Inspired by the strength and the spirit of the Meeting in the Fields, and led in their opposition to the majority of the Committee, by all the old-time experienced popular leaders, the " Inhabitants of the City "and County,'' of every class, met, agreeably to the published request of the Committee of Correspondence, at the City Hall, at noon, on the day after those Inhabitants had assembled in the Fields ; but they did not confirm the Committee's Nominations, for Deputies to the proposed Congress ; and the utmost bad feeling, between the aristocratic majority of the Committee and the great body of the plebeian Tradesmen, Artisans, and Workingmen, whom it had betrayed, prevailed throughout the city. 2

It is not within the purposes of this work, however, to present a narrative of the various movements and counter-movements of the rival factions of the confederated party of the Opposition, again disunited, in their determined struggle for supremacy -- nominally, for the establishment of their respective principles, in opposition to or in support of a general "Suspen- "sion of Trade," but, really, for places on the ticket for Delegates to the proposed Congress of the Continent -- which was continued, without ceasing, from the seventh until the twenty-seventh of July ; 3 and

1 Proceedings of the Meeting, appended to the Minutes of the Committee of Correspondence, " New York, July 7, 1774."

See, alBo, Holt's New- York Journal, No. 1644, New-York, Thursday, July 7, 1774; Gaine's New-York Gazette and Mercury, No. 1185, New- York, Monday, July 11, 1774; Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 65, New- York, Thursday, July 14, 1774 ; Lientenant-gocernor Colden to Governor Tryon, " Spring Hill, 2nd August, 1774;" Hamilton's Life of Alexander Hamilton, i , 21-23 ; Dawson's Park and its Vicinity, 34-37 ; Dunlap's History of New- York, i., 453 ; Bancroft's History of the United States, original edition, vii., 79, 80 ; the same, centenary edition, iv., 355, 356 ; de Lancey's Notes to Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War. i., 451.