It was left to John C.Hamilton, half a century later, to charge a want of courage upon Gallatin,--a baseless charge.[3] Not Malesherbes, the noble advocate defending the accused monarch before the angry French convention, with the certainty of the guillotine as the reward of his generosity, is more worthy of admiration than Gallatin boldly pleading the cause of order within rifle range of an excited band of lawless frontiersmen.

If, as he confessed later, in his part in the Pittsburgh resolutions he was guilty of "a political sin," he nobly atoned for it under circumstances that would have tried the courage of men bred to danger and to arms.

Sin it was, and its consequences were not yet summed up.

For although the back of the insurrection was broken at Red Stone Old Fort, there was much yet to be done before submission could be completed.
Bradford attempted to sign, but found that his course at Red Stone Old Fort had placed him outside the amnesty.

Well might the moderate men say in their familiar manner of Scripture allusion, "Dagon is fallen." He fled down the Ohio and Mississippi to Louisiana, then foreign soil.