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Whiskey Rebellion

George Washington reviews the troops near Fort Cumberland, Maryland, before their march to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
Date
1791–1794
Location
primarily Western Pennsylvania
Result
Government victory
Armed resistance eliminated
Minor tax evasion
Belligerents
Frontier tax protesters United States
Commanders and leaders
Unknown, possibly none George Washington
Casualties and losses
3–4 killed
170 captured[1] None killed in action; About 12 died from illness or in accidents[2]
2 civilian casualties
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Whiskey Rebellion
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The Whiskey Rebellion (also known as the Whiskey Insurrection) was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. It became law in 1791, and was intended to generate revenue for the war debt incurred during the Revolutionary War. The tax applied to all distilled spirits, but American whiskey was by far the country's most popular distilled beverage in the 18th century, so the excise became widely known as a "whiskey tax". Farmers of the western frontier were accustomed to distilling their surplus rye, barley, wheat, corn, or fermented grain mixtures into whiskey. These farmers resisted the tax. In these regions, whiskey often served as a medium of exchange. Many of the resisters were war veterans who believed that they were fighting for the principles of the American Revolution, in particular against taxation without local representation, while the federal government maintained that the taxes were the legal expression of Congressional taxation powers.
Throughout Western Pennsylvania counties, protesters used violence and intimidation to prevent federal officials from collecting the tax. Resistance came to a climax in July 1794, when a U.S. marshal arrived in western Pennsylvania to serve writs to distillers who had not paid the excise. The alarm was raised, and more than 500 armed men attacked the fortified home of tax inspector General John Neville. Washington responded by sending peace commissioners to western Pennsylvania to negotiate with the rebels, while at the same time calling on governors to send a militia force to enforce the tax. Washington himself rode at the head of an army to suppress the insurgency, with 13,000 militiamen provided by the governors of Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The rebels all went home before the arrival of the army, and there was no confrontation. About 20 men were arrested, but all were later acquitted or pardoned. Most distillers in nearby Kentucky were found to be all but impossible to tax—in the next six years, over 175 distillers from Kentucky were convicted of violating the tax law.[3] Numerous examples of resistance are recorded in court documents and newspaper accounts.[4]
The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the will and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws, though the whiskey excise remained difficult to collect. The events contributed to the formation of political parties in the United States, a process already underway. The whiskey tax was repealed in the early 1800s during the Jefferson administration.
Contents
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1 Whiskey tax
2 Western grievances
3 Resistance
4 Insurrection
4.1 Battle of Bower Hill
4.2 March on Pittsburgh
4.3 Meeting at Whiskey Point
4.4 Federal response
4.4.1 Negotiations
4.4.2 Militia expedition
4.5 Aftermath
5 Legacy
5.1 In popular culture
6 Research materials
7 See also
8 Notes
9 Bibliography
10 Further reading
11 External links
Whiskey tax
Alexander Hamilton in a 1792 portrait by John Trumbull
A new U.S. federal government began operating in 1789, following the ratification of the United States Constitution. The previous central government under the Articles of Confederation had been unable to levy taxes; it had borrowed money to meet expenses and fund the Revolution, accumulating $54 million in debt. The state governments had amassed an additional $25 million in debt.[5] Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton sought to use this debt to create a financial system that would promote American prosperity and national unity. In his Report on Public Credit, he urged Congress to consolidate the state and national debts into a single debt that would be funded by the federal government. Congress approved these measures in June and July 1790.[6]
A source of government revenue was needed to pay the respectable amount due to the previous bondholders to whom the debt was owed. By December 1790, Hamilton believed that import duties, which were the government's primary source of revenue, had been raised as high as feasible.[7] He therefore promoted passage of an excise tax on domestically produced distilled spirits. This was to be the first tax levied by the national government on a domestic product.[8] Whiskey was by far the most popular distilled beverage in late 18th-century America, so the excise became known as the "whiskey tax." Taxes were politically unpopular, and Hamilton believed that the whiskey excise was a luxury tax and would be the least objectionable tax that the government could levy.[9] In this, he had the support of some social reformers, who hoped that a "sin tax" would raise public awareness about the harmful effects of alcohol.[10] The whiskey excise act, sometimes known as the "Whiskey Act", became law in March 1791.[11] George Washington defined the revenue districts, appointed the revenue supervisors and inspectors, and set their pay in November 1791.[12]
Western grievances
The population of Western Pennsylvania was 17,000 in 1790.[13] Among the farmers in the region, the whiskey excise was immediately controversial, with many people on the frontier arguing that it unfairly targeted westerners.[14] Whiskey was a popular drink, and farmers often supplemented their incomes by operating small stills.[15] Farmers living west of the Appalachian Mountains distilled their excess grain into whiskey, which was easier and more profitable to transport over the mountains than the more cumbersome grain. A whiskey tax would make western farmers less competitive with eastern grain producers.[16] Additionally, cash was always in short supply on the frontier, so whiskey often served as a medium of exchange. For poorer people who were paid in whiskey, the excise was essentially an income tax that wealthier easterners did not pay.[17]
Small-scale farmers also protested that Hamilton's excise effectively gave unfair tax breaks to large distillers, most of whom were based in the east. There were two methods of paying the whiskey excise: paying a flat fee or paying by the gallon. Large distillers produced whiskey in volume and could afford the flat fee. The more efficient they became, the less tax per gallon they would pay (as low as 6 cents, according to Hamilton). Western farmers who owned small stills did not usually operate them year-round at full capacity, so they ended up paying a higher tax per gallon (9 cents), which made them less competitive.[18] The regressive nature of the tax was further compounded by an additional factor: whiskey sold for considerably less on the cash-poor Western frontier than in the wealthier and more populous East. This meant that, even if all distillers had been required to pay the same amount of tax per gallon, the small-scale frontier distillers would still have to remit a considerably larger proportion of their product's value than larger Eastern distillers. Small-scale distillers believed that Hamilton deliberately designed the tax to ruin them and promote big business, a view endorsed by some historians.[19] However, historian Thomas Slaughter argued that a "conspiracy of this sort is difficult to document".[20] Whether by design or not, large distillers recognized the advantage that the excise gave them and they supported it.[21]
