'' It is my Opinion that the Parliament have no " Right to Tax America, tho' they have a Right to ^-M " regulate the Trade of the Empire. I am further of ; " Opinion that several Acts of Parliament are Griev- " ances ; and that the execution of them ought to be " Opposed, in such Manner as may be Consistent with " the Duty of a Subject to our Sovereign ; tho' I can- " not help expressing my Disapprobation of many " violent Proceedings, in some of the Colonies.
" Dated the 3d of November, 1774.
" Timothy Wetmore." 2
The organization of the Congress of the Continent, and its Proceedings, as far as it permitted those Proceedings to be made public, and the series of papers which it sent forth, in behalf of the complaining Colonies, form important portions of the world's history which need not be repeated, in this place. It will not be improper, however, to notice, in this connection, the fact that two, if no more, of the Delegates who represented the revolutionary portion of the inhabitants of Westchester-county, in that Congress, were actively associated with Joseph Galloway, whom history has regarded as a " volunteer spy for the " British Government," 3 in a, measure, proposed in the
1 Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 79, New-York, Thursday, Octotier 20, 1774.
2 Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, No. 82, New-York, Thursday, November 10, 1774.
• Bancroft's History of the United States, original edition, vii., 126 ; the same, centenary edition, iv., 392.