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| lhe experiment was new DUt n'SESo0i


some it was considered that the fate OF the he


public depended upon the issue.
1 Having taken the preliminary measures deeineo
requisite, the President issued proclamation
warning the insurgents to desst from further ot'-
position TO the laws, and requiring them 10 ois


perse and retire 10 their respective homes py ule
first of the following September. Al the u,Ie VI


issuing the proclamation, the Governors VI -,e"-
Jersey. Pennsylvania, Maryland and VlIg1nia'
were called on for their quotas OF ABOUT Twelve
thonsand men. TO be organized to marcn at a
ronnte,s warning The number OF troops was
af,ervard augmented to fifteen thousand.


General Washington being unwilling to resort
to military coercion until every other expedient
had failed, made one more peaceab!e effort TO
bring the disafieccd to sense Of Their duty. lie
appointed James Ross Jasper Yates, and William
Bradford gentlemen distinguished for their talents
and integrity, Commissioners to repair TO the
scene OF the instruction, for the purpose OF con-
lerring with the insurgents. These Commission
ers were empowered to promise amnesty and
perpetual oblivion of the past, on condition OF ll-
ture submission to the laws. Two Commission
ers were appointed By the State of Pennsylvania,
to Join with those on the part Of the United
| States.


Previous TO this, by the orders of Bradford,
/


United States Mail was stopped by force, and
sundry letters from gentlemen at Pittsburgh, CIV
ing an account Of the proceedings Of the lnsur-
gents, were taken out and opened. The authors
! Of these letters became extremely obnoxious to
Bradford and his associates, who issued circulars
to officers of the militia calling them 10 meet
with others as volunteers at the celebrated BRAD
! docks Field. with arms and dccoMtremenS III
rood order The real object of this dntf-tempe-
! rance meeting, as previously arranged by lhe
leaders. though disclosed to few only, was to
attack the garrison at Pittsburgh and seize the
! arms and ammunition there for thelrown defence.
This project however, when disclosed to some
who were less rash and impetuous was consld-
! cred too daring to be carried into execution and
before the time of meeting was rehnqulshed.-
Several thousands, however, met at the place OF
rendezvous, many with arms, and were harangucd
and reviewed by Bradford, who assumed the
command Little was actually done at tins
meeting, except ordering Gen Gibson and Col.
Nevil, the authors of the letters robbed from the
mail, to be expelled from Pittsburgh


meeting of about two hundred delegates
fro,n four of the western counties OF Pennsylva-
MIA and from the county of Ohio in Virginia was
held at Parhinsons ferry on the 18th August 19l.
Edward Cooke was elected chairman, and Albert
| Gallatin Secretary. The meeting which was held
in the field was opened by Bradford, in an intlam
matory harangue and comments on the letters
| taken from the mail Mr.. Marshall, one Of those
who called the meeting at Braddock's Field, then
introduced sundry resolutions, one of which pro-
posed ga Committee Of Public Safety, whose
duty it should be to call forth the resources Of
the western country to repel any hostile attempts
that might be made against the citizens or the
BODY of the people," This proposition, which
was an open and avowed act Of rebellion, was
opposed by Mr. Gallatin, and after some delay,
the mover proposed to withdraw 1t, provided a
Committee of Sixty should be appointed with
power to call another meeting. The resolutions
offered by Mr. Marshall were referred to com
mittec and after being amended and modified,
were passed. (Pitkin)


Owing to the efforts OF Mr. Gaatn and others
in favor of moderate course the resolutions as
adopted were less exceptionable than might have
been expected from this meeting. BY one reso-
luton a committee was appointed to draft remon-
STRANGE to Congress, and praying for repeal OF
the excise laws, and to give assurances that less
odous tax, If substituted, should be faithfully
paid another committee was appointed TO meet
the Commissioners of the Government. and to
report the result of their conference TO the stand
ING committee. Many spectators were present at
this convention. A liberty pole was erected IN
view of the meeting with this motto: Liberty
and no erciSe, and no asglum for comGrdS or
traitors"


The meeting being dissolved, the Standing
Committee of Sixty agreed TO meet at Rcdstone
Old Fort, on the second Of September. The
Commissioners of the General Government met
confcrecs from the Committee ut Pittsburgh, ana
the former proposed general amnesty on conoi-
ton of submission to the laws This the comic
Ill to fb. al
ford The result beng made known to the
Standing Committee of Sixty at Redstonc, pro-
duced warm and violent debates, as the restless
| and turbulent spirits not vet willing TO
! weld. Bradford recommended perseverance IN
the opposition to the establishment OF the laws.
and urged the establishment OF an independent
Government west of the Allegheny Mountains,
declaring that the General Government had been
only lrfng with Spain shout the Mississippi
navigation, and with Great Britain respecting
the Indians. Being independent, he SAID, they
could settle these disputes in a short period


Although the Committee of Conference urged
the acceptance of the proposition OF the Commls-
sionerr in full, yet small majority only OF the
Committee OF Sixty could be procured To declare,
and that bg ballot, by which the votes of indi.
viduals were concealed, that in the opinion of the
Committee it was for the interest of the people
10 aCCeuc 10 IT, III was DcileNcU tiitl ii ic quts-
ton had been taken publicly, such the ap-
prehcnSion of resentment from the people, that II
would have been ncgatived


As no reliance could be placed upon the pro
cccdings of,he General Committee, twas deemed
proper to refer the SUBJECT TO the people them
selves. II was therefore agreed 6v the Commit
tee and Commissioners that the sense OF the pco-
pie should be taken publicly IN townships, and
that each individual should subscribe declara-
ton to submit to the laws OF the United States
This measure proved inefeclual. and the Com: