Miquelon, on the coast of Newfoundland -- with which, by the bye, so large a portion of the smuggling by Massachusetts-men was, then and subsequently, carried on 2 -- all of which, without any possible abatement, they definitely proposed and positively insisted on ; and that, in their complacency, they dared, also, to assert, if not to threaten, that the consequence of disobedience to their audacious proposition, in any of the Colonies, would be the triumphant rise of Fraud, Power, and the most odious Oppression, over Right, Justice, Social Happiness, and Freedom. 3 In short, the principles and " patriotic " impulses of those men of Boston began and ended in the proposed promotion of nothing else than their own individual and local interests, at the expense of the entire prostration of business, internal as well as external, except that of Smuggling, from one extremity to the other of the Atlantic seaboard -- the warp, the woof, and the filling of their neatly woven web were, in fact, nothing else, whatever, than unadulterated, audacious selfishness; and that selfishness, in that particular connection, was seen, more distinctly than it had previously been seen, when, a few weeks afterwards, the alms of the Continent, which had been sent for the particular relief of the sick and suffering poor of Boston, whom, it was said, the Port-Bill had