[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] put them upon the doing of it. The indentures being sealed, the whole body of Electors waited on their new Representative to his lodgings with trumpets sounding and violins playing, and in a little time took their leave of him, and thus ended the Election to the general satisfaction. The rallying cries of the two parties, "No Land Tax" and "No Excise," related to a current political issue of some importance. Phil-ipse had opposed the levying of quit-rents on his manor, which his partisans termed a "land tax," and instead of it had advocated the raising of revenue by excise duties. This issue, however, was only an incidental one in the great contest of 1733. Quit-rents had always been exceedingly objectionable to the rural population, and excise duties were almost equally unpopular. As the Philipse and de Lan-cey party chose to take their stand against the so-called land tax, the Morrisites met them by raising the counter issue of no excise. But in reality it was a contest on the sole question of the governor's outrageous abuse of authority, and as such it became a perfect test of the disposition and readiness of the people to shake off the fetters of an odious government ami to array themselves for free institu-tions. There was no mistaking the true nature of the emergency, and the minds of the people were not to be confused by the pre-tense that it was an ordinary struggle over the opposing doctrines 246