They must be conscious to themselves that they have spread abroad a falseliood. and they are hereby called upon, if they dare, to set their names to those assertions. In what manner those gentlemen who chose the committee at the Plains proceeded, we cannot positively say; but this we can declare with truth, that we do not believe they can produce to the public the names of a hundred and tifty persons who voted for a committee that day, and we are surely persimded that they did their utmost to make their party as numerous a's possible,

a Mk. TJivint.ton :-- I dirt siin a protest which was printed in your paper, bnt I did so i>ecauso I was tolJ tiiat the Imeut of sigci.ng it wa3 to stiow that 1 was fur the liberty of iHv.' country. S.».mcei. Bakek.

6 That our names wovo not suhscntied *o the protest of \Vesttfhe=tcr, cither t<.v ours(.!vc«, or our (inli-r^ or permission, lUfL-cily or iMlirixtU', is certitua bv ii-s, each for hiiiwilf.

Jluy 4t!l, iTV5. I'ETER BlS.-ING. Joii.N Bi .-.>rN<;.

THE TO\V'X OF WHITE PLAINS. 56 1

1 ; V then can they justify their choice of a committee ? or how can they presume • i;:;'.">e upon the world, and to iuiult the Loyal County of Westcluaier in so jri^-vi Kid u inanucr? It is well known here that two-thirds, at least, of the int^' .■„-i;it3 of this county are friends to order and government, and opposed to c-..>:i';tli;es aud all unlawful comblDatlons ; and it will be made apparent to the te rid that they arc so, as soon as certain resolves, now signing freely by the J.^^,l lo, shall be ready for publication. And one principal reason why the friends I ) c )ViTnnient did not assemble in greater numbers than they did, on Tuesday li.*;, was that many of them had already, by signing those resolves, testified their I .\a;ty to the king, their attachment to the constitution, their enmity to thecomr:;i!tffs, and their acquiescence in the prudent measures taken by the Assembly iu tiie late session, for accommodating the unhappy differences between the muther country and the colonies; and consequently thought they had done their duty.