Haven ascribes to Thomas B. Chandler, and Sabin (no. 16,591) to Dr. Myles Cooper, a tract, What think ye of Congress now? Or an Enquiry how far the Americans are bound to abide by and execute the decisions of the late Continental Congress, with a plan by Samuel [sic] Galloway, Esq., for a proposed union between Great Britain and her Colonies (N. Y., 1775; Lond., 1775). This pamphlet accuses the New England republicans of urging the Congress beyond the purpose for which its members were elected.
[294] The articles were printed in all newspapers, and in those of Boston, Nov. 7th. They are also in the Journals of Congress, i. 23; in Ramsay's Rev. in South Carolina, i. 252; in H. W. Preston's Docs. illus. Amer. Hist. (N. Y., 1886), p. 199; in Force, 4th ser., i. 915, with fac-simile of signatures; in the Charleston Year Book (1883), p. 216, with fac-similes; in Jos. Johnson's Traditions and Reminiscences of the Amer. Rev. (Charleston, 1851), p. 51, with fac-similes. The signatures, somewhat reduced, are given herewith from Smith's Hist. and Lit. Curiosities, 2d ser., p. liii. Maryland's copy of the original printed broadside, with written signatures, is in the Penna. Hist. Soc. library. Frothingham gives the best account of the genesis of the document and the effect it had (Rise of the Republic, 373, 396). In Massachusetts, a broadside Resolution of the Provincial Congress, signed by Hancock, Dec. 6th, was sent to all the ministers, urging them to give their influence to secure a general compliance (in Boston Pub. Lib., H. 90 a, 3). This plan of association was opposed by Galloway, Duane, and all the South Carolina delegates except Gadsden. Jones (N. Y. during the Rev., i. 438) gives the loyalist view. The association of the delegates, etc., by Bob Jinger, is a burlesque on the association (Harris Collection of Amer. Poetry, p. 13).
[295] Bancroft, orig. ed., vii. 161.
[296] Cavendish Debates, ed. by Wright, viz., Debates of the House of Commons in 1774 on the bill for making more effectual provision for the government of the Province of Quebec, with Mitchell's map of Canada (Lond., 1839). See also the proceedings and the bill in Amer. Archives, 4th ser., i. 170-219, 1823-1838. The bill is also in the Regents of the University of New York's Report on the boundaries of the State of N. Y., i. 90. Cf. Burke's letter on the Quebec Bill and the bounds of New York in N. Y. Hist. Coll., 2d ser., ii. 215, 219; Mill's Boundaries of Ontario, p. 50; Gordon's Sermon in Thornton's Pulpit of the Rev., 217, Shea's Hamilton, 324; and Works of Alex. Hamilton.
The satirical print "Virtual Representation", given herewith, follows an original print in a volume of Proclamations in the library of the Mass. Hist. Society. Cf. Lossing's Field-Book of the Rev., i. 158.
[297] Cf. Lecky, England in the Eighteenth Century, iii. 400, 433, on the effect of the act. Cf. also The Singular and Diverting Behaviour of Doctor Marriot, His Majesty's Advocate-General; Who was Examined concerning the Religion and Laws of Quebec; And found means from his incomparable Wit and Subtility To defeat the Purposes for which he was brought to the Bar of Parliament On the 3d of June, 1774 (Phila., 1774). Samuel Johnson's Hypocrisy unmasked, or a short inquiry into the religious Complaints of our Amer. Colonies (Lond., 1776, 3 editions), defends the bill, and says it extends no more rights to Catholics than some of the colonies do (Sabin, ix. no. 36,297). A Letter to Lord Chatham on the Quebec Bill reached five editions (London, 1774; reprinted, Boston, 1774), and was corrected in the second edition. Sabin (x. 40,468) says it was attributed to Lord Lyttelton, and more probably to Sir William Meredith. The New York reprint (1774) gave it as A letter from Lord Thomas Lyttelton to Wm. Pitt, Earl of Chatham (Stevens, Hist. Coll., ii. no. 433). Wilkie published The justice and policy of the late Act of Parliament, for making more effectual provision for the government of Quebec, asserted and proved; and the conduct of the administration respecting that province stated and vindicated (London, 1774, two editions), which is attributed to William Knox. Francis Masères published An account of the proceedings of the British and other Protestants, inhabitants of the province of Quebec, with Additional papers concerning the province of Quebec (Lond., 1776), and The Canadian Freeholder ... shewing the sentiments of the bulk of the freeholders of Canada, concerning the late Quebeck act (Lond., 1777, in three vols.). An Appeal to the public, stating and considering the objections to the Quebec bill (London, 1774), was dedicated to the patriotic society of the Bill of Rights.
[298] A letter to the inhabitants of the Province of Quebec (Philad., 1774). Lettre addressée aux habitans de la Province de Quebec (Philad., 1774). A clear idea of the genuine and uncorrupted British Constitution in an address to the inhabitants of the province of Quebec from the forty-nine delegates in the Continental Congress at Philadelphia, Sept. 5-Oct. 10, 1774 (London, 1774). Cf. Sabin, iv. 15,516, ix. p. 293, x. 40,664; Journals of Congress, i. 39.
[299] P. O. Hutchinson's Governor Hutchinson, i. 296.
[300] Aspinwall Papers (Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll.), ii. 706.
[301] Cf. Reed's Life of Reed, i. 76, 78, 82, and George Bancroft's Jos. Reed, p. 10. Governor Franklin's letters to Dartmouth are in the New Jersey Archives (x. 473, 503), where the anxiety of the king is disclosed (Ibid. x. 496, 534-5). Chatham's opinion is cited in Quincy's Life of Josiah Quincy, Jr., 268. Later English views are given in Mahon, vi. 13, and Lecky, iii. 408, 443.