"Galloway urged it in an elaborate speech ; and it was supported by " Duane, Jay, and Edward Rutledge. 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 Jour- " nals. This result was an end to the loyalist influence in Congress." -- (Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, Boston: 1872, 367, 3G8.)

See, also, Hildreth's Uis'nnj of the United States, First Series, iii., 46; Pitkin's History of the United States, i., 299, 300 ; Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War, ii., 109 ; etc.

2 Vide pages 26, 27, ante.

a John Jay opposed some of the extremely democratic utterances of Patrick Henry, very properly ; but he opposed, also, the utterance of Roger Sherman, when thatplainmau " deduced allegiance from consent," ashe continued to oppose that democratic dogma, throughout his entire life. The aristocratic Richard Henry Lee was in harmony with him ; but the democratic element of the Congress was widely opposed to him, in all his fundamental propositions.

4 Yide the extracts from Galloway's Examination , Bancroft's History of the United Slates, and Frothingham's Rise of the Republic, 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."