A committee of conspicuous Democrats in Philadelphia, including Hon. John Cadwalader, James Page, John W. Forney, A. L. Roumfort, Charles Ingersoll, Joseph Swift and others, in an “open letter,” loudly demanded of the Governor that he act for the vindication of the Commonwealth and called a public indignation meeting of citizens in Independence Square. The Governor responded with a rather tart letter and offered $1,000 reward for the arrest of the murderers. The _Intelligencer_ continued to comment on the tragedy as “the legitimate fruit of the policies pursued by Governor Johnston and Thaddeus Stevens.” It criticized Johnston very severely for having passed Christiana without instituting any “measures to bring the murderers to justice” before proceeding on his way; for making political speeches “instead of seeing that the perpetrators of treason against the government and the most bloody murder ever committed in this State were brought to justice.” Governor Johnston was at Ephrata and New Holland on the following Saturday, he came to Lancaster on Saturday night, left at midnight for Philadelphia, and arrived there about five o’clock A.M. Meantime Rev. J. S. Gorsuch, son of Edward Gorsuch and brother of Dickinson, wrote to the Baltimore _Sun_ an account of the tragedy, which was copied into the _Intelligencer_ and other Northern papers as an accurate statement. Subsequently he published an open letter to Governor Johnston, arraigning him for a lack of official promptness which resulted in the slaves and murderers of his father escaping. He recalled that Johnston had refused to honor a requisition from the Governor of Maryland for the free negro, Abe Johnson, who had received the stolen wheat, and he declares that that same Johnson whose return was refused by the Governor, was present at the riot. He proceeded to contrast Johnston’s tardiness with “the decision, energy and promptness of the Lancaster County officers,” who, he said, “had to collect a posse of men from iron works and diggings on the railroad” to enforce the processes of the law. The newspapers report that Alderman Reigart was “receiving much commendation in the Southern press for the ability and firmness with which he discharged his duties as the committing magistrate.” In the Baltimore _Sun_ of October 8, Rev. J. S. Gorsuch had another open letter, this time to Attorney General Franklin. Gorsuch had undertaken to criticise Governor Johnston without in any way condemning his Attorney General. Mr. Franklin had vindicated his chief, by declaring that he had done his full duty, and as his legal adviser the Attorney General accepted all the responsibility for the Governor’s conduct.