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.

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interest of the Crown, which, the Congress not only rejected, with contempt, but would not permit to be laid on its table nor to be recorded on its published Journal ; 1 that one of those two Delegates was subsequently discovered to have been quite as deeply implicated in a perfidious communication of the secret proceedings of the Congress, with quite as earnest a sympathy for the King and the Government, as Joseph Galloway is known to have been ; 2 and that the. other Delegate referred to signalized himself, throughout the entire period occupied by the Congress, not only by his earnest advocacy of "the insidious proposi- " tion " of Joseph Galloway, offered and supported in the interest of the Crown, but by his unceasing opposition to every assertion of republican principles and by his equally untiring support of whatever sustained the existing power of the aristocracy and the timehallowed prerogatives of the Crown and the Parliament 3 -- he has not, indeed, been found to have been, directly, in the service of the Colonial Government ; but he is known to have been the willing associate and confidential friend of those who were actively employed in that service ; and in their loyal labors, in behalf of their recognized Sovereign, he is known, also, to have been their open and untiring and most distinguished co-worker, 4 concealed from the light of open day, however, by the vote of secrecy which his friends and associates did not hesitate to disregard, in the presence of the official representative of the Crown, who was, also, their political master.