Other aspects of the excise law also caused concern. The law required all stills to be registered, and those cited for failure to pay the tax had to appear in distant Federal, rather than local courts. The only Federal courthouse was in Philadelphia, some 300 miles away from the small frontier settlement of Pittsburgh. From the beginning, the Federal government had little success in collecting the whiskey tax along the frontier. Many small western distillers simply refused to pay the tax. Federal revenue officers and local residents who assisted them bore the brunt of the protester's ire. Tax rebels harassed several whiskey tax collectors and threatened or beat those who offered them office space or housing. As a result, many western counties never had a resident Federal tax official.[22]
In addition to the whiskey tax, westerners had a number of other grievances with the national government, chief among which was the perception that the government was not adequately protecting the residents living in western frontier.[22] The Northwest Indian War was going badly for the United States, with major losses in 1791. Furthermore, westerners were prohibited by Spain (which then owned Louisiana) from using the Mississippi River for commercial navigation. Until these issues were addressed, westerners felt that the government was ignoring their security and economic welfare. Adding the whiskey excise to these existing grievances only increased tensions on the frontier.[23]
Resistance
Many residents of the western frontier petitioned against passage of the whiskey excise. When that failed, some western Pennsylvanians organized extralegal conventions to advocate repeal of the law.[24] Opposition to the tax was particularly prevalent in four southwestern counties: Allegheny, Fayette, Washington, and Westmoreland.[25] A preliminary meeting held on July 27, 1791 at Redstone Old Fort in Fayette County called for the selection of delegates to a more formal assembly, which convened in Pittsburgh in early September 1791. The Pittsburgh convention was dominated by moderates such as Hugh Henry Brackenridge, who hoped to prevent the outbreak of violence.[26] The convention sent a petition for redress of grievances to the Pennsylvania Assembly and the U.S House of Representatives, both located in Philadelphia.[27] As a result of this and other petitions, the excise law was modified in May 1792. Changes included a 1-cent reduction in the tax that was advocated by William Findley, a congressman from western Pennsylvania, but the new excise law was still unsatisfactory to many westerners.[28]
"Famous Whiskey Insurrection in Pennsylvania", an 1880 illustration of a tarred and feathered tax collector being made to ride the rail
Appeals to nonviolent resistance were unsuccessful. On September 11, 1791, a recently appointed tax collector named Robert Johnson was tarred and feathered by a disguised gang in Washington County.[29] A man sent by officials to serve court warrants to Johnson's attackers was whipped, tarred, and feathered.[30] Because of these and other violent attacks, the tax went uncollected in 1791 and early 1792.[31] The attackers modeled their actions on the protests of the American Revolution. Supporters of the excise argued that there was a difference between taxation without representation in colonial America, and a tax laid by the elected representatives of the American people.[32]
Older accounts of the Whiskey Rebellion portrayed it as being confined to western Pennsylvania, yet there was opposition to the whiskey tax in the western counties of every other state in Appalachia (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia).[33] The whiskey tax went uncollected throughout the frontier state of Kentucky, where no one could be convinced to enforce the law or prosecute evaders.[34][35] In 1792, Hamilton advocated military action to suppress violent resistance in western North Carolina, but Attorney General Edmund Randolph argued that there was insufficient evidence to legally justify such a reaction.[36]
In August 1792, a second convention was held in Pittsburgh to discuss resistance to the whiskey tax. This meeting was more radical than the first convention; moderates such as Brackenridge and Findley were not in attendance. Future Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin was one moderate who did attend, to his later regret.[37] A militant group known as the Mingo Creek Association dominated the convention and issued radical demands. As some of them had done in the American Revolution, they raised liberty poles, formed committees of correspondence, and took control of the local militia. They created an extralegal court and discouraged lawsuits for debt collection and foreclosures.[38]
Hamilton regarded the second Pittsburgh convention as a serious threat to the operation of the laws of the federal government. In September 1792, he sent Pennsylvania tax official George Clymer to western Pennsylvania to investigate. Clymer only increased tensions with a clumsy attempt at traveling in disguise and attempting to intimidate local officials. His somewhat exaggerated report greatly influenced the decisions made by the Washington administration.[39] Washington and Hamilton viewed resistance to federal laws in Pennsylvania as particularly embarrassing, since the national capital was then located in the same state. On his own initiative, Hamilton drafted a presidential proclamation denouncing resistance to the excise laws and submitted it to Attorney General Randolph, who toned down some of the language. Washington signed the proclamation on September 15, 1792, and it was published as a broadside and printed in many newspapers.[40]
Federal tax inspector for western Pennsylvania General John Neville was determined to enforce the excise law.[41] He was a prominent politician and wealthy planter—and also a large-scale distiller. He had initially opposed the whiskey tax, but subsequently changed his mind, a reversal that angered some western Pennsylvanians.[42] In August 1792, Neville rented a room in Pittsburgh for his tax office, but the landlord turned him out after being threatened with violence by the Mingo Creek Association.[43] From this point on, tax collectors were not the only people targeted in Pennsylvania; those who cooperated with federal tax officials also faced harassment. Anonymous notes and newspaper articles signed by "Tom the Tinker" threatened those who complied with the whiskey tax.[44] Those who failed to heed the warnings might have their barns burned or their stills destroyed.[45]
Resistance to the excise tax continued through 1793 in the frontier counties of Appalachia. Opposition remained especially strident in western Pennsylvania.[46] In June, Neville was burned in effigy by a crowd of about 100 people in Washington County.[47] On the night of November 22, 1793, men broke into the home of tax collector Benjamin Wells in Fayette County. Wells was, like Neville, one of the wealthier men in the region.[48] At gunpoint, the intruders forced him to surrender his commission.[46] President Washington offered a reward for the arrest of the assailants, to no avail.[49]
Insurrection
In his 1796 book, Congressman William Findley argued that Alexander Hamilton had deliberately provoked the Whiskey Rebellion.
