Mr.Gallatin himself, inquiring as to their significance and expressing to the men engaged the hope that they would not behave like a mob, was asked, in return, if he was not aware of the Westmoreland resolution that any one calling the people a mob should be tarred and feathered,--an amusing example of that mob logic which proves the affirmative of the proposition it denies.
Mr.Gallatin did not attend the meeting at Braddock's Field.

Somewhat isolated at his residence at the southerly border of the county, engaged in the care of his long neglected farm, and in the full enjoyment of release from the bustle and excitement of public life, he had paid little attention to passing events.

He was preparing definitively to abandon political pursuits and to follow some kind of mercantile business, or take up some land speculation and study law in his intervals of leisure.

It was not a year since he had given hostages to fortune.

He was now in the full tide of domestic happiness, which was always to him the dearest and most coveted.