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"Galloway urged it in an elaborate speech; and it was supported by " Duane, .Jay, and Edward Kutledge. It was not only rejected, however, " but the menbers came at last to view it with so much odium that the " Motions in relation to it were ordered to be expunged from the Juur- " nuh. This result was an end to the loyalist intluence iu Congress." -- (Erothingham's llise of the R-imhUr, Boston: 1872, 3ii7, 3i)8.)

See, also, Hildreth's His'orii of the T'niled States, First Series iii., 4G; Pitkin's Histoni of the Vuited N'lfes, i., 209, 300 ; Jones's Histo>-y of Seiv Yoi k ,]»rUi<j the livrotittionarii War, ii., 109 ; etc.

■- Vide pages 26, 27, ante.

3 John Jay opposed some of the extremely democratic utterances of Patrick Henry, very ]iroper!y ; but he opposed, also, the utterance of Roger Shermau,when that plain man " ileduced allegiance from consent," as he continued to oppose that democratic dogma, throughout his entire life. The aristocratic Kichard Henry Lee was in harmony « ith hini ; but the democratic elem,ent of the Congress was widely opposed to him, in all his fundamental propositions.

4 Vide the extracts from Galluway".'- Eyoiiiiiiiitivu, Bancroft's Histunj of the Vidted Htules, and Frothingliani's Uise of the llepnblk; in Note 1, page 34, above.

from the censures of history and to regard him as peculiarly pure and virtuous, as a man and as a politician ; but, as has been well-said by another, " there '' are no tricks in plain and simple faith."