The resistance came to a climax in 1794. In May of that year, federal district attorney William Rawle issued subpoenas for more than 60 distillers in Pennsylvania who had not paid the excise tax.[50] Under the law then in effect, distillers who received these writs would be obligated to travel to Philadelphia to appear in federal court. For farmers on the western frontier, such a journey was expensive, time-consuming, and beyond their means.[51] At the urging of William Findley, Congress modified this law on June 5, 1794, allowing excise trials to be held in local state courts.[52] But by that time, U.S. marshal David Lenox had already been sent to serve the writs summoning delinquent distillers to Philadelphia. Attorney General William Bradford later maintained that the writs were meant to compel compliance with the law, and that the government did not actually intend to hold trials in Philadelphia.[53]
The timing of these events later proved to be controversial. Findley was a bitter political foe of Hamilton, and he maintained in his book on the insurrection that the treasury secretary had deliberately provoked the uprising by issuing the subpoenas just before the law was made less onerous.[54] In 1963, historian Jacob Cooke, an editor of Hamilton's papers, regarded this charge as "preposterous", calling it a "conspiracy thesis" that overstated Hamilton's control of the federal government.[55] In 1986, historian Thomas Slaughter argued that the outbreak of the insurrection at this moment was due to "a string of ironic coincidences", although "the question about motives must always remain".[56] In 2006, William Hogeland argued that Hamilton, Bradford, and Rawle intentionally pursued a course of action that would provoke "the kind of violence that would justify federal military suppression".[57] According to Hogeland, Hamilton had been working towards this moment since the Newburgh Crisis in 1783, where he conceived of using military force to crush popular resistance to direct taxation for the purpose of promoting national unity and enriching the creditor class at the expense of common taxpayers.[58] Historian S. E. Morison believed that Hamilton, in general, wished to enforce the excise law "more as a measure of social discipline than as a source of revenue".[59]
Battle of Bower Hill
Federal Marshal Lenox delivered most of the writs without incident. On July 15, he was joined on his rounds by General Neville, who had offered to act as his guide in Allegheny County.[60] That evening, warning shots were fired at the men at the Miller farm, about 10 mi (16 km) south of Pittsburgh. Neville returned home while Lenox retreated to Pittsburgh.[61]
On July 16, at least 30 Mingo Creek militiamen surrounded Neville's fortified home of Bower Hill.[62] They demanded the surrender of the federal marshal, whom they believed to be inside. Neville responded by firing a gunshot that mortally wounded Oliver Miller, one of the "rebels".[63] The rebels opened fire but were unable to dislodge Neville, who had his slaves' help to defend the house.[64] The rebels retreated to nearby Couch's Fort to gather reinforcements.[65]
The next day, the rebels returned to Bower Hill. Their force had swelled to nearly 600 men, now commanded by Major James McFarlane, a veteran of the Revolutionary War.[66] Neville had also received reinforcements: 10 U.S. Army soldiers from Pittsburgh under the command of Major Abraham Kirkpatrick, Neville's brother-in-law.[67] Before the rebel force arrived, Kirkpatrick had Neville leave the house and hide in a nearby ravine. David Lenox and General Neville's son Presley Neville also returned to the area, though they could not get into the house and were captured by the rebels.[68]
Following some fruitless negotiations, the women and children were allowed to leave the house, and then both sides began firing. After about an hour, McFarlane called a ceasefire; according to some, a white flag had been waved in the house. As McFarlane stepped into the open, a shot rang out from the house, and he fell mortally wounded. The enraged rebels then set fire to the house, including the slave quarters, and Kirkpatrick surrendered.[69] The number of casualties at Bower Hill is unclear; McFarlane and one or two other militiamen were killed; one U.S. soldier may have died from wounds received in the fight.[70] The rebels sent the U.S. soldiers away. Kirkpatrick, Lenox, and Presley Neville were kept as prisoners, but they later escaped.[71]
March on Pittsburgh
Portrait of Hugh Henry Brackenridge, a western opponent of the whiskey tax who tried to prevent violent resistance
McFarlane was given a hero's funeral on July 18. His "murder", as the rebels saw it, further radicalized the countryside.[72] Moderates such as Brackenridge were hard-pressed to restrain the populace. Radical leaders emerged, such as David Bradford, urging violent resistance. On July 26, a group headed by Bradford robbed the U.S. mail as it left Pittsburgh, hoping to discover who in that town opposed them and finding several letters that condemned the rebels. Bradford and his band called for a military assembly to meet at Braddock's Field, about 8 mi (13 km) east of Pittsburgh.[73]
On August 1, about 7,000 people gathered at Braddock's Field.[74] The crowd consisted primarily of poor people who owned no land, and most did not own whiskey stills. The furor over the whiskey excise had unleashed anger about other economic grievances. By this time, the victims of violence were often wealthy property owners who had no connection to the whiskey tax.[75] Some of the most radical protesters wanted to march on Pittsburgh, which they called "Sodom", loot the homes of the wealthy, and then burn the town to the ground.[76] Others wanted to attack Fort Fayette. There was praise for the French Revolution and calls for bringing the guillotine to America. David Bradford, it was said, was comparing himself to Robespierre, a leader of the French Reign of Terror.[77]
