They feel betrayed by the government they fought to create and now choose to confront the authority they’ve been told to answer to. Many members of the angry mob are veterans of the Revolution. If this plan fails, they will no longer only threaten violence. The rebels it passes through, who have swarmed at the edges of town over the previous few days, threatening violence, are regular people just like you - when they don’t face oppression and restrictions on their freedom. The wagon you and your neighbors loaded is click-clacking up the hill. Your view of town - which, in the next few years, will be incorporated as the city of Pittsburgh - is barren streets and quiet docks. Standing where the slow slope of your eight-acre farm meets the Allegheny River, your eyes pass over the buildings your neighbors call home, searching. Near the banks of the river, mosquitoes swarm, flying about your head, threatening to plunge into your skin.
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