" Resolved : That the thanks of this country is " due to the Delegates who composed the late Con- " gress, for the essential services they have rendered " to America, in general ; and that this Resolve be " forthwith published."

We are told, also, by the Chairman of the Meeting, that, "after the business of the day was thus con- " eluded, the people gave three huzzas for our gra- " cious Sovereign, 2 and dispersed, quickly, without the " least disorder." 3

1 As Jonathan Piatt and Colonel Holmes did not accept the appointment, and as only six took then- seats in the Convention, the majority which was necessary to cast the vote of the County was reduced to four ; and, thus, the control of the Delegation was retained hy those who went from Westchester, Eastchester, and Rye.

2 The practice of all, at that period and subsequently, on all such occasions as that referred to in the text, will sufficiently indicate to the reader, that the enthusiasm for the King which was displayed, as much by one faction as by the other, at the White Plains, on that eventful April day, was due quite as much to what had been drunk at the two TavernB, before either of those factions had gone to the Courthouse, as to the love for the King which either of them really possessed. But the Chairman of the Meeting kindly furnished conclusive evidence on the subject, when he wrote, •* much pains, I confess, were, on that day, •* taken, to make temporary enthusiasts, and with other more eshilara- *' ting spirit than the spirit of loyalty." -- (Lewis Morris to the Public^ "Moreisania, May 7, 1775.")