Philipse at their head, then appeared." In the Protest of the Inhabitants and Freeholders, subsequently published, it is stated, specifically, that when those from Captain Hatfield's Tavern entered the Courthouse, ",the numbers on each side seemed to be nearly " equal ; and both together might amount to two hundred or, at most, ' ' two hundred and fifty. ' ' Nearly a month after the publication of that Protest, and after he had secured the seat in the Continental Congress for which ho had so earnestly hankered -- his half-brother, Gouverneur, being then an aspirant to a seat in the proposed Provincial Congress, to which he was elected, on the following day -- Lewis Morris published an elaborate and very minute reply to that Protest, in which, although nearly every feature of the latter was bitterly controverted, he conveniently said nothing whatever of the number of those, of either faction, who were at the Plains ; and, therein, he emphatically acquiesced in what was said, on that subject, with so much precision, in the Protest.

not of his supporters, by saying there were among them " many tenants who were not entitled to vote," etc., -- they were recognized as respectable farmers, even by that particular Morris who aimed to belittle them; but, in the presence of such as he, with nothing but what he had inherited, to ensure to him even a nominal respectability, they were evidently expected to be no more than dumb dogs, even while their homes and their properties were put in jeopardy and the peace and happiness of their families endangered by the doings of those " better classes," before one of whom they then stood.