History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress . olitary horsemen and slow stages conveyedthe intelligence to the various towns and cities of the land. It was re-ceived with such public exultation that the murmurs of discontent anddisapprobation were lost in the general uproar. New York received the news on the 9th, and on the evening of thatday, at the same hour on which Nassau Hall at Princeton wasgrandly illuminated and Independency proclaimed therefrom undera triple volley of musketry, the Declaration was read, by order of Wasli-ington, at the head of each brigade of the
History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress . olitary horsemen and slow stages conveyedthe intelligence to the various towns and cities of the land. It was re-ceived with such public exultation that the murmurs of discontent anddisapprobation were lost in the general uproar. New York received the news on the 9th, and on the evening of thatday, at the same hour on which Nassau Hall at Princeton wasgrandly illuminated and Independency proclaimed therefrom undera triple volley of musketry, the Declaration was read, by order of Wasli-ington, at the head of each brigade of the army in New York and was received with enthusiastic demonstrations of delight; and amidthe ringing of bells and jubilant shouts the multitude proceeded to theBowling Green and demolished the ec^uestrian statue of George III., thelead to be run into bullets to assimilate with the lirains of the adver-sary. As some of the soldiers were implicated in this popular efferves-cence, Washington the morning in his general orders dtjnouuced the HjJi M^-y. READING OF THE DECLARATION AT CITY HALL. 93 proceeding as having the effect of a riot, and strictly icn-bade such irreo-u-larities in future. On the morning of the same day tlie uewly elected Congress of NewYork, styled the Convention, assembled iu White Plains, GeneralWoodhuU presiding, and listened to the reading of the immortal docu-ment. Thirty-eight men of sound and discriminating judgment werepresent, representing the Dutch, English, and Huguenot elements of theProvince. They knew that ibr the inhabitants of New York ultimatesuccess could only be secured through years of sorrow, during which theywere sure to be impoverished, wliilc death stared fnjm every part of theirterritory. The Morrises must almndon their fine estates to tlie ra\ages ofthe enemy; Jay nuust prepare to see his aged parents driven from tlie oldhomestead at Rye to wander and perish ; Van Cortlandt, Van Kensselaer,Schuyler, and tlie (jns
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