IV. CONVENTION ELECTIONS

ecution of this patriotic enterprise, you may be assured that the official
bounty bestowed last winter at Poughkeepsie, has not been treated with
ingratitude. To the official influence already mentioned, I may truly
add that of two men residing in the upper part of the County, who
commenced Federalists, but by the magic touch of official promises,
said to have been made to them at the last sitting of the Legislature,
they were metamorphosed into the most violent Anti-federalists. The
fidelity and industry with which they have performed their engage-
ments will, I presume, justly entitle them to the boons they expect
under the present administration. Such was the influence brought into
action against the federal ticket: But the great body of the people of
the County having seen for some time past, that the views of their rulers
were directed to private, not to public objects, had the boldness to
think and to act for themselves.-They examined the Constitution with
candor, and found that it would not oblige them to part with any new
rights, but would only transfer to the General Legislature of the Union,
rights now existing in the Legislature of this State. This transfer they
conceive to be a mere matter of expediency, and from a comparison
of the proceedings of the Legislature of this State, with those of Con-
gress, as well during the war as since the peace, they have no doubt
that the transfer, if made, will be productive of the happiest effects.-
Thus you see the enchantment in this County is dissolved; and I have
every reason to believe that the people in general will continue to be
guided by the suggestions of their own good sense, instead of yielding
to the artful misrepresentations and interested advice of their quondam
oracles. The Delegates to the CONVENTION are
LEWIS MORRIS,
PHILIP P LIVINGSTON,
LOTT SARLS,
RICHARD HATFIELD,
THADDEUS CRANE, and
PHILIP V CORTLANDT.
And the Members of Assembly, are
WALTER SEAMAN,
PHILIP V CORTLANDT,
NATHAN ROCKWELL,
PHILIP P LIVINGSTON,
THADDEUS CRANE, and
JONATHAN HORTON.
"Our worthy friend, General Morris, is in as high spirits as he was in
the beginning of the late controversy with Great Britain, when he van-
quished the combined forces of Philips and Delancy."

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