Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . the law, as in thewestern counties of Pennsylvania, where the crops of grainwere so over-abundant, that, in the absence of an adequatemarket for its sale, an immense quantity of the cereal w
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . the law, as in thewestern counties of Pennsylvania, where the crops of grainwere so over-abundant, that, in the absence of an adequatemarket for its sale, an immense quantity of the cereal wasdistilled into whiskey,—the far-famed Monongahela, socalled from the name of the principal river of the region wherethe manufacture was carried on. It was insisted upon, bythese people, that an article produced so exclusively, by anisolated community, as their sole and necessary dependence,ought not to be taxed for the support of the federal government; and this ojiinionthey adiiered to — as the following pages will be found to show — with a of a better cause, notwithstanding the day of temperance societies had notthen dawnefL Public meetings were held in all the chief towns, at which the action of congresswas loudly denounced as oppression to be battled against to the very last extremity; -<^^ CAUSES OF TIIK WHISKEY IS-StJRUECTION IK PENN. GEEAT AND MEMORABLE EVENTS. 161. declaring, too, that anyperson who had acceptedor might accept an officeunder government, in or-der to carry the law intoeffect, should be regardedas an enemy of his country,to be treated with contemptand total non-intercourse,official and personal. Thefederal government wasscoffed at, its coerciveauthority disavowed; thus,with the motto, Libvrfijand No Excise ! the ballof rebellion rolled on. It was at this stage inthe progress of affairs, andonly one day preceding theassembling of an import-ant meeting of malcon-tents of Pittsburg, thatthe tax collector for thecounties of Alleghan
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