About the same time that this letter appeared, there was a movement, in the vicinity of the White Plains, to obtain a nominal approval, if no more, of the action, the revolutionary action, of the Committee of the City of New York ; but if what was said of the result of the effort by those who were opposed to the movement, without contradiction, may be believed, only " three or four persons in the White Plains " participated in it ; and, practically, it was a failure.

Very soon after the end of the movement referred to, however, there was a counter-movement, in the same vicinity, in which a Declaration was circulated and signed by the Freeholders and principal Inhabitants, in which the conservatism of those who signed it was distinctly asserted. As a part of the earlier literature of the Revolution, in Westchester-county, we have thought that Declaration possesses sufficient of interest to entitle it to a place in this narrative. It was in these words, very carefully copied from the original publication, in Rivington's New- York Gazetteer, No. 91, New- York, Thursday, January 12, 1775:

"Sir,

"To the PRINTER.

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1 the subscribers, freeholders and inhabit- '• ants in the White Plains, in the county '" of Westchester, think it our duty to our King and " country, to declare, that we have never given our " consent to any Resolves touching the disputes with " the mother country, nor are we any ways concerned " in any measures entered into relative to them. We " are rather induced to do this, because we under- '" stand, that three or four persons in the White " Plains, have taken upon them to declare to the " Committee at New-York, the consent of the " inhabitants of the White Plains to the resolutions " entered into, in New- York, and their acquiescence "with the measures taken there; when the major " part of the few people who attended the meeting, " did not choose to be concerned in the matter.