At Braddock's Field, there was talk of declaring independence from the United States and of joining with Spain or Great Britain. Radicals flew a specially designed flag that proclaimed their independence. The flag had six stripes, one for each county represented at the gathering: the Pennsylvania counties of Allegheny, Bedford, Fayette, Washington, and Westmoreland, and Virginia's Ohio County.[78]
Pittsburgh citizens helped to defuse the threat by banishing three men whose intercepted letters had given offense to the rebels, and by sending a delegation to Braddock's Field that expressed support for the gathering.[79] Brackenridge prevailed upon the crowd to limit the protest to a defiant march through the town. In Pittsburgh, Major Kirkpatrick's barns were burned, but nothing else.[80]
Meeting at Whiskey Point
Whiskey Point
Pennsylvania Historical Marker signification
Location
Main Street between First Street & Park Avenue
Monongahela
Coordinates
40°12′01″N 79°55′21″W / 40.2002°N 79.9226°W / 40.2002; -79.9226
PA marker dedicated
May 26, 1949[81]
A convention was held on August 14 of 226 whiskey rebels from the six counties, held at Parkison's Ferry (now known as Whiskey Point) in present-day Monongahela. The convention considered resolutions which were drafted by Brackenridge, Gallatin, David Bradford, and an eccentric preacher named Herman Husband, a delegate from Bedford County. Husband was a well-known local figure and a radical champion of democracy who had taken part in the Regulator movement in North Carolina 25 years earlier.[82] The Parkison's Ferry convention also appointed a committee to meet with the peace commissioners who had been sent west by President Washington.[83] There, Gallatin presented an eloquent speech in favor of peace and against proposals from Bradford to further revolt.[81]
Federal response
President Washington was confronted with what appeared to be an armed insurrection in western Pennsylvania, and he proceeded cautiously while determined to maintain governmental authority. He did not want to alienate public opinion, so he asked his cabinet for written opinions about how to deal with the crisis. The cabinet recommended the use of force, except for Secretary of State Edmund Randolph who urged reconciliation.[84] Washington did both: he sent commissioners to meet with the rebels while raising a militia army. Washington privately doubted that the commissioners could accomplish anything, and believed that a military expedition would be needed to suppress further violence.[85] For this reason, historians have sometimes charged that the peace commission was sent only for the sake of appearances, and that the use of force was never in doubt.[86] Historians Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick argued that the military expedition was "itself a part of the reconciliation process", since a show of overwhelming force would make further violence less likely.[87]
Meanwhile, Hamilton began publishing essays under the name of "Tully" in Philadelphia newspapers, denouncing mob violence in western Pennsylvania and advocating military action. Democratic-Republican Societies had been formed throughout the country, and Washington and Hamilton believed that they were the source of civic unrest. "Historians are not yet agreed on the exact role of the societies" in the Whiskey Rebellion, wrote historian Mark Spencer in 2003, "but there was a degree of overlap between society membership and the Whiskey Rebels".[88]
Before troops could be raised, the Militia Act of 1792 required a justice of the United States Supreme Court to certify that law enforcement was beyond the control of local authorities. On August 4, 1794, Justice James Wilson delivered his opinion that western Pennsylvania was in a state of rebellion.[89] On August 7, Washington issued a presidential proclamation announcing, with "the deepest regret", that the militia would be called out to suppress the rebellion. He commanded insurgents in western Pennsylvania to disperse by September 1.[90]
Negotiations
In early August 1794, Washington dispatched three commissioners to the west, all of them Pennsylvanians: Attorney General William Bradford, Justice Jasper Yeates of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Senator James Ross. Beginning on August 21, the commissioners met with a committee of westerners that included Brackenridge and Gallatin. The government commissioners told the committee that it must unanimously agree to renounce violence and submit to U.S. laws, and that a popular referendum must be held to determine if the local people supported the decision. Those who agreed to these terms would be given amnesty from further prosecution.[91]
The committee was divided between radicals and moderates, and narrowly passed a resolution agreeing to submit to the government's terms. The popular referendum was held on September 11 and also produced mixed results. Some townships overwhelmingly supported submitting to U.S. law, but opposition to the government remained strong in areas where poor and landless people predominated.[92] The final report of the commissioners recommended the use of the military to enforce the laws.[93] The trend was towards submission, however, and westerners dispatched representatives William Findley and David Redick to meet with Washington and to halt the progress of the oncoming army. Washington and Hamilton declined, arguing that violence was likely to re-emerge if the army turned back.[92]
Militia expedition
Under the authority of the recently passed federal militia law, the state militias were called up by the governors of New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The federalized militia force of 12,950 men was a large army by American standards of the time, comparable to Washington's armies during the Revolution.[94] Relatively few men volunteered for militia service, so a draft was used to fill out the ranks. Draft evasion was widespread, and conscription efforts resulted in protests and riots, even in eastern areas. Three counties in eastern Virginia were the scenes of armed draft resistance. In Maryland, Governor Thomas Sim Lee sent 800 men to quash an antidraft riot in Hagerstown; about 150 people were arrested.[95]
