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Title: Canonsburg centennial
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Canonsburg, Pa. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Pittsburgh, Pa., Pittsburgh printing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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posed to rebellion. They had never been in bondage toany man. Living with rifle in hand, self-reliant, self-sus-taining, they followed and obeyed leaders of their ownchoosing, and only those so long as their sovereign pleasurewilled it. The land was theirs, they had driven the Indianand cleared the forest from the face of it. The crops weretheirs, for in the sweat of their brows they had sown andharvested them. By their own hands, they had convertedthe product of their land into another form. Could it thenbe credited that a something called a Federal Governmentthree hundred miles away, should have the right to stopthem between the farm and the market place, and levy aruinous toll on this that was their very own? People of the Anglo-Saxon race have ever been proneto resent by something more than words that which theybelieve to be an invasion of their rights, and these werepeople with whom the thought and the act lay very close to-gether. Protests being unheeded, violence soon followed.
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Canonsburg Centennial 57 How the mail was stopped and the mail bag opened; howMr. Nevilles house was attacked and burned; how the in-surgents were summoned to arms; and how the whole move-ment collapsed with the appearance of the Federal troops.Are not all these things written in the book of the chroniclesof Western Pennsylvania. In all these things Col. Canontook an important, and to his credit be it said, an undis-guised part. He was present that night in the tavern atCanonsburg when the mail was opened, and his is the firstname signed to the famous call for the armed gathering atBraddocks Field, on August ist, 1794. If it be true, as some assert, that Alexander Hamiltonbrought on the trouble, or rather forced it to a head in orderthat he might demonstrate the existence of a National Gov-ernment, it certainly must be conceded that he accomplishedhis purpose. The young nation that had so recently seateditself in Philadelphia, struck but once and needed not tostrike a second time, and

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