* The Iiefpalch of Lii-iilcnanl-gnrernor Colden to the F.url of liiirlmouth dated, " Xf.w York, December 7th, 1774," in which the Home Government was informed of these dishonorable revelations of the action of the Congress, is too extended to be copied into this Note. The reader is consequently referred to it.
^ \ carefully prepared f>ic-simile of the last sheet of that AMoeiolion, which contained the signatures of the several Delegations-- those of James Duane and Joseph Galloway being among them-- may be seen in Force's Americuu Archifen, Fourth Series, i., opposite fiilios 91.'i, 91C.
HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
of that opportunity to obtain, for himself, a seat in tliat Congress, a contingency which the Colonial Government was, probably, quite as anxious to avoid, and one which was evidently guarded against by means which were entirely effective. James Duane was not among those who were suddenly converted, in order to ensure their success at the Polls; but, nevertheless, on the day after the disgraceful political somersault of Philip Livingston, Isaac Low, John Alsop, and John Jay had been declared satisfactory hj their jilebeian and revolutionary auditor}', that eminent adherent to the original policy of the Committee of Correspondence, as well as those who had so ignominiously abandoned it, was elected, at the Polls, by the unanimous vote of "the Inhabitants," ' -affording an exam])le, in political engineering, which has been too often followed, at the expense of individual integrity and of the good of the country, from that time until the present.