The President of the Congress, General Woodhull, of Suffolk, was not handy with the pen ; and he possessed no such animosity againBt " the lower classes," asiBseeninthiB.d»wrtver. It remained, therefore, to the high toned, "well born" Deputy from Westchestercounty, Gouverneur MorriB --the same who had stood in the window of the Coffee-house, on the nineteenth of May, 1774, and, thence, bad studied the rising power of the democracy, whom he loathed *-- to write the Answer of the Congress ; and it was, unquestionably, he who did it.

s Jownal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Martis, 9 ho., A.M., June 4, "1776."

* Vide page 12, ante.

WESTCHESTEK COUNTY.

ment of a new form of Government, but in words and in terms which entitled the Artisan-author of it to the highest honors, the generally unfranchised Workingmen of the City of New York manfully declared their Eights, as a portion of that body of the People, throughout the Colony, in whom, they considered, were vested the original power and the source of all political authority, within the Colony ; denounced the assumption, by either of the Congresses or any of the Committees, of an authority over and beyond that which had been delegated to them, as illegal and destructive of the ends sought to be secured by the creation of those several bodies ; and warning the Provincial Congress of the necessary consequences of such an usurpation. That Reply, most respectful in its tone while it was most overwhelming in its facts and in its argument, was evidently not permitted to be presented to the Provincial Congress ; and, without the slightest notice on the official Journal of that body -- probably, without the slightest official action by the Congress -- it was buried in the files of that "oligarchic" body, to await a resurrection in these later days. 1