Photo of Albert Gallatin, who spoke publicly to rebel groups about the need for moderation
Liberty poles were raised in various places as the militia was recruited, worrying federal officials. A liberty pole was raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on September 11, 1794.[96] The federalized militia arrived in that town later that month and rounded up suspected pole-raisers. Two civilians were killed in these operations. On September 29, an unarmed boy was shot by an officer whose pistol accidentally fired. Two days later, an "Itinerant Person" was "Bayoneted" to death by a soldier while resisting arrest (the man had tried to wrest the rifle from the soldier he confronted; it is possible he had been a member of a 500-strong Irish work crew nearby who were "digging, a canal into the Sculkill" [sic]; at least one of that work gang's members protested the killing so vigorously that he was "put under guard").[97] President Washington ordered the arrest of the two soldiers and had them turned over to civilian authorities. A state judge determined that the deaths had been accidental, and the soldiers were released.[98]
In October 1794, Washington traveled west to review the progress of the military expedition. According to historian Joseph Ellis, this was "the first and only time a sitting American president led troops in the field".[99] Jonathan Forman led the Third Infantry Regiment of New Jersey troops against the Whiskey Rebellion, he wrote about his encounter with Washington:[100]
October 3d Marched early in the morning for Harrisburgh, where we arrived about 12 O'clock. About 1 O'Clock recd. information of the Presidents approach on which, I had the regiment paraded, timely for his reception, & considerably to my satisfaction. Being afterwards invited to his quarters he made enquiry into the circumstances of the man [an incident between an "Itinerant Person" and "an Old Soldier" mentioned earlier in the journal (p. 3)] & seemed satisfied with the information.[97]
Washington met with the western representatives in Bedford, Pennsylvania on October 9 before going to Fort Cumberland in Maryland to review the southern wing of the army.[101] He was convinced that the federalized militia would meet little resistance, and he placed the army under the command of the Virginia Governor Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee, a hero of the Revolutionary War. Washington returned to Philadelphia; Hamilton remained with the army as civilian adviser.[102]
Daniel Morgan, a general key to the winning of the American Revolution, was called up to lead a force to suppress the protest. It was at this time (1794) that Morgan was promoted to Major General. Serving under General "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, Morgan led one wing of the militia army into Western Pennsylvania.[103] The massive show of force brought an end to the protests without a shot being fired. After the uprising had been suppressed, Morgan commanded the remnant of the army that remained until 1795 in Pennsylvania, some 1,200 militiamen, one of whom was Meriwether Lewis.[104]
Aftermath
The insurrection collapsed as the federal army marched west into western Pennsylvania in October 1794. Some of the most prominent leaders of the insurrection, such as David Bradford, fled westward to safety. It took six months for those who were charged to be tried. Most were acquitted due to mistaken identity, unreliable testimony and lack of witnesses. The only two convicted of treason and sentenced to hang were John Mitchell and Philip Wigle. They were later pardoned by Washington.[105][106]
Immediately before the arrests "... as many as 2,000 of [the rebels] – had fled into the mountains, beyond the reach of the militia. It was a great disappointment to Hamilton, who had hoped to bring rebel leaders such as David Bradford to trial in Philadelphia – and possibly see them hanged for treason. Instead, when the militia at last turned back, out of all the suspects they had seized a mere twenty were selected to serve as examples, They were at worst bit players in the uprising, but they were better than nothing."[105]
The captured participants and the Federal militia arrived in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. Some artillery was fired and church bells were heard as "... a huge throng lined Broad Street to cheer the troops and mock the rebels ... [Presley] Neville said he 'could not help feeling sorry for them. The captured rebels were paraded down Broad Street being 'humiliated, bedragged, [and] half-starved ...' "[105]
Other accounts describe the indictment of 24 men for high treason.[107] Most of the accused had eluded capture, so only ten men stood trial for treason in federal court.[108] Of these, only Philip Wigle[111] and John Mitchell were convicted. Wigle had beaten up a tax collector and burned his house; Mitchell was a simpleton who had been convinced by David Bradford to rob the U.S. mail. Both men were sentenced to death by hanging, but they were pardoned by President Washington.[112] Pennsylvania state courts were more successful in prosecuting lawbreakers, securing numerous convictions for assault and rioting.[113] While violent opposition to the whiskey tax ended, political opposition to the tax continued. Opponents of internal taxes rallied around the candidacy of Thomas Jefferson and helped him defeat President John Adams in the election of 1800. By 1802, Congress repealed the distilled spirits excise tax and all other internal Federal taxes. Until the War of 1812, the Federal government would rely solely on import tariffs for revenue, which quickly grew with the Nation's expanding foreign trade.[22]
Legacy
The James Miller House on the Oliver Miller Homestead located in South Park Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. In 1794, the first fired gunshots of the Whiskey Rebellion occurred on the property when revenue officers served a writ on William Miller. Shots were fired but the officers were not injured. Later, William was pardoned.
