The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . ediately -^receding the Revolu-tion, Morris had no more idea of separation from England than hadmost of his contemr,oraries. The aristocracy had opposed the stampact, but in a lav/ful manner, in v/hioh tliey were distinguisherl fromthe riotous radical organizations (2). Tlio problem before luorrisanri his arictocratic friends was to determine the bacir, of set^ with rlngland,. Morris writes in 1774, I see that if the dis-putes with l^rnat Britain continue, v;e shall bo undej the dominionof a riotous miob. - - - - -i-t in the interest o
The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . ediately -^receding the Revolu-tion, Morris had no more idea of separation from England than hadmost of his contemr,oraries. The aristocracy had opposed the stampact, but in a lav/ful manner, in v/hioh tliey were distinguisherl fromthe riotous radical organizations (2). Tlio problem before luorrisanri his arictocratic friends was to determine the bacir, of set^ with rlngland,. Morris writes in 1774, I see that if the dis-putes with l^rnat Britain continue, v;e shall bo undej the dominionof a riotous miob. - - - - -i-t in the interest of ;ill men to seek re-union with the T^arent state (3). Horris was remaining true tohis class interests in urging reconciliation, but \hen the breakcame he was one of the first of the conservatives to break the bondsof an aristocratic training, and to unite with the radicals withwhole-souled support f4). (1) Sparks, Gcuverneur Morris, I, 13-15. (2) Becker, Political Parties in the rovince of IIbw York, 51. (3) ST^arks, I, 25. ? (4) Becker, 7 II. Public Services in New York. The old Ijew York Assembly, v;hich had been loyalistin tone, adjourned in April of 1775, never to reconvene. The direc-tion or the opoosition to ^reat Britain viae now in the hands ofvarious oxtra-legai but ^Topmarly olocted The Committeeof One-Humdred , was at ihis time dominant in th--^ city, is-sued letters calling for elections tor a irovincicl Congress. only the radicals met since the conservatives ignoredthe meeting (1). Ihis meeting elected Goiiverneiir Liorris as oneof the deputies from .Vestchester (3)» This did not orove tliat hewas a radical at this time because the radicals were wise enough toelect a number or men who were rather moderate in order to concil-iate the the conservative class (4). At the same time he dis-played a strmg nationalistic attitude because his first act in theProvincial Congress was to support a resolution that implicit obed-ience
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