1 Journal of the Provincial Congress, " 4 ho., P.M., September 1st, "1775."

2 Compare the disclaimers which accompanied the Associations which were sent out, for signatures, {gages 94, 95, ante ;) with the penalties which were subsequently imposed ou those who had declined to sign those Associations, in the orders issued for their disarmament, {gage 112, ante;) in this remarkable enactment ; and with the multitude of arbitrary arrests and painful imprisonments, throughout the Colony, with which the pages of the records of the doings of the revolutionary faction so peculiarly abound.

3 We are sensible that the letter of this enactment affords a warrant for nothing else than a sequestration of the properties of those who were proscribed ; but the spirit of it was seen in the action of those Committees who were, by this enactment, made masters of the great body of the ColouistB, when those Committees, as will be Been, hereafter, not only sequestrated, but confiscated and sold, the properties of those who were personally obnoxious to them.

they possessed a conceded interest; that no appeal from the judgment of such a local revolutionary tribunal, too often controlled by personal or family quarrels 4 or by ecclesiastical or neighborhood feuds or by foreign interferences, was provided for or allowed ; and that the dictates of his conscience and the oath of his office, if he held an office, as far as these should assert his duty to his Sovereign and to the Colonial and Home Governments, must be sternly disregarded and suppressed, by every one.