As the several Delegations voted as units, the votes of the several Counties having been cast in accordance with the determination of the majority of the Delegates of each who were then present, the votes of individual Delegates, unless in instances of formal dissent, are not recorded ; but the conservatism of the organized Congress, as an aggregate, was seen, immediately after the organization of that body and the adoption of its necessary Rules of Order, on the first day of the Session, when Isaac Low, of the City of New York, who is already so well known to the reader, had commenced the work of centralizing all of political authority and power which were within the Colony, except those of the local police, in the Continental Congress, a work which has been persistently continued until this day, by men of the same classes of society and politics, and for the same purposes ; and when, very promptly and very aptly, Gouverneur Morris, of the County of Westchester, who was already conspicuously notorious for his contemptuous disregard of the personal and political rights of the unfranchised masses of the Colonists, who were only "poor reptiles" in his aristocratic vocabulary, 2 had seconded the motion. The Resolution which Isaac Low had thus offered, was in these words :

2 See his letter to Mr. Perm, pages 11, 12, ante.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

"Resolved, As the opinion of this Congress, that im- " plicit obedience ought to be paid to every recom- " mendation of the Continental Congress, for the gen- " eral regulation of the associated Colonies ; but this " Congress is competent to and ought, freely, to deliberate and determine on all matters relative to the " internal police of this Colony." 1