It will be seen that on neither of these Committees was there a single member of the minority of the House, notwithstanding the Resolution on which the first-named of those Committees was appointed originated with a leading member of that faction, and notwithstanding, also, both the Resolutions pursuant to which all the Committees were appointed, had been adopted in the Assembly by an unanimous vote, every member of each of the two factions, in temporary harmony and good-will, having united in approving and supporting them -- an evident result of the bitter factional feeling which had been aroused, first by the evidently dishonorable conduct of the minority, in springing upon the Assembly the Resolution which was offered by Colonel Ten Broeck, on the twentysixth of January, for taking into consideration the Proceedings of the Congress of the Colonies, while a " Call of the House," asked for by itself and for its

2 Vide pages 50, 51, ante.

sjbnnut! of the House, "Die Jovis, 10 ho., A.M., the 9th of March, "1775."

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peculiar advantage, was pending ; ' and, subsequently, by the peculiarly factional proceedings of the minority, in the presentation of Resolution after Resolution, only for the promotion of Revolution ; and in its dishonorable opposition, while the Assembly was considering the State of the Grievances and the series of declaratory Resolutions, to all of which proceedings reference has been herein made. 2

On the sixteenth of March, Isaac Wilkins, from the Committee appointed to prepare it, reported " the " Draft of a Petition to the King ; " and, immediately afterwards, Crean Brush, from the Committee appointed to prepare it, reported " a Draft of a Memorial to the Lords." During the same day, James De Lancey, from the Committee appointed to prepare it, reported " the Draft of a Representation and Bemon- "strance to the Commons of Great Britain ; " and the Assembly promptly referred all those papers, for consideration, to a Committee of the Whole House. 3