The well-considered and, under the circumstances, the judicious determination of the majority of the General Assembly, to unite in the general opposition to the Colonial policy of the Home Government, in the general demand for a redress of the assumed grievances of the Colonies, and in the generally expressed desire to restore the harmony between the Colonies and the Mother Country, which the infliction of those grievances had 'disturbed, without, however, recognizing the existence of any other opposition thereto, in any other person, in any other organization, or in any

1 Journal of the Home, "Die Martis, 10 ho., A.M., the 2lst February "1775J;" Lieutenant-Governor Coldento General Gage, "New Yohk 20th " Febry, 1776."

2 Journal of the House, "Die Jovis, 10 ho., A.M., the 23'd February, " 1775." Lieutenant-governor Colden to General Gage, "New YoiiK, 20th "Febryl775;" the same to the Earl of Dartmouth, " New York, 1st March " 1775,"

"Speeches, made by Brush and Wilkins, on that occasion, may be seen in Force's American Archives, Fourth Series, i., 1200-1297, the former reprinted from Rmngtont New-York Gazetteer, No. 98, New-York Thursday, March 2, 1775 ; the latter from the same paper, No. 103, New- York, Thursday, April 6, 1775. Students of the history of the Revolution in the Colonies will be well paid fur the time occupied in a careful perusal of those Speeches, in connection with the other literature of that subject, published during that period.

♦ Journal of the House, "Die Jovis, 10 ho., A.M., the 23d of February, " 1775 ; " Lieutenant-governor Colden to the Earl of Dartmouth, " New York, " 1st March, 1775."