. St. Nicholas [serial]. %* Aroisa !?©!?#©]? ^®ss. Great was the excitement in the little vil-lage of Bedford, Pennsylvania, on October 19,1794; for everybody knew that General Wash-ington might be expected to arrive before night-fall, and would probably remain several days,planning the campaign against the moonshiners. For these were the days of the Whisky In-surrection, when the illegal distillers in westernPennsylvania had become so numerous and sodaring as to organize a large armed force, bid-ding defiance to the revenue officers and smallbodies of troops sent out against them. Re-peated w
. St. Nicholas [serial]. %* Aroisa !?©!?#©]? ^®ss. Great was the excitement in the little vil-lage of Bedford, Pennsylvania, on October 19,1794; for everybody knew that General Wash-ington might be expected to arrive before night-fall, and would probably remain several days,planning the campaign against the moonshiners. For these were the days of the Whisky In-surrection, when the illegal distillers in westernPennsylvania had become so numerous and sodaring as to organize a large armed force, bid-ding defiance to the revenue officers and smallbodies of troops sent out against them. Re-peated warnings from the government had onlystimulated them to a more determined resis-tance, until the lawlessness assumed such pro-portions that President Washington, then in hissecond term, called out the militia of New Jer-sey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia toquell the insurgents. Generals Morgan and South commanded theVirginia and Maryland troops, which consti-tuted the left wing, their rendezvous beingat Cumberla
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