These have been consequently presented, as briefly, however, as was consistent with perspicuity ; and a more complete, and precise, and accurate understanding of the details of the revolution of sentiments within Westchestercounty, as portions of that more extended revolution, throughout the Colony and the Continent, "in the " minds and hearts of the people," 2 it is believed, will, therefrom, be more readily and more certainly, if not more permanently, assured to the greater number of readers who shall resort to these pages.

Without the slightest indication of any concern because of the humiliating defeat to which it had been subjected, in the abandonment of one of the principal of its peculiar and emphatically declared principles, and in the acceptance, in the place of that abandoned principle, by its own nominees, of one of the peculiarly antagonistic principles of those whom it had persistently endeavored to silence and suppress, on the day after the election of the Delegates to the proposed Congress, \Jidy 29,] the Committee of Correspondence in New York addressed a second Circular Letter to the County Committee, where there was one, or to the Treasurer, where there was no Com-

2 "An History of Military Operations, from April 19,' 1775, to Septem- ' ber 3, 1783, is not an History of the American Revolution, any more ' than the Marquis of Quincy's Military History of Louis XIV, though 'much esteemed, is a History of the Reign of that Monarch. The ' Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people, and in the ; ' Union of the Colonies, both of which were substantially effected before ■' hostilities commenced."-- {Letter from Mm Adams to J^didiah Morse, :t Quincy, November 29, 1815.")