th and
seventeenth of July last, proceeded in arms (on the second day
amounting to several hundred) to the house of John Neville,
inspector of the revenues for the fourth survey of the districts of
Pennsylvania--having repeatedly attacked the said house with the
persons therein, wounding some of them; having seized David Lenox,
marshal of the district of Pennsylvania, who previously thereto had
been fired upon while in the execution of his duty by a party of
men, detaining him for some time prisoner, till for the
preservation of his life and obtaining of his liberty he found it
necessary to enter into stipulations to forbear the execution of
certain official duties, touching processes issuing out of the
court of the United States; and having finally obliged the said
inspector of the revenue and the marshal, from considerations of
personal safety, to fly from this part of the country, in order, by
a circuitous route, to proceed to the seat of government, avowing
as the motives of these outrageous proceedings an intention to
prevent by force of arms the execution of the said laws, to oblige
the said inspector of the revenues to renounce his office, to
withstand by open violence the lawful authority of the government
of the United States, and to compel thereby an alteration in the
measures of the legislature, and a repeal of the laws aforesaid:
and whereas, by a law of the United States entitled, 'An act to
provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the
Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions,' it is enacted,
'that whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or
the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too
powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial
proceedings, or by the power vested in the marshals by that act,
the same being notified by an associate justice or the district
judges, it shall be lawful for the president of the United States
to call forth the militia of said state to suppress such
combinations, and to cause the laws to be duly executed. And if the
militia of a state, where such combinations may happen, shall
refuse or shall be insufficient to suppress the same, it shall be
lawful for the president, if the legislature of the United States
shall not be i