[Footnote i-282: Although Franklin denied having written it (_Writings_, IV, 82), Mr. Ford (_Franklin Bibliography_, III) asserts that "this work must still be treated as from Franklin's pen." He sent 500 copies to Pennsylvania consigned to his partner, David Hall, for distribution.] [Footnote i-283: To Joseph Galloway, April 11, 1757 (unpublished MS letter in W. S. Mason Collection). For a description of the unpublished Franklin-Galloway correspondence see W. S. Mason's article in _Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society_ for Oct., 1924.] [Footnote i-284: To Joseph Galloway, Feb. 17, 1758 (unpublished MS letter in W. S. Mason Collection).] [Footnote i-285: June 10, 1758 (unpublished MS letter in W. S. Mason Collection).] [Footnote i-286: April 7, 1759 (unpublished MS letter in W. S. Mason Collection).] [Footnote i-287: _The Works of Benjamin Franklin_ (Philadelphia, 1809), II, 147.] [Footnote i-288: _Ibid._, II, 7.] [Footnote i-289: _Ibid._, II, 1.] [Footnote i-290: _Ibid._, II, vii.] [Footnote i-291: _Ibid._, II, xvi.] [Footnote i-292: Apropos of many colonial ferments, not unlike the one we have considered above, Carl Becker writes: "Throughout the eighteenth century, little colonial aristocracies played their part, in imagination clothing their governor in the decaying vesture of Old-World tyrants and themselves assuming the homespun garb, half Roman and half Puritan, of a virtuous republicanism.... It was the illusion of sharing in great events rather than any low mercenary motive that made Americans guard with jealous care their legislative independence" (_The Eve of the Revolution_, New Haven, 1918, 60). Also see C. H. Lincoln, _The Revolutionary Movement in Pennsylvania, 1760-1776_.] [Footnote i-293: _Writings_, III, 408-9.] [Footnote i-294: _Ibid._, III, 457.] [Footnote i-295: V. W. Crane, "Certain Writings of Benjamin Franklin on the British Empire and the American Colonies," _Papers of the Bibliographical Society_, XXVIII, Pt. 1, 6 (1934). Also see W. L. Grant, "Canada vs. Guadaloupe," _American Historical Review_, XVII, 735-43, (Oct., 1911-July, 1912).] [Footnote i-296: Beer, _op. cit._, 313.] [Footnote i-297: _Writings_, IV, 224.] [Footnote i-298: _Ibid._, IV, 229.] [Footnote i-299: The massacre led by the "Paxton boys."] [Footnote i-300: _Writings_, IV, 314.] [Footnote i-301: _Writings_, IV, 418.] [Footnote i-302: _Ibid._, IV, 419. See Beer, _op. cit._, 294 f.] [Footnote i-303: _A History of American Political Theories_, 46.] [Footnote i-304: _Writings_, IV, 445-6.] [Footnote i-305: To Joseph Galloway, May 20, 1767 (photostat of unpublished MS letter in W. S. Mason Collection; original in W. L. Clements Library).] [Footnote i-306: To Joseph Galloway, Aug. 20, 1768 (photostat of unpublished MS letter in W. S. Mason Collection; original in W. L. Clements Library).]