The Washington administration's suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion met with widespread popular approval.[114] The episode demonstrated that the new national government had the willingness and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws. It was, therefore, viewed by the Washington administration as a success, a view that has generally been endorsed by historians.[115] The Washington administration and its supporters usually did not mention, however, that the whiskey excise remained difficult to collect, and that many westerners continued to refuse to pay the tax.[33] The events contributed to the formation of political parties in the United States, a process already underway.[116] The whiskey tax was repealed after Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party came to power in 1801, which opposed the Federalist Party of Hamilton and Washington.[117]
The Rebellion raised the question of what kinds of protests were permissible under the new Constitution. Legal historian Christian G. Fritz argued that there was not yet a consensus about sovereignty in the United States, even after ratification of the Constitution. Federalists believed that the government was sovereign because it had been established by the people; radical protest actions were permissible during the American Revolution but were no longer legitimate, in their thinking. But the Whiskey Rebels and their defenders believed that the Revolution had established the people as a "collective sovereign", and the people had the collective right to change or challenge the government through extra-constitutional means.[118]
Historian Steven Boyd argued that the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion prompted anti-Federalist westerners to finally accept the Constitution and to seek change by voting for Republicans rather than resisting the government. Federalists, for their part, came to accept the public's role in governance and no longer challenged the freedom of assembly and the right to petition.[119]
In popular culture
Susanna Rowson
Soon after the Whiskey Rebellion, actress-playwright Susanna Rowson wrote a stage musical about the insurrection entitled The Volunteers, with music by composer Alexander Reinagle. The play is now lost, but the songs survive and suggest that Rowson's interpretation was pro-Federalist. The musical celebrates as American heroes the militiamen who put down the rebellion, the "volunteers" of the title.[120] President Washington and Martha Washington attended a performance of the play in Philadelphia in January 1795.[121] W. C. Fields recorded a comedy track in Les Paul's studio in 1946, shortly before his death, entitled "The Temperance Lecture" for the album W. C. Fields ... His Only Recording Plus 8 Songs by Mae West. The bit discussed Washington and his role in putting down the Whiskey Rebellion, and Fields wondered aloud whether "George put down a little of the vile stuff too."[122]
L. Neil Smith wrote the alternate history novel The Probability Broach in 1980 as part of his North American Confederacy Series. In it, Albert Gallatin joins the rebellion in 1794 to benefit the farmers, rather than the fledgling US Government as he did in reality. This results in the rebellion becoming a Second American Revolution. This eventually leads to George Washington being overthrown and executed for treason, the abrogation of the Constitution, and Gallatin being proclaimed the second president and serving as president until 1812.[123][124]
David Liss' 2008 novel The Whiskey Rebels covers many of the circumstances during 1788-92 that led to the 1794 Rebellion. The fictional protagonists are cast against an array of historical persons, including Alexander Hamilton, William Duer, Anne Bingham, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Aaron Burr, and Philip Freneau.
In 2011, the Whiskey Rebellion Festival was started in Washington, Pennsylvania. This annual event is held in July and includes live music, food, and historic reenactments, featuring the "tar and feathering" of the tax collector.[125][126]
Other works which include events of the Whiskey Rebellion:
The Latimers: A Tale of the Western Insurrection of 1794 by clergyman Henry Christopher McCook (1898)
The Delectable Country by Leland Baldwin (1939)
"Copper Kettle", a song attributed to A.F.Beddoes[127], and performed on record by Chet Atkins, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Gillian Welch
Margery Evendern's young adult novel Wilderness Boy (1955)
Research materials
Much primary source historical material has been preserved and exists in archives. A list of institutions that possess holdings and examples are:
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History papers of Alexander Hamilton regarding the rebellion.
National Archives Founders Online a large collection containing correspondence to and from George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson regarding the rebellion.
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Archives Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol. IV., Reprinted under direction of Charles Warren Stone, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol. IV. Reprinted under direction of Charles Warren Stone, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol. IV.Reprinted under direction of Charles Warren Stone, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Edited by John B. Linn and Wm. H. Egle, M. D. Harrisburg: E. K. Meyers, State Printer, 1890. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Edited by John B. Linn and Wm. H. Egle, M. D. Harrisburg: E. K. Meyers, State Printer, 1890. Secretary of the Commonwealth Hundreds of documents that include correspondence to and from William Rawle, William Bingham, and George Turner.
University of Pittsburgh, Alexander Addison A federal judge in western Pennsylvania during the Whiskey Rebellion with moderate views.
