The opponents of the Meeting who assembled at the Widow Be La Montagnie's, on the third of March, issued a handbill, in which reasons for a postponement of the question were stated ; on the morning of the day on which the Meeting, was held, [March 6] a calm appeal, signed " A Freeman," and addressed " To the Inhabitants or New York," very forcibly urging a postponement of the questions, was published in # Gaine's New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, No. 1221, Monday, March 6, 1775; a more elaborate appeal and argument, to the same effect, addressed " To the respectable " Inhabitants of the City or New York," signed "A Citizen op New " York," and published in the same issue of that newspaper ; an elaborate reply to the last, signed " Another Citizen," and published in Holt's New-York Journal, Xo. 1670, New- York, Thursday, March 9, 1775- etc
WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
" 10th Day of May next ; and the neighbouring Col- " onies having already appointed Delegates for that " Purpose, we beg Leave to call your Attention to "that Subject, and to remark, that the Honour as " well as the Interest of the Province requires that " we also should be fully and properly represented.
" Influenced by these Considerations, this City "and County conceive it highly necessary that a " Provincial Convention should, without Delay, be " formed of Deputies from all the Counties, for the " sole Purpose of appointing, out of their Body, Delegates for the next Congress, and therefore have " already chosen their Deputies : They prefer this "Mode to any other, as it tends to unite the Counties, " and to preserve that Harmony between them so " essential to the Interest of our common Cause.