[287] Cf. Journals of Congress, i. 26; Pitkin's United States, i. App. 17; Spencer's United States, i. 338; Lee's Life of R. H. Lee, i. 119; Jay's Life of John Jay, i. App.; Ramsay's South Carolina, 263. There was published in London A letter to the people of Great Britain in answer to that published by the American Congress (London, 1775,—Sabin, x. no. 40,509).
[288] Given in Ramsay's Rev. in So. Carolina, i. 279; N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 426, etc.
[289] Given in the Appendix of Frothingham's Joseph Warren, and in Journal Cont. Cong., i. p. 9. Cf. Mem. Hist. Boston, iii. 59; Life of George Read, 95.
[290] New York during the Rev., i. 34, 36.
[291] P. O. Hutchinson's Governor Hutchinson, i. 272.
[292] Cf. a letter of A. Lee on the effect of the Congress on the ministry, in Life of A. Lee, i. 213.
[293] The plan was published in Philadelphia at the time, and was included the next year in Galloway's Candid examination of the mutual claims of Great Britain and the colonies, with a plan of accommodation on Constitutional principles (New York, 1775, and again in 1780). This drew out An Address to the Author of a pamphlet entitled, etc., to which Galloway responded in A Reply (N. Y., 1775). It was later included in Galloway's Historical and political Reflections on the Rise and Progress of the Amer. Rebellion (London, 1780). Cf. Force, 4th ser., i. p. 1; Sparks's Franklin, vii. 276, viii. 145; Bigelow's Franklin, ii. 249; Gordon, i. 409; John Adams's Works, ii. 387, iv. 141; Jones's N. Y. during the Rev., ii. 109, 430; Bancroft, United States, orig. ed., vii. 140; Pitkin's United States, i. 299; Hildreth's United States, iii. 46; Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 367, 399; Wells's Sam. Adams, ii. 218; Dawson's Westchester County, 34; Graydon's Memoirs, 117; lives of Washington by Marshall and Sparks; lives of John Jay by Jay and by Flanders; and of Patrick Henry by Wirt.
Jones, in his New York during the Rev., i. ch. 2, with notes on pp. 438, 449, 477, 490, explains the relations of the loyalists to this Congress. Governor Franklin sent the Galloway plan to Dartmouth with comments (N. J. Archives, x. 503).
Galloway explains his relations to this Congress, and divulged more than the agreement of secrecy was held to warrant, in his Examination before the House of Commons in a committee on the American Papers (London, 1779; 2d ed., with explanatory notes, 1780; ed. by Thomas Balch, Philad., for the Seventy-Six Society, 1855). There is a Dutch version, 1781 (Muller, 1877, no. 1,200). Respecting this examination, Lecky (ii. pp. 443, 481, etc.) says: "As a loyalist, Galloway's mind was no doubt biased; but he was a very able and honest man, and he had much more than common means of forming a correct judgment."
It has been supposed that Galloway conveyed to Governor Franklin the information which through that official reached Dartmouth (N. Jersey Archives, x. 473). Galloway is said also to have prepared the pamphlet Arguments on both sides in the dispute, etc., which is also reprinted in the N. J. Archives, x. 478. On Galloway, see Sabine's Loyalists, i. 453.