University of Pittsburgh. Jonathan Forman Papers A federal militia soldier's diary.
See also
Liquor portal
History portal
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American Whiskey Trail
"Copper Kettle", song referencing the Rebellion
Fries's Rebellion
Jean Bonnet Tavern
List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States
Moonshine
Shays' Rebellion
Fort Gaddis – gathering spot in Fayette County, Pennsylvania during Rebellion and site of the raising of a liberty pole
Notes
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 210–14, 219.
Jump up ^ Robert W. Coakley, The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1789–1878 (DIANE Publishing, 1996), 67.
Jump up ^ Rorabaugh, W.J. The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition, 1979. Oxford University Press, 53.
Jump up ^ Howlett, Leon. The Kentucky Bourbon Experience: A Visual Tour of Kentucky's Bourbon Distilleries, 2012, 7.
Jump up ^ Chernow, 297.
Jump up ^ Chernow, 327–30.
Jump up ^ Chernow, 341.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 27.
Jump up ^ Chernow, 342–43; Hogeland, 63.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 100.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 105; Hogeland, 64.
Jump up ^ American State Papers [Finance: Volume 1], 110
Jump up ^ "ExplorePAHistory.com – Stories from PA History". Retrieved 2017-02-11.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 97.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 66.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 68.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 67; Holt, 30.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 147–49; Hogeland, 68–70.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 68–69; Holt, 30.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 148.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 148; Hogeland, 69.
^ Jump up to: a b c Hoover, Michael. "The Whiskey Rebellion". Regulations & Rulings Division, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, US Department of the Treasury. Retrieved February 17, 2017. (no date) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 108.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 110.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 206.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 23–25; Slaughter, 113.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 24.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 114–15.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 113. Hogeland dates the attack on Johnson to September 7, the night before the Pittsburgh convention; Hogeland, 24.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 103–04.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 114.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 103.
^ Jump up to: a b Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau, "A New Look at the Whiskey Rebellion", in Boyd, The Whiskey Rebellion: Past and Present Perspectives, 97–118.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 117.
Jump up ^ Gross, David M. (2014). 99 Tactics of Successful Tax Resistance Campaigns. Picket Line Press. pp. 77–78. ISBN 978-1-4905-7274-1.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 119; Hogeland, 124.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 122–23.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 117–19; 122–23.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 125–27.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 119–23.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 151–53.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 97, 102.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 119–24.
Jump up ^ Gross, David M. (2014). 99 Tactics of Successful Tax Resistance Campaigns. Picket Line Press. p. 72. ISBN 978-1-4905-7274-1.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 130–31.
^ Jump up to: a b Slaughter, 151.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 150.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 153.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 165.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 177; Cooke, 328.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 142.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 170.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 182.
Jump up ^ Cooke, 321.
Jump up ^ Cooke, 321–22.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 183.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 124.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, William (July 3, 2006). "Why the Whiskey Rebellion Is Worth Recalling Now". History News Network. Archived from the original on August 10, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
Jump up ^ S. E. Morison, "The Oxford History of the United States 1783–1917 (London: Oxford University Press, 1927), 182.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 177.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 146.
Jump up ^ The number of militiamen in the first attack on Bower Hill varies in contemporary accounts; Hogeland, 268.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 179; Hogeland, 147–48.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 3.
Jump up ^ Tucker, Spencer C. (2014-06-11). The Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Early American Republic, 1783–1812: A Political, Social, and Military History [3 volumes]: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO. p. 52. ISBN 9781598841572. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 150–51.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 179; Hogeland, 152.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 153.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 153–54; Slaughter, 3, 179–80.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 180.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 155–56.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 181–83.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 183–85.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 186; Hogeland, 172.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 186–87.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 187.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 188–89; Hogeland, 169.
Jump up ^ Holt, 10. Holt writes that earlier historians had misindentified the six counties represented by the flag.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 185.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 187–88; Hogeland, 170–77.
^ Jump up to: a b "Whiskey Point (Albert Gallatin) Historical Marker". Explore PA history. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
Jump up ^ Holt, 54–57.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 188–89.
Jump up ^ Elkins & McKitrick, 479.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 197–99.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 199; Holt, 11.
Jump up ^ Elkins & McKitrick, 481.
Jump up ^ Mark G. Spencer, "Democratic-Republican Societies", in Peter Knight, ed., Conspiracy Theories in American History (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Press, 2003), 1:221.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 192–93, 196; Elkins & McKitrick, 479.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 196.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 199–200; Hogeland, 199.
^ Jump up to: a b Slaughter, 203.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 205–06.
Jump up ^ Chernow, 475–76; Hogeland, 189.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 210–14.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 208.
^ Jump up to: a b Forman, Jonathan. "Journal of Jonathan Forman (7 pgs.), September 21, 1794 – October 25, 1794: Box 1, Folder 1 Jonathan Forman Papers, September 21, 1794 – October 25, 1794, DAR.1982.01, Darlington Collection, Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh" (PDF). Retrieved 2 August 2017.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 205–06; Hogeland, 213.
Jump up ^ Ellis, His Excellency, George Washington, 225.
Jump up ^ Manella, Angela. "Jonathan Forman Papers Finding Aid". Archive Service Center, University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved April 4, 2013.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 215–16.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 216.
Jump up ^ Higginbotham, pp. 189–91.
