The politicians of New York, those of later as welt

4 As the action of the Committee which resulted in those Amendments was not generally noticed on the Journal or iu the Report, it is very evident that they were, generally, only verbal corrections, unimportant in character, and involving no distinguishing principles. But there were two amendments, proposed by Colonel Nathaniel Woodhnll and George Clinton respectively, which were rejected, although the the motions for amendment were supported, in each instance, by several memberB of the majority, as well as by the full force of the minority ; but because the principle involved in each of the proposed Amendments was distinctly declared in another of the Resolutions, the rejection of the proposition to repeat it, possessed no political significance whatever.

* Journal of the House, "Die Mercurij, 10 ho., A.M., the 8th March, "1775."

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as those of earlier periods, have always been unlike those of any other Colony, or State, or Country ; and in the matter of these declaratory Eesolutions, the spirit and terms of which were quite as radical in their character as could have been desired by the most advanced republican who was not an anarchist, the well-established reputation of those politicians was amply sustained -- every member of the majority of the Assembly, including James DeLancey, John Cruger, Benjamin Kissam, Crean Brush, Tsaac Wilkins, and Frederic Philipse, except John Coe, of Orangecounty, and Dirck Brinckerhoff, of Duchess-county, voted in favor of the adoption of them and, of course, in favor of the embodiment of their terms in an Address to the King ; while every member of the minority of the House, with Coe and Brinckerhoff of the majority, voted in opposition to the adoption of them. Factional and partisan bitterness, very often, produces such remarkable instances of the inconsistency, if not of the incomprehensibility, of mere politicians ; but history affords few, if any, such examples, among those who were really patriotic, as were afforded by John Thomas and Pierre Van Cortlandt, by Peter R.