" TT7E the subscribers do hereby make this VV public Declaration, That whereas we and several others in Westchester-County, having signed a certain Number of Resolves, which at the Time of our said signing, we deemed Constitutional, and as having a Tendency to promote the Interest of our Country ; but since, upon mature Deliberation, and more full Knowledge of the Matter, find not only injurious to our present Cause, but likewise offensive to our Fellow Colonists. We do therefore thus publicly testify our Abhorrence of the same, and declare ourselves Friends to the Colonies, and ever ready cheerfully to exert ourselves in the Defence and Preservation of the same.

" Jonathan Fowler, Esq.

" George Cornwell, Esq. " 29th April, 1775."

As both the signers of that recantation were evidently intelligent men, one of them having been, at that time, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County, it is not probable that they had signed those Resolves -- no mention having been made of the Declaration and Protest -- without having understood the effect of their action on "the common cause:"

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and the offence which they had given to their neighbors, or to such of them as could inflict injury on them or on their property, was clearly the cause which produced their recantation.

The second of those acts of terrorism, to which reference has been made, was that in the case of Isaac Wilkins, that leading Member of the General Assembly of the Colony, in its contest with the Home Government; that very able "A. W. Farmer " who, with his pen, had aroused so much indignation ; and that spokesman of the protestants, at the Meeting at the White Plains, with whom the reader is well acquainted. That gentleman, in order to secure his personal safety, was compelled to abandon his home and famiiy, and to take refuge in England.