[5]
People are sometimes in the habit of making light of a tempest in a tea pot. This tea tempest was no laughing matter.
[6]
See the Journal of Charles Carroll, of Carollton, published by the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore--page 6.
[7]
U.S. Catholic Magazine, vol. 4, p. 251, and Brent's Biography of Archbishop Carroll, p. 69.
[8]
It is not a little odd, that Franklin should have been a member of this Committee, seeing that he was the very man who urged upon the British Minister, in 1759, the expediency of reducing Canada, as the most serious blow which could be inflicted on French power in America.
[9]
Carroll's visit to Canada, p. 27.