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. Hildreth's History of the United States, New York : 1856, First SerieB, iii , 35, presented the facts as they really took place, giving to the Committee of Correspondence of New York the origination of the Congress ; and Leake's Memoir of General John Lamb, Albany : 1857 ; Dawson's Park and its Vicinity, New York : 1855, 33 ; McDonald and Blackburn's Southern History of the United States, Baltimore : 1869,170; and de Lancey's Notes on Jones's History of New York dv/ring the Revolutionary War, New York: 1879, i., 443, 444, follow that excellent example. Bancroft's History of the United States, original edition, vii,, 40, correctly yields the honor of having originated the Congress, to New York ; but, unaccountably, it assigns it, in New York, sometimes to an imaginary " old committee," which had ceased to exist when the Stamp-Act, which had called it into existence and to which its operations bad been limited, was repealed, eight years previously, and sometimes to the eight or ten men who styled themselves and who were known as t; the Sons of Liberty," all of whom who were members of the Committee of Correspondence, appointed at the Coffee-house, were notoriously in accord with the men of Boston, who advocated an immediate suspension of the Commerce of the Continent and opposed the proposition to call a Congress for the general relief of all the Colonies.