Turn Their Own Method Against Them (Asking for Double Monthly Tickets)

The United States would not indulge these "troublemakers." Minister of Justice Jennings Randolph immediately mobilized the militia to disperse the marchers.

The marchers did not put up much resistance—if told to leave, they left. But they simply looped around the streets and went to the entrance of the Federal Court to continue shouting slogans.

Well, one-third of them were paid to do the job, so they appeared extremely "professional." They had planned their course of action a week in advance, including how to expand their influence and how to respond if they encountered the militia.

Thus, although Randolph had mobilized more than a thousand militiamen and guarded every important department in Philadelphia with utmost vigilance, he still could not douse the marchers' surging passion.

The salaries of these "professionals" all came from an organization called the Association for Relief of Independence War Disabled.

The Association's purpose was "to allow American citizens harmed by British colonizers to survive."

Naturally, the Association's staff deeply hated the British invaders who had once harmed American citizens. That was entirely reasonable.

So, after hearing that the British had begun a war against their dear French Friend, the Association furiously organized this massive march.

The Association's funds mainly came from Plantation Owners in Georgia and South Carolina, most of whom were of French Descent—after Booker's army of black slaves had ravaged the area, French merchants, acting on the Minister of Trade's advice, had bought up vast numbers of Cotton plantations in both places at rock-bottom prices.

At the beginning of the year, in order to repay the United States, they funded the establishment of the Association for Relief of Independence War Disabled at the call of John Castle, a moderately well-known lawyer and orator.

No one knew that Mr. Castle had another identity: he was a