to justice; for seizing the stills of delinquent distillers, as far as the same shall be deemed eligible by the supervisor of the revenue, or chief officer of inspection; and also for conveying to places of safe custody such persons as may be apprehended and not admitted to bail. The objects of judiciary process, and other civil proceedings, will be 1. To bring offenders to justice. 2. To enforce penalties on delinquent distillers by suit. 3. To enforce the penalty of forfeiture on the same persons, by the seizure of their stills and spirits. The better to effect these purposes, the judge of the district, Richard Peters, Esquire, and the attorney of the district, William Rawle, Esquire, accompany the army. You are aware that the judge cannot be controlled in his functions; but I count on his disposition to co-operate in such a general plan as shall appear to you consistent with the policy of the case. But your method of giving a direction to legal proceedings, according to your general plan, will be by instruction to the district attorney. He ought particularly to be instructed, (with due regard to time and circumstances,) 1st. To procure to be arrested all influential actors in riots and unlawful assemblies relating to the insurrection, and combinations to resist the laws, or having for object to abet that insurrection and those combinations, and who shall not have complied with the terms offered by the Commissioners, or manifested their repentance in some other way, which you may deem satisfactory. 2d. To cause process to issue for enforcing penalties on delinquent distillers. 3d. To cause offenders who may be arrested, to be conveyed to jails where there will be no danger of rescue; those for misdemeanors, to the jails of York and Lancaster; those for capital offences, to the jail of Philadelphia, as more secure than the others. 4th. To prosecute indictable offences in the courts of the United States; those for penalties on delinquents, under the laws before mentioned, in the courts of Pennsylvania. As a guide in the case, the district attorney has with him a list of the persons who have availed themselves of the offers of the commissioners on the day appointed. The seizure of stills is the province of the supervisor and other officers of inspection. It is difficult to chalk out the precise line concerning it. There are opposite considerations which will require to be nicely balanced, and which must be judged of by those officers on the spot. It may be found useful to confine the seizures to stills of the most leading and refractory distillers. It may be advisable to extend them far in the most refractory county. When the insurrection is subdued, and the requisite means have been put in execution to secure obedience to the laws, so as to render it proper for the army to retire, (an event which you will accelerate as much as shall be consistent with the object,) you will endeavor to make an arrangement for detaching such a force as you deem adequate, to be stationed within the disaffected country, in such a manner as best to afford protection to welldisposed citizens and to the officers of the revenue, and to repress, by their presence, the spirit of riot and opposition to the laws. But before you withdraw the army, you will promise, on behalf of the President, a general pardon to all such as shall not have been arrested, with such exceptions as you shall deem proper. The promise must be so guarded as not to affect pecuniary claims under the revenue laws. In this measure, it is advisable there should be a co-operation with the Governor of Pennysylvania. On the return of the army you will adopt some convenient and certain arrangement for restoring to the public magazines, the arms, accoutrements, military stores, tents, and other articles of camp equipage and intrenching tools, which have been furnished, and shall not have been consumed or lost. You are to exert yourself by all possible means to preserve discipline among the troops, particularly a scrupulous regard to the rights of persons and property, and to a respect for the authority of the civil magistrate; taking especial care to inculcate and cause to be observed this principle: that the duties of the army are confined to the attacking and subduing of armed oppo nents of the laws, and to the supporting and aiding of the civil officers in the execution of their functions. It has been settled that the Governor of Pennsylvania will be second, the Governor of New Jersey third in command, and that the troops of the several States in line, on the march and upon detachment, are to be posted according to the rule which prevailed in the army during the late war; namely, in moving towards the sea-board, the most southern troops will take the right; in moving westward, the most northern will take the right. These general instructions, however, are to be considered as liable to such alterations and deviations in the detail, as from local and other causes may be found necessary, the better to effect the main object upon the general principles which have been indicated. With great respect, I have the honor to be, sir, To Major General LEE. ALEXANDER HAMILTON. WASHINGTON TO HAMILTON. DEAR SIR: HARTLEY'S, Tuesday evening, 21st October, 1794. From Colonel Mentges' information, there are detachments of militia a considerable distance in the rear, composed in part, of those whose march was designed to be arrested. He adds, many of them are illy clad. This being the case, it appears to me, that an expense without an equivalent advantage, would result from bringing them forward;, and that the clothes which they must draw to fit them for service, would be actually thrown. away. Under this view of the matter, and a full persuasion that the army which is already advanced, is more than competent to any opposition that can be given by the insurgents-I request that you would advise with Governors Mifflin and Howell, (after receiving the fullest information from Mentges,) and cause all which in your opinions cannot be up in time-all who are inadequately clothed in the rear-and in a word, all who do not upon mature consideration of circumstances appear to be essential, to return, that the country may not be unnecessarily burthened with the clothing, pay and rations of them. Open all letters of a public nature which may come to the army addressed to me, and such as are in the military line and relating to the business you are upon, hand over to the Commanding General. HAMILTON TO WASHINGTON. SIR: BERLIN, 3d day's march, October 25th, 1794, We arrived here this afternoon. A very heavy rain has rendered the march extremely arduous and distressing; but we find here much better shelter than was foreseen. Our baggage and stores are just beginning to arrive. The Jersey line and brigade of cavalry took the right-hand road, about five miles back. To-morrow we shall continue our march, and I hope that we shall conform to the general arrangement, though we must shorten to-morrow's march, and lengthen that of the day fol lowing. The troops have shown all the patience that could have been expected. In short, I perceive nothing amiss. Bradford and Fulton, it is said, are gone off. By tracing time, it is not probable they were at all influenced by the arrests of Husbands and Phelson. With the highest respect, and truest attachment, I have the honor to be, &c. SIR: HAMILTON TO WASHINGTON. BERLIN, October 26th, 1794. The very late arrival of the wagons, the injury to a number of them, and the dispersed situation of the troops, render it impracticable to leave this place to-day, as was intended; but the baggage and stores go forward, and to-morrow the troops must move. I apprehend no material derangement of the general plan. An express has been dispatched to Governor Lee, advising him of the state of things here. Nothing from the Western country. With the greatest respect and attachment, &c. WASHINGTON TO HAMILTON. DEAR SIR: SUSQUEHANNA (Wright's Ferry), Oct. 26th, 1794. A little advanced of this, yesterday afternoon, I met an express with the letters herewith inclosed for you, with others for the army, with which I have directed him to proceed. Thus far, I have proceeded without accident to man, horse, or carriage, although the latter has had wherewith to try its goodness; especially in ascending the North mountain, from Skinner's, by a wrong road; that is, by the old road, which never was good, and is rendered next to impassable by neglect. I heard great complaints of Gurney's corps (and some of the artillery), along the road to Strasburgh; there I parted from their route. In some places, I was told, they did not leave a plate, a spoon, a glass, or a knife; and this owing, in a great measure, I was informed, to their being left without officers. At most, if not all, the encampments, I found the fences, in a manner, burnt up. I pray you to mention this to Governor Mifflin |