Jump up ^ Higginbotham, pp. 193–98.
^ Jump up to: a b c Craughwell & Phelps 2008.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 219.
Jump up ^ Richard A. Ifft, "Treason in the Early Republic: The Federal Courts, Popular Protest, and Federalism During the Whiskey Insurrection", in Boyd, The Whiskey Rebellion: Past and Present Perspectives, 172.
Jump up ^ Ifft, 172.
Jump up ^ Slaughter pp. 290–91.
Jump up ^ Craughwell, Thomas J.; Phelps, M. William (2008). Failures of the Presidents: From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraq. Fair Winds Press. p. 22. ISBN 9781616734312.
Jump up ^ Sources show a variety of spellings for his surname, including Vigol and Wigal.[109][110]
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 238; Ifft, 176.
Jump up ^ Ifft, 175–76.
Jump up ^ Elkins & McKitrick, 481–84.
Jump up ^ Boyd, "Popular Rights", 78.
Jump up ^ Slaughter, 221; Boyd, "Popular Rights", 80.
Jump up ^ Hogeland, 242.
Jump up ^ Fritz, Christian G. Fritz (April 27, 2009). American Sovereigns: the People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-12560-4.
Jump up ^ Boyd, "Popular Rights", 80–83.
Jump up ^ Vickers, Anita (2009). The New Nation. American Popular Culture Through History. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-313-31264-9.
Jump up ^ Branson, Susan (2001). These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 181.
Jump up ^ Smith, Ronald L. (1998). Comedy Stars at 78 RPM: Biographies and Discographies of 89 American and British Recording Artists, 1896–1946. McFarland. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-7864-0462-9.
Jump up ^ John J. Pierce, When world views collide: a study in imagination and evolution (Greenwood Press, 1989), 163.
Jump up ^ Peter Josef Mühlbauer, "Frontiers and dystopias: Libertarian ideology in science fiction", in Dieter Plehwe et al., eds., Neoliberal Hegemony: A Global Critique (Taylor & Francis, 2006), 162.
Jump up ^ "Washington Co. Festival Marks Whiskey Rebellion". WPXI. August 1, 2011. Retrieved March 23, 2015.
Jump up ^ "2017 Whiskey Rebellion Festival". Whiskey Rebellion Festival. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
Jump up ^ Time Magazine archive, Friday, November 30, 1962; Quote:
Sir: I am extremely thrilled that you printed my song in your folk singing article. I love music and Joan Baez. Copper Kettle was written in 1953 as part of my opera Go Lightly Stranger. A. F. Beddoe, Staten Island, N.Y.
Bibliography
Baldwin, Leland D. Whiskey Rebels: The Story of a Frontier Uprising. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968. ISBN 978-0822951513
Boyd, Steven R., ed. The Whiskey Rebellion: Past and Present Perspectives. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1985. ISBN 0-313-24534-7.
Boyd, Steven R. "The Whiskey Rebellion, Popular Rights, and the Meaning of the First Amendment." In W. Thomas Mainwaring, ed. The Whiskey Rebellion and the Trans-Appalachian Frontier, 73–84. Washington, Pennsylvania: Washington and Jefferson College, 1994.
Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Press, 2004. ISBN 1-59420-009-2.
Cooke, Jacob E. "The Whiskey Insurrection: A Re-Evaluation." Pennsylvania History 30 (July 1963), 316–64.
Elkins, Stanley M. and Eric L. McKitrick. The Age of Federalism. Oxford University Press, 1995. ISBN 978-0-19-509381-0
Hogeland, William. The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty. New York: Scribner, 2006. ISBN 0-7432-5490-2.
Holt, Wythe. "The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794: A Democratic Working-Class Insurrection" (PDF). Paper presented at The Georgia Workshop in Early American History and Culture, 2004.
Kohn, Richard H. "The Washington Administration's Decision to Crush the Whiskey Rebellion." Journal of American History 59 (December 1972), 567–84.
Slaughter, Thomas P. The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-19-505191-2.
Further reading
Baldwin, Leland. Whiskey Rebels: The Story of a Frontier Uprising. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1939.
Berkin, Carol. A Sovereign People: The Crises of the 1790s and the Birth of American Nationalism (2017) pp. 7–80. excerpt
Bouton, Terry. Taming Democracy: "The People," the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-530665-1.
Brackenridge, Henry Marie. History of the Western Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania ... Pittsburgh, 1859.
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry. Incidents of the Insurrection in Western Pennsylvania in the Year 1794. Philadelphia, 1795. A 1972 edition has notes by Daniel Marder.
Findley, William. History of the Insurrection in the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, 1796.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Whiskey Rebellion.
Text of the 1791 excise act from the Library of Congress
George Washington's Proclamation of September 15, 1792, warning against obstruction of the excise law, from the Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Washington's Proclamation of August 7, 1794, announcing the preliminary raising of militia and commanding the insurgents in western Pennsylvania to disperse
Washington's Proclamation of September 25, 1794, announcing the commencement of military operations
Washington's Sixth Annual Message, November 19, 1794. Washington dedicated most of this annual message to the Whiskey Rebellion.
Thompson, Charles D. Jr. "Whiskey and Geography" Southern Spaces, May 10, 2011. Explores the origins of whiskey-making and the resistance to a whiskey tax in Franklin County, Virginia.
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