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Excerpt from Incidents of the Insurrection in the Western Parts of Pennsylvania, in the Year 1794
That the excii''e law was odious, and the public Voice againfi: the ofiicersg but the office of Jheriff, or confiablex carried with it the authoii''ty of law, which-the people had been in the habit, of ref eéting; and the oppofing which would be confidered infa mofis, in bpublic Opinion. I had fuppofed they would have cono fidered the marlhal in the light of a iherifi'', or judicial o?icer, and would not molefi; him: However, it (0 happened, that I was mifiaken in my confidence of his fecurityo for the evening of the next day, having been out in company with the infpec tor of the revenue for the difirié''t, John Neville, ferving fome remaining wi''lts upon diihllers, in the county of Alleghany, he returned with an unfavourable account of his receptionq He had ferved the laft writ he had to ferve, in that quarter, and had juft quitted the houfe of a difiiller, of the name of Miller, when a number of men were obferved to be in purfuit of them, and a gun was difcharged The marihal conceiving it not to be with a View to injure, but intimidate, turned and expoftu (if his father, to deliver up Deliv''er if Ufiligfalg''irt.
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That the excii''e law was odious, and the public Voice againfi: the ofiicersg but the office of Jheriff, or confiablex carried with it the authoii''ty of law, which-the people had been in the habit, of ref eéting; and the oppofing which would be confidered infa mofis, in bpublic Opinion. I had fuppofed they would have cono fidered the marlhal in the light of a iherifi'', or judicial o?icer, and would not molefi; him: However, it (0 happened, that I was mifiaken in my confidence of his fecurityo for the evening of the next day, having been out in company with the infpec tor of the revenue for the difirié''t, John Neville, ferving fome remaining wi''lts upon diihllers, in the county of Alleghany, he returned with an unfavourable account of his receptionq He had ferved the laft writ he had to ferve, in that quarter, and had juft quitted the houfe of a difiiller, of the name of Miller, when a number of men were obferved to be in purfuit of them, and a gun was difcharged The marihal conceiving it not to be with a View to injure, but intimidate, turned and expoftu (if his father, to deliver up Deliv''er if Ufiligfalg''irt.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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