Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution
* Holt and Gaine stated the vote to have been eight hundred and twenty-live in favor of the appointment of Deputies, and one hundred and sixty-three in opposition : ltivington stated the vote was nine hundred and twenty-nine, in favor, and one hundred and forty-three in opposition.
They all agree that many voters declined to vote -- Holt and Gaine said, because their votes were seen to have been unnecessary : Rivingtou said "the friends of the old five Delegates, (finding that they were not " permitted to vote for them as Delegates) almost all declined giving " their voices at all."
They evidently suBpected the managers of the' movement were seeking to accomplish some mischief against those "old five Delegates;" and it may be that Isaac Low, in his declination to appear as a candidate, before the proposed Convention, was influenced by that evidently "crooked" movement. They preferred to vote directly for Delegates, instead of leaving the choice to an irresponsible Convention of politicians, who were evidently in the interest of other aspirants to Congressional honors and emoluments.
WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
There is an abundance of evidence, of unquestionable truthfulness, showing that what has been represented to have been a conflict of rival parties, patriotically representing antagonistic political principles, on the occasion referred to, was, in fact, like all the political contests which had preceded it, during the preceding twelvemonth, only personal, factional, and local, in its origin and character ; that it was not, really, concerning the great questions arising from the Colonial policy of the Home Government and the Grievances of the Colonies, relative to which there was very little diversity of sentiment throughout the City ; and that, in fact, nothing else were involved in the questions which were submitted to the Meeting, than the local and minor questions concerning the control of the political affairs of the Colony itself and, especially, concerning those who should occupy the places of authority, and influence, and emoluments, therein.