It will be seen that James Duane did not disgrace himself or his name by placing the latter, with those of his tour aristocratic associates on the ticket for Delegates to the proposed Congress, on the letter through which those four bartered the little of political and personal integrity and the modicum of unselfish principles which they respectively possessed, for a small mess of very thin official pottage ; and, in that instance, his backwardness was honorable and timely, since there is every reason for the belief that, at that time, he was not master of himself; that he had, already, been purchased by another ; and that, then, he was, in fact, only the servant of his master.

History has revealed 6 what, otherwise, would have remained, concealed, in the files of the Colonial Land Papers, in the Secretary's Office, in Albany, 7 concern-

York during the Revolutionary War, (i., 449-467,) which has been prepared with great labor, and which contains carefully-made copies of many of the original handbills and placards which were, then, scattered throughout the city.

< Philip Livingston, John Alsop, Isaac Low, and John Jay to Abraham Brasher, Theophilus Anthony, Francis Fan Di/ck, Jeremiah JfMt, and Christopher Duyckinck, " New York, July 26, 1774."

6 Proceedings of " a Meeting of a number of Citizens conrened at the " House of Mr. Marriner," at which the nominations by the Committee of Correspondence were acquiesced in, by those who assumed to represent the unfranchised inhabitants of the City, "New York 27 July " 1774." -.•■•-.