The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . rris was the chairman. This committee lost nc time inpresenting a report v/hich declared that the colonists would nottreat with peace commissioners unless the British troops were with-drawn, or the independence of the colonies recognized (4), Whenthe British Commissioners arrived, they met with but little bet-ter reception than the bills which preceded them. Their missionended in total failure because of the unpopular basis on whichthey wished to treat. Gouverneur Korris played a chief part inthe whole affair, and most of the reports and resol
The public services of Gouverneur Morris to 1787 . rris was the chairman. This committee lost nc time inpresenting a report v/hich declared that the colonists would nottreat with peace commissioners unless the British troops were with-drawn, or the independence of the colonies recognized (4), Whenthe British Commissioners arrived, they met with but little bet-ter reception than the bills which preceded them. Their missionended in total failure because of the unpopular basis on whichthey wished to treat. Gouverneur Korris played a chief part inthe whole affair, and most of the reports and resolves, which wereissued from time to time, came from his pen (5). At the close ofthe affair he was one of a committee to draw up an outline of thewhole proceedings, entitled Observations on the American devo-lution It was a clear and comprehensive account of the urogress (1) Sparks, I, 16E. (2) ]?arrand. Records of the ^ederal Convention, II, 342. (3) Van Tyne, The American Revolution, 231-233. (4) Journals of Congress, IV, 165. (5) Sparks, I, 22 of the war and the attempts of Great Britain to secure ri«ace. Morris second great service in the field of diplcnacywas as chairman of a committee to consider certain important dis-patches from the American Commissioners abroad and certain commun-ications from the French Minister in the United States. The reportof this committee may he considered as the basis of the peace madelater, since it embraced all the essential points in the treaty ofpeace as to boundaries, evacuation of military posts, fisheries,navigation Of the Mississippi, etc fl). The report of this commit-tee was kept up for discussion from February to August of 1778, inwhich debate ITorris took a leading part as a harmonizer (2). 7/henthe opinion of Congress had been definitely determined by this longdebate, Morris was given the task of embodying the prevailing viewsin a draft of instructions to commissioners of peace later to b» ap-pointed. His draft was adopted by
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