This is Findley's recollection, but Brackenridge says that it was a flag of seven stars for the four western counties, Bedford, and the two counties of Virginia.

This, he adds, was the first and only manifestation among any class of a desire to separate from the Union.

But here his memory failed him.
Hamilton had long been impatient.

Again, as in old days, he presented his arguments directly to the people.

Under the heading, "Tully to the people of the United States," he printed a letter on August 26, of which the following is a passage:-- "Your representatives in Congress, pursuant to the commission derived from you, and with a full knowledge of the public exigencies, have laid an excise.