This obligation to continue in force, until a reconciliation shall take place between Great Britain and America, upon Constitutional principles--an event which we most ardently desire.

And, we will hold all those persons inimical to the liberty of the Colonies, who shall refuse to subscribe to this association."* * Drayton's Memoirs, Vol.

1, p.

28 .-- This open declaration was followed up with measures equally fearless and decisive.

On the fourth day of the session, the Provincial Congress resolved to raise fifteen hundred infantry, rank and file, in two regiments; and four hundred and fifty horse, constituting another regiment.