The New York herald., 1876-07-09

thee and the like of thee in our new communities
We have Drawn enow and much godleness and singing
oi psalms but gentlemen and gentlewomen be few
among US" 1t is the hfth OF line drawn IRON such
Pniipses aud De Lanceys of the tories.
the y name -" was HS Mnir w,D,hrops hepo caine
from his wasted manor in Westchester to open his
oyster IN the city, and the Lvngsons proposed to send
hm TO the Provincial Assembly TO oppose the Dc Lam
ceys The De lanceys in turn said Represent US aud
talk those radical Livngstons down. Brothertoit's
oyster such as It was, opened OF itself aud bo found
his pearl in Jane Bop the daughter ola
iather-Horse Beef Biliop army contractor In the
French wars She was dashug beauty who taiked to
herself as II talking to Miss Mary Phipss, "l'm
handsomer than you End not almost an old maid, but
she managed to break the Brotherto hcart before Sir
Admiral, came to Staten lsland-to drive HIM from her
house TO fight with the patriots AT Bunker Hill and
coarse grained ''old Put" when Washington
reading the Declaration OF Independence 10 his troops
in the City Hall Park and the mob and the soldiers
were tearing down the statue Of the King IN Bowling
Green Lady Brothertof. was signing tor the APP
proach of the red coats from the Lower
Bay They came IN good time, and ''red'' was the
color in society" 'supercIlious officers in red coats
who addressed as General or My Lord insolent
officers in red Goals hight Colonel or Sir Harry WIN
throp tells US arranged their laced cravats at the
mirror under the rampant eagle or lounged on the
sohs. There were plenty Of such personages now IN
New York aud Mrs Brothcrtoits house made them all
we.come." Lady Brothertoit the next year gave
grand dinner Bro,hertoit manor after 0d Put' had
with company whom everybody knows-Sir Henry
Clinton and Admiral Hotham Lord RawdoL and Jack
Andre, the dull Major Limerick and the upsy Major
Kerr. This dinner is picture in its way, little too
aim and shadowy perhaps, but picture which Will
give clearer insight into the thoughts and feel
ngs, the manners and customs OF the times the in
sincerity and social foolishness OF the epoch, and of
the and baseness, the simplicity ana beauty
which are sure TO be commngled with the uncertain.
ties OF Edwin Brothertott" as n whole is
study rather than picture, but 1t enables
us better understand the times are now celebrat
rtnh faryn md IN eia fha ah.
clements of Loyalty to tho drown and loyalty to
freedom with which Washington was thrown IN con
when he caused the immortal Declaration to DO
proclaimed in he fields" just outside OF the Old city
of New York
EFFECTS OF THE PROCLAMATION.
1t need be surprising that in society const
tuted the immediate effect OF the proclamation OF the
Declaration OF Independence should be in measure
disastrous The ukewarm and the indifferent
at once took the Tory side, while some
Of the Wing partsans became lukcwarm or in
different A notable example OF this was the case OF
General Oliver De Laucey He was OF large
property aud great influence, and before the war he
leaned toward the popular cause ou alter the Declara
tion forth he espoused the oyast side because
he deprecated separation. This De Lancey, aided by
his Oiver and his nephew James, raised battalion
time aterward they committed SO many dep.
relations upon the cattle IN Westchesser hat
they viii always be known In history as the Cow
Boys" Could there be more interesting
fact than this, that the famous and infamous Cow
Boys had their origin in the pique OF old Oliver DE
Lancey the adoption of the Declaration of Inde
pcndencey While we are re oicing over It as the
charter of liberties forse.ul that was
hurtful to Washington celencc OF New York would
have been proclamation OF emancipation in the first
year OF the tor the Union Wc have seen what
a powerful enemy It created In Diver Do lnncey,
and yet he was only one OF the leading
of the province whom it sent into the camp OF the
royaists. The women. too-that Is, the women or
iashon-were even than the men. All tho
LADY BrothertoIs' in the city, or near H. wore pray
ing for the coming OF the redcoats, that there might be
balls and dinners and hrtatlons with "My Lord" or
''sr Harry or failing these. with Colonel This or
Major That At the same time, TOO. Washington was
dstres ed by the jeaousies which existed ia his own
camp. The southern troops looked with something
very like contempt upon those from New England,
especially those from Connecticut, whose pecnliarties
department even more marked IN that day than
this The scarlet and bun uniforms OF sma'lwood's
Maryland battalion contrasted vvdly with the rustic
attire OF the hasty levies OF husbandmen" from the
East and the contrast was often expressed III words
as wei! as IN appearances. Then the Pennsylv lvania
regiment promoted balls and other entertainments in
contradstinction tho fast days sermons OF the
New Enganders so rife did these sectional jealouses
become that Washington was compelled to issue
general order in the very face OF the enemy asking his
troops TO sink all distinctions and differences
in the common name of Americans And
when recall the condition OF the country
July Q, 1875. powerful army aided by powerful
fleet below the city. Opposed TO these was mere
handful OF evies badly equipped, badly olicercd
weakened by sectional iealousIes and chickering's.
There treason in the camp and conspiracies
promoted in the city. p'safecton was riie IN New
York, Long Island and in Westchester.
Spies thronged even the headquarters OF the Com
mander in Chief and one of Washlngton's own guard
was hanged for having reasonable correspondence
with the enemy while number of citizens were sent
as prisoners to Connecticut for plotting ior Washing
tons and delivery into the hands of Sir Henry
Clinton. The city was practically unforuhed, and there
were few for fortincatlon. With such
roundlngs and with the certainty that the Declaration
of Independence would add to his complications and
dangers Washington read that immortal paper to his
army 100 years ago.