A meeting was held; James Ross of the United States Senate made an earnest appeal, and was supported by Scott of the House of Representatives and Stokely of the Senate of Pennsylvania.

Marshall and Bradford yielded, and consented to countermand the order of rendezvous.

But the excited population poured into the town from all quarters, and Bradford, who found that he had gone too far to retreat, again took the lead of the movement, already beyond restraint.
There are accounts of this formidable insurrection by H.H.

Brackenridge and William Findley, eye-witnesses.

These supply abundant details.
Findley says that he knew that the movement would not stop at the limit apparently set for it.