One is that the backdown is not only due to the strike of merchants, but to a fear that the soldiers could no longer be counted upon.
"Letters from China and Japan"
John Dewey Alice Chipman Dewey
Stephen Miller, a nephew of my mother-in-law, and afterwards governor of Minnesota, was on a visit to Harrisburg during all this trouble, and when he returned, he flew into a towering rage over what he termed the cowardly backdown of the printing company, and published a card in the St. Paul papers, washing his hands of it.
"Half a Century"
Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm
Hard words and a wrangle followed, but Smith did not change expression, and there was a backdown.
"Whispering Smith"
Frank H. Spearman