Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 322* 323, ostentatiously presented what was done in Massachusetts and "the ' 'other New England Colonies," and then said with questionable integrity as he was acquainted with the facts, « the sentiment and determination "of the patriots south of New England were represented in thepro- « ceedings of the Virginia meeting, " which he de 8 cribed,at considerable length, withbut making the slightest allusion to the earlier proceedings of Pennsylvania and New York, where the Congress certainly originated Gordon's History of the American Revolution, London: 1788, i, 362 correctly assigned the origination of the Congress to the Comm'ittee of Cor"

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lace of Boston were also offended by it, are well known to the student of the history of that period * -- how much, also, that action of the Committee, in New York, has been made the text of misrepresentation and abuse, whenever it has been referred to, in the historical literature of New England, from that day to this, is known to all who are acquainted with the peculiar peculiarities of that well-filled class of the productions of American home-industry. 2

respondence in New York ; but, without the slightest shadow of truth, it stated that the Committee was controlled by Isaac Sears, who was one of the minority of that body ; and that it was opposed by "the To- "ries," not one of which party was then a member of the Committee. Bamsay's History of the United States, London : 1791, i., 114, correctly assigned the origination of the Congress to New York ; but it inaccurately stated that it was done "at the first meeting of the inhabitants," instead of at the first meeting of the Committee which the inhabitants had chosen, a few days previously, for their political leaders.