By Mr. Means:
Q. You determined to make a fight before you called on the military?
A. That is the English of it.
Q. And to head the police yourself?
A. I did, sir. I head them all the time. I thought that was my place.
Q. In case of a … occurring in any part of the city, did you regard it as your duty to visit the point and ascertain?
A. Yes. I was up day and night for a week, and I was nearly worn out. I kept the battery in camp in the city hall yard. Kept them there day and night, and had these veteran soldiers sleep on the floor of city hall, so that we could call on them at any moment.
Q. Would you consider it your duty to have called out a posse of citizens, and to exhaust your power in that direction, before calling on the State for military aid.
A. Most decidedly. I had arranged and published hand-bills all over the city, that at ten taps of the bell the citizens of Allegheny were to come forward to protect their firesides and homes. I swore in a goodly number of them to go on duty.
Q. You did swear them in?