Only culprits " confess" a wrong-doing ; and with this "confession " of one of the principal offenders, on the occasion referred to, the reader will be enabled to understand how small an amount of genuine patriotism there was, in such a crowd, no matter for whom it hurrahed ; and how small the price was with which that crowd had been purchased, to further the purposes of either "the friends of the Government" or those of the revolutionary faction - may he not be enabled to understand, also, something more of those who originated and fostered the revolutionary spirit, in the Colonies, and something more of the means which they employed, call them what yon may, than those, claiming to be *' historians," with a very few really honorable exceptions, have hitherto told to him ?

One of the most important political movements in which New York

Although no action, on that subject, appears to have been taken by the Meeting, its master-spirit and Chairman, in his official capacity, appears to have continued the work for which the Meeting had been convened, completing it before he left the White Plains, by preparing an official narrative of the origin of the Meeting ; of the Caucus which had " recom- " mended " it ; of its Proceedings, when convened ; and of its noisy loyalty to that "gracious Sove- " reign " whose recognized authority it had so boldly assailed. That narrative was duly published ; and, at the expense of repeating some matters of which mention has been already made, as an important portion of the historical literature of Westchestercounty, a place is made for it, in this work. It waa in the following words :