The eleventh Resolution of the Congress, referred to in the text, provided "that a Committee be chosen in every County, City, and ' ' Town, by those who are qualified to vote for Representatives in the " Legislature, whose business it shall be attentively to observe the con- "ductof all persons, touching this Association" [of Non- Importation, Non-Consumption, and Non- Exportation,]; "and when it shall be made " to appear to the satisfaction of a majority of any such Committee, that "any person within the limits of their appointment has violated "this Association" [whether he man have consented to it, or not] "that " such majority do forthwith cause the truth of the case to be published " in the Gazette, to the end that all such foes to the Rights of British "America may be publicly known and universally contemned, as the " enemies of American Liberty ; and, thenceforth, we respectively will "break off all dealings, with him or her."

The reader will judge how ill-adapted such a "smelling Committee" as was thus ordered, in every Town, must have been, to promote harmony among the Colonists, or to give support to those who were seeking a redress of the grievances of the Colonies and a restoration of harmony between the Colonies and the Mother Country.

2 Minutes of the Committee of Correspondence, "New York, November " 14, 1774 ; " Letter from the Committee of Correspondence to the Committee of Mechanics, "Committee Chamber, November 14, 1774."

The uncertaincies, if nothing else, of political office-seeking, and the tricks, if nothing else, of office-seekers, during that eventful period, may bo seen, although they may not be entirely understood, in a comparison of the contemptuons manner in which the aristocratic Committee had spumed the democratic Committee, when it was proposed that the latter should be consulted, in the nomination of the ticket for Members of the proposed Congress, (Minutes of the former, June 29 and July 4, 1774,) with the eagerness with which the aristocratic nominees on that ticket, very Boon afterwards, repudiated the fundamental principle maintained