"The opposing one law would lead to oppose another; they would finally oppose all, and demand a new modeling of the Constitution, and there would be a revolution." There was great alarm in Pittsburgh.

A meeting was held there Thursday evening, July 31, at which a message from the Washington County insurgents was read, violent resolutions adopted, and the 9th of August appointed as the day for a town meeting for election of delegates to a general convention of the counties at Parkinson's Ferry; Judge Brackenridge of Pittsburgh, a man of education, influence, and infinite jest and humor, was present at this meeting.

Of Scotch-Irish birth himself, his sympathies of race were with his countrymen, but in political sentiments he was not in harmony with their leaders.

They were nearly all Republicans, while he had sided with the Federalists in the convention which adopted the new Constitution of the United States.

He was a man of peace, and of too much sagacity not to foresee the inevitable ruin upon which they were rushing.