zens, according to their
respective duties and the law of the land, to exert their utmost
endeavors to prevent and suppress such dangerous proceedings.

"In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States
of America to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same
with my hand. Done at the city of Philadelphia, the seventh day of
August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and of the
independence of the United States of America the nineteenth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON"

[69] The following is a copy of the second proclamation:--

"Whereas, from a hope that the combination against the constitution
and laws of the United States, in certain of the western counties
of Pennsylvania, would yield to time and reflection, I thought it
sufficient, in the first instance, rather to _take measures_ for
calling forth the militia than immediately to embody them; but the
moment is now come when the overtures of forgiveness, with no other
condition than a submission to law, have been only partially
accepted; when every form of conciliation not inconsistent with the
being of government has been adopted without effect; when the
well-disposed in those counties are unable by their influence and
example to reclaim the wicked from their fury, and are compelled to
associate in their own defence; when the proffered lenity has been
perversely misinterpreted into an apprehension that the citizens
will march with reluctance; when the opportunity of examining the
serious consequences of a treasonable opposition has been employed
in propagating principles of anarchy, endeavoring through
emissaries to alienate the friends of order from its support, and
inviting its enemies to perpetrate similar acts of insurrection;
when it is manifest that violence would continue to be exercised
upon every attempt to enforce the laws; when, therefore, government
is set at defiance, the contest being whether a small portion of
the United States shall dictate to the whole Union, and, at the
expense of those who desire peace, indulge a desperate ambition:

"Now, therefore, I, George Washington, president of the United
States, in obedience to that high and irresistible duty consigned
to me by the constitution 'to take care that the laws be faithfully
executed,' deploring that