Today In History August 1,1794 The Whiskey Insurrection

various | August 