It is clear, as we understand the record, that Alexander McDougal offered it, for consideration, only at the Meeting on the twentyseventh of June.

2 This portion of the Resolution evidently looked for the establishment of a Provincial Congress or Convention, in which should be vested supreme and arbitrary power, without limitation, over the persons and properties and actions and thoughts and convictions of every one within the Colony ; overthrowing all Government ; cancelling all Rights of Persons and Properties ; and ' establishing, in their stead, an active scourging Despotism. Such an one was, Boon afterwards, established ; but,'just at the time under consideration, the master spirits of the majority of the Committee had not secured the places to which they were aspiring ; and, for that reason, they were not, then, ready to concur in that revolutionary, ultra revolutionary, measure.

» Minutes of the Adjournal Meeting of the Committee, " New-York, June " 29, 1774."

jected, by a formal vote of thirteen in support of it and twenty-four in opposition thereto. Immediately afterwards, without a division, on the motion of Theophilact Bache, seconded by John De Lancey, the Committee resolved "to nominate five persons, to " meet in a general Congress, at the time and place " which shall be agreed on by the other Colonies ; and " that the Freeholders and Freemen of the City and " County of New York be summoned to appear at a " convenient place, to approve or disapprove of such " persons, for this salutary purpose ; also, that this " Committee write Circular Letters to the Super- " visors of the several Counties, informing them what " we have done, and to request of them to send such " Delegates as they may choose, to represent them in "Congress" -- a Resolution which was so general in its terms, that, in a body which - was composed, exclusively, of those who, politically, were in opposition to the Home Government, there was no room for opposition to it, notwithstanding its silence concerning the Committee of Mechanics and the claim which had been made in its behalf ;* but it was, also, one which laid the foundation for further and very important action, in which the bitterness of feeling, concerning the distribution of the proposed offices, which continued to exist between the rival factions of the con-