w " Resolved : That General Morris be ordered immediately to appre* "hend and secure the persons ordered to be apprehended by this Con- "vention, yesterday, and that he be furnished with a list of those persons "names," (Journal of the Convention, "Die Sabbati, 4 ho.,- P.M., Augt: '■10, 1776." J

As no such Order for the arrest of any one as is recited in the above Resolution appears in the published Journal of the Convention of the preceding day, it is evident that this is one of those instances of arbitrary lawlessness, familiar to despots, of which the records are buried in secrecy.

WESTCHESTEK COUNTY.

Those who were supposed to have been " disaf- "fected," whether they were really so or not, very much alarmed the Convention ; and the reports of the ill disposition of large portions of the inhabitants, in various parts of the State, were really and reasonably sufficient to create alarm, even among more resolute men than those of whom the Convention was constituted. Those whom the Committees and the Congresses had persecuted and outraged and all whom their sufferings could influence, very naturally and very reasonably, were " disaffected," as the inhabitants of Staten-Island had been: many, great numbers, of those who had honestly and earnestly opposed the Home Government and who had boldly demanded a redress of the Colonial grievances, were also " disaffected," when the fire-eaters' Resolution of Independence was forced on them, nolens volenti, as Colonel James Holmes, of Bedford, -- who had represented Westchester-county in the Provincial Convention which had sent the Delegation of the Colony to the second Continental Congress; who had represented the County in the First Provincial Congress ; and who had commanded, throughout the entire Campaign of 1775, the Regiment of Troops in which were the Companies from the same County -- was "disaffected," thereby.