At Mingo Creek he had thwarted the plans of immediate revolution.

The evident policy of moderate men was to prevent any violence before the convention at Parkinson's Ferry should meet, and to bend all their energies to control the deliberations of that body.

The people of Pittsburgh were intensely excited by the armed gathering almost at their doors.
Brackenridge felt that the only safe issue from the situation was to take part in and shape the action of that gathering.

Under his lead a committee from the Pittsburgh meeting, followed by a large body of the citizens, went out to the rendezvous.

Here they found a motley assemblage, arrayed in the picturesque campaign costume which the mountaineers wore when they equipped themselves to meet the Indians,--yellow hunting-shirts, handkerchiefs tied about their heads, and rifles on the shoulder; the militia were on foot, and the light horse of the counties were in military dress.