Page 170 - Transcriptions d'actes notariés - Tome 20 - 1682-1686

The Commission had failed in ilfi purpose. Durinp the six wwks
that the Cuniinissioners were absent the Congress had been moving
toward~ a definite break witIi Brilain. When, on July 4, the draft of
the Derlaraiion of Independence \vas ready, the gloom over the iailure
of the Canadian Conimission was dispelled in the light of the grealer
j ,bue.
It js evident that tliere n-ere many laclor3 which contrjbuted to tIie
failure of tlie mission: The Aniericanj lacked hard money; the
Continental troops were ill-equipped; the inttile rance vciiced by the
Continental Con.gress in 1774 sub~equetit ta the fiassage or the Qriebee
Act was still remenibered by tlie Canadiaris; - tiut ihe must poweriuI
positive force was die firni prisiiirin maintained by Bishop Briand
commandinF the Ioyalty of al1 Canadiaris to Grvat Britain.