Four days subsequently, [December 12, 1775,] a Report was made by the Committee, with a draft of a letter to be addressed to the Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, "on the subject matter of the Gen- " eral Committee's Petition," both of which were violently opposed by those who were most revolutionary in their inclinations. The debates were continued through two Sessions of the Congress, and various amendments were made in the letter, when it was adopted, Colonel Gilbert Drake and Stephen Ward, Deputies from Westchester-county, opposing the motion, and Colonel Lewis Graham, also a Deputy from that County, supporting it. 6

" 'make their publick entry into the City, at noon-day, and did seize '" and carry off the types belonging to one of the publick Printers of " 'this Colony, without any authority from the Continental or this Con- "'gress, your Petitioners, or any other body having power to grant " ' such authority. And being apprehensive that such Incursions, " * should they be repeated, will be productive of many great and evil con- ' ' ' sequences to the Inhabitants of such place wherein they may be here - ' ' after made, your Petitioners do therefore conceive it highly necessary, '" in the present situation of publick affairs, as well for the sake of inter- " ' nal peace and harmony of eaeh Colony as for the maintenance of the " 'general union of the Continent, now happily subsisting, and so essen- " ' tial, at this juncture, that each of the associated Colonies on the Con- " ' tinent should have the sole management and regulation of its publick " 'matters by its Congress or Committee, unless otherwise directed by " ' the honourable the Continental Congress.