It is not in " the nature of things to be otherwise ; for no man that entertains " a hope of seeing this dispute speedily and equitably adjusted by " Commissioners will go to the same expense and run the same hazards " to prepare for the worst event, as he who believes that he must " conquer, or submit to unconditional terms and the like concomitants, "such as confiscation, hanging, and the like." (General Washington to his brother, Augustine Washington, "Philadelphia, 31 May, 1776.")

WESTCHESTEE COUNTY.

Although an official copy of that Preamble and Eesolution was evidently sent to the Provincial Congress of New York, no mention was made of the receipt of it, on the Journals of that body ; but, on the twenty-fourth of May, " the order of the day being " read, the Congress proceeded to take into considera- " tion " the Resolution and the general subject to which it particularly related. 1 * * * * * *

The Provincial Congress having " considered " the Report, it also adopted it, evidently without debate or a division of the house, -- Westchester-county was unrepresented in that exceedingly important vote, owing to the absence of a quorum of its Deputation ; -- and, after the Congress had ordered the Resolutions to be published in all the newspapers in the Colony and in handbills, the latter for distribution in the rural Counties, 2 it appears to have dismissed the entire subject from its further attention.