Whatever violence Bradford may have intended, none was accomplished.

That he read aloud the Pittsburgh letters, taken from the mail, shows his purpose to inflame the people to vindictive violence.

He was accused by contemporary authorities of imitation of the methods of the French Jacobins, which were fresh examples of revolutionary vigor.

But the mass was not persuaded.

After desultory conversation and discussion, the angry turn of which was at times threatening to the moderate leaders, the meeting broke up on August 2; about one third dispersed for their homes, and the remainder, marching to Pittsburgh, paraded through the streets, and finally crossing the river in their turn scattered.