The next day, September 25, Washington issued a proclamation calling out the troops.

In it he again warned the insurgents.

The militia, already armed, accoutred, and equipped, and awaiting marching orders, moved at once.

Governor Mifflin at first hesitated about his power to call out the militia, but when the President's requisition was made, he summoned the legislature in special session, and obtained from it a hearty support, with authority to accept volunteers and offer a bounty.

Thus fortified, he made a tour through the lower counties of the State, and by his extraordinary popular eloquence soon filled up the ranks.