It has suited those who have preferred to traduce New York and her General Assembly, however, to regard both the General Assembly and its papers as only favorable to the Home Government and antagonistic to the common cause.

1 Journal of the House, " Die Martis, 10 ho., A.M., the 31st January, " 1775."

2 111 the language of that period, the word " State," as it was used in this and similar connections, was the equivalent of the word "State- " ment," which, in such connections, is now employed.

3 Journal of the House, "Die Martis, 10 ho., A.M., the 31st January, " 1775.''

ber of the minority, on the day referred to, moved that certain specified letters, written by the Assembly's Committee of Correspondence, during the recess of the House, and urging the convention of a Congress of the Continent for the consideration of the grievances of the Colonies, 4 should be entered on the Journals of the House, and copies of them be sent to the newspapers, for publication; and, of course, " debates arose upon the said Motion," which was followed by the emphatic rejection of it, by a vote of nine, in the affirmative, against sixteen, in the negative -- Judge Thomas and Pierre Van Cortlaudt, of course, being among the former, and Colonel Philipse and Isaac Wilkins, of course, among the latter. 5

On the following day, [February 17], Colonel Nathaniel Woodhull, of Suffolk-county, also a prominent member of the minority, continued the factional strife, by offering a Resolution of Thanks to those gentlemen who had represented this Colony in the recent Congress, " for their faithful and judicious dis- " charge of the trust reposed in them, by the good " people of this Colony ; " and, of course, " debates " arose upon the said Motion ; " after which, by a vote of nine, in the affirmative, against fifteen, in the negative, it was rejected -- Judge Thomas being among the former, and Colonel Philipse and Isaac Wilkins being among the latter. 6