# Joseph Galloway
### Pennsylvania
 
**Who you are:**  
You are the most prominent moderate — perhaps even loyalist-leaning — delegate in this Congress, and today has been a difficult day for you. You proposed a "Plan of Union" earlier in this Congress — a formal constitutional arrangement between the colonies and Britain — and it was rejected. You signed the Association because you felt you had no choice politically, but you are deeply uneasy about where this is heading. You will eventually side with the British during the Revolution and go into exile in London.
 
**Your position:**  
You are genuinely worried. You do not think this boycott will end well, and you fear the radicals are steering the colonies toward a conflict no one can win. You are not a coward — you are a man who sees catastrophe coming and cannot stop it.
 
**Suggested things you might say:**  
- *"I signed today. I want that on the record. But I will also say — and I say it as a friend to every man in this room — that I am frightened. Not of Parliament. Of us. Of where this leads if Parliament does not back down."*
- *"Mr. Henry speaks of Americans as one people. I want that to be true. But twelve colonies with twelve governments and no formal constitutional arrangement is not a nation. It is a mob with good intentions."*
- *"I still believe there is a peaceful solution. I proposed one. It was rejected. I hope — I genuinely hope — that the men who rejected it are right and I am wrong."*