The Pennsylvania evening post — Philadelphia, Pa., 1776-06-22 00:00:00, page 4

Philadelphia county. William Hamilton, Henry Hill, Ro
bert Lewis, jun. Enoch Edwards, Joseph Mather, James
Potts, Matthew Brooks, Robert Loller, Edward Bartholomew,
Frederick Antis, John Bull.
Bucks county. John Kidd, Henry Wynkoop, Samuel Wal
lace, Benjamin Sigle, Joseph Hart.
Chefer. Richard Thoma ? , William Evans, Thomas Hock
ley, Caleb Davis, 'Elifha Price, Samuel Fairlamb, William
Montgomery, Hugh Lloyd, Richard Reiley, Evan Evans,
Lewis Grona, Sketcbly Morton, Thomas Levis.
Lancaster count,. 'William Atlee, Ludwig Lawman, Bar
tram Galbraith, Alexander Lowrey, Andrew Graaff, William
Brc^ n, John Smiley, James Cunningham, David Jenkins..
York county. 'James Smith, -Robert M'Pherfon, Richard
M'Allefter,David Kennedy, William Rankin, Henry Slagle,
James Egar, John Hay, Joseph Read.
Cumberland county. James M'Lane, John Allison, John
M'Clay, William Elliot, William Clark, John Colhoon,
John Creigh, Hugh M'Cormick, John Harris, Hugh Alex
ander.
Berks. Jacob Morgan, Henry Hauler, Mark Bird, Bodo
Otto, Benjamin Spiker, Daniel Hunter, Valentine Eakerd,
Nicholas Lutz, Joseph Header, Charles Shoemaker.
Northampton. Robert Levers, John Witzel, Nicholas De
pui, Neigal Gray, David Defhler, Benjamin Depui.
Bedford. David Espy, John Piper, Samuel Davidson.
Northumberland. William Cooke, Alexander Hunter,
John Heitzel, Robert Martin, Matthew Brown.
Weftmoreland. Edward Cool:, James Perry.
To the Honorable the CONFERENCE of the several COM
MITTEES of the province of Pennsylvania, now con
vened and fitting in Philadelphia, the Memorial of the
PATRIOTIC SOCIETY of the city of Philadelphia,
Humbly fheweth,
THAT, in times like the present, when all authority is
founded on consent and convenience, and no
permanent order is yet established, we conceive that neces
sity fufficiently juftifies our present application to this House
as the only mode of regular proceeding whicli the present
fate of affairs will admit of; therebeing now no other provin
cial representation in existence here ; and becaufewe likewise
conceive that the late House of Assembly, by breaking up
and dispersing in the very crisis of danger and difficulty, and
that without a fufficient number present to authorize such an
ad, has thereby deserted the public cause, dissolved them
feLves, and left the people, so far as refpeds that House, un
represented. These are the grounds on which the reafonable
mefs and neceflity of our applying to this House are founded.
The case which we have to lay before you needs neither
apology nor felicitation. It is the case of all ! This House,
their Memorialifts, and their Constituents in every part of
the province, are alike interested therein. We have, for a
considerable time, beheld a difference subsisting between the
Committee of Safety and the Captains of the low-gallies, and
it appears to us that the public welfare is likely to be endan
gered thereby. The particular cause or progress of that dif
ference we m^n not to enter into ; but in general terms we
can fay, that on the part of the Captains the public seems
fully fatisfied, and have a clear confidence both in their at
tachment to the cause and their abilities for the service. On
the part of the Committee we cannot make the fame decla
ration ; for though we have the highest esteem for the wis
dom and integrity of several of its members, yet they are
blended with others whose connexions, interest and preju
dices, are opposite to the common cause. And it is to this
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unnatural and impolitic mixture of peifofts of contrary sen
timents that we attribute the present diftradion subsisting be
tween the Committee and the Captains.—This province hath
now resolved upon a change of government, yet many of
the members of the Committee are diffentients therefrom, and
have entered into a rem nftrance against it. They are in op
position to the very cause in which the Captains, as soldiers,
are fighting ! And we wonder not that they are endeavouring
''—^comfit and dishearten these men, more than that the
Associators throughout the province are to this hour desti
tute of the quantities of ammunition necessary to enable them
'° exert them Selves upon emergency for the commo; defence,
ne fee the danger that is coming upon us from th- narrow
ness of spirit, or, what is worse, a difaffeCtion in principle.
We have been patient till patience is become crinH al. As
members of the community at large, or as individual, whose
lives and properties depend upon a most vigorous defence,
we can no longer fit still and fufFer these things. The times
will not now admit of ceremony. Our duty, as citizens and
as fathers, compel us to thef^eclarations. The charge in
truded to the Committee of Safety is too great to ' left to
the meer will and plealure of a few individuals, especially
when we confider that they were appointed under a govern
ment which is both diffobved and fareffed.
Ihe House of Assembly, while it existed, were in some
measure accountable to their constituents by a wet'; pub
lication of their proceedings, and the members thereof were
removeable at elections; but the Committee of Safer, from
the very nature of its business, has the privilege of secrecy,
and the time of their duration is unlimited. These tircum
ftances increase the importance of their trust, and ^der it
necessary that they should be men removed as far fr<m every
tempation to disaffection as possible—men of the clear ft and
most unfufpicious political characters ; yet many of them we
have strong reasons to believe are not so.
We have here pointed out a radical evil, but we know not
howto apply a radical cure. We therefore pray thia Hono
rable House to take the important premises into their m^ft se
rious consideration ; and, as the most pressing neceby re
quires, to apply such timely and effectual remedy as in their
wisdom they shall fee meet, and their Memorialifts, rG /^duty
bound, fnall, &c. Signed by order of the meeting.'
June 21, 1776. FRANCIS WADE, Chairman.
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