element, some of his warmest personal and political friends were Loyalists. For a long time, the cause in Pennsylvania was in great doubt. In addition to the fact that the ruling element of the population was almost ex- clusively British, the further fact that almost two thirds of the population were

The Loyalists in the Revolution. First Paper. BY FRANK R. DIFFENDERFFER, LITT.D. INTRODUCTION We are so far removed from the days of the Revolution, and most of us know of it only through the medium of school or popular histories, that we have a very inadequate, and I may add an improper idea of