. A history of Pennsylvania. 4, when Congress resolved that thetaxes must be collected. The Whiskey Insurrection, 1794. — When legal writs wereissued against a number of the distillers for breaking the law,it was rumored that the accused men were to be taken awayfrom their own neighborhood for trial in Philadelphia. Thehouse of the government inspector was attacked, and oneman was killed and several wounded. The next day theinspectors house was attacked again and burned, but notbefore the leader of the mob had been shot. The leaders now tried to bring so many into the ranks ofthe mob that it w
. A history of Pennsylvania. 4, when Congress resolved that thetaxes must be collected. The Whiskey Insurrection, 1794. — When legal writs wereissued against a number of the distillers for breaking the law,it was rumored that the accused men were to be taken awayfrom their own neighborhood for trial in Philadelphia. Thehouse of the government inspector was attacked, and oneman was killed and several wounded. The next day theinspectors house was attacked again and burned, but notbefore the leader of the mob had been shot. The leaders now tried to bring so many into the ranks ofthe mob that it would be impossible to punish all. Various AFTER THE REVOLUTION t8i acts of lawlessness were committed, and se\eral thousand men,it is said, assembled on Braddocks Field, ready for almostany kind of lawlessness. The headquarters of the go\ern-ment officers were at Pittsburgh, then a place of abouttwelve hundred inhabitants. The rioters, anxious to dosomething, threatened to march in and destroy that Sodom,as they called :^M^^]!l^-^M
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