Because the General Assemblies of the greater number of the Colonies, at that time, could not have elected Deputies to the proposed Congress, even if they had been willing to have done so -- the Governor having, in each case, the power of proroguing or dissolving the Assembly, which, in the greater number of instances, he would have certainly done-- the action of the Town of Providence, although well intended, could not result in the convention of a Congress ; and what was done by the Committee of Correspondence in Philadelphia, was not entitled to the honorable mention of it, which Frothingham and others have made, since it iimounted to nothing, either of approval or disapproval of the Newand judicious action, the Committee of Correspondence, in New York, offended those of the revolutionary clique, in that City, who had not been invited to places and seats in that Committee, and how much the revolutionary leaders and the revolutionary popu-

York proposition to convene a Congress. The honor, what there was of it, remains, therefore, with the Committee of Correspondence of New- York, as related in the text, of having originated the Congress, on the twenty-third of May, with the additional honor of having established the proposition for such a Congress, in the face of and notwithstanding the determined opposition of the Massachusetts-men, in Boston, led by Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and their well-eulogized associates.

The Committee of Correspondence of the Colony of Connecticut concurred iu the recommendation which the Committee in New York had made, on the fourth of June, (The Committee of Correspondence of the General Assembly of New York to the Committee of Correspondence of the Colony of Connecticut, " New York, June 24, 1774 ; ") the General Assembly of Khode Island did so, on the fifteenth of June, (Journal of the General Asssmbly, June 15, 1774 -- Records of Rhode Island, vii., 246 ;) the General Court of Massachusetts did so on the seventeenth of June, (Jourvol of the House of Representatives, June, 1774;) and the City of Philadelphia, as above Btated, did so on the eighteenth of June.