. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. aiCc^f^^^^cyt^^t^ci^ 432 NEW JERSEY AS A COLONY part, the route taken by his predecessor. A spe-cial train conveyed the President and distinguishedguests from the capital of the United States toNew York. A change of plans necessitated theabandonment of a popular reception in Trenton,and the train passed through the town to Eliza-beth, where President Harrison was the guest ofthe then governor, Eobert Stockton Green. Atruly royal welcome awaited the successor ofGeneral Washington, and there the enthusiasmand patriotism of a
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen. aiCc^f^^^^cyt^^t^ci^ 432 NEW JERSEY AS A COLONY part, the route taken by his predecessor. A spe-cial train conveyed the President and distinguishedguests from the capital of the United States toNew York. A change of plans necessitated theabandonment of a popular reception in Trenton,and the train passed through the town to Eliza-beth, where President Harrison was the guest ofthe then governor, Eobert Stockton Green. Atruly royal welcome awaited the successor ofGeneral Washington, and there the enthusiasmand patriotism of all New Jersey found its ex-pression. To commemorate this occasion the New JerseyHistorical Society, upon the occasion of its fiftiethanniversary, in May, 1895, in Newark, presentedex-President Harrison with a gold medal of ex-quisite beauty and workmanship, tendered on thepart of the society by President Austin Scott, ofRutgers WASHINGTON TAKING THE OATH AS PRBSIDKNT. CHAPTER XXVII New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Insurrec-tion OF 1794 [Vol. 2] THE earliest of open protests againstthe policy of the federal leaders wasthe Whiskey War, or the Penn-sylvania Insurrection, which sodeeply stirred the western part ofthat State and, in 1794, culminated in open law-lessness among the anti-Federalist Scotch-Irishsettlers of Washington, Westmoreland, Fayette,and Allegheny Counties. In accordance with Alexander Hamiltons planfor raising revenue by the establishment of an in-direct tax Congress, in the year 1791, levied dutiesnot only upon all distilled liquors, but upon thestills in which such liquors were made. Fromthe view-point of those who opposed the act the whiskey tax, as it was called, was unjust, in thatit interfered with the right to use a beverage dis-tilled from rye, which, as the Pennsylvaniansclaimed, should be as free for consumption aswater. Further such legislation was unconstitu-tional, and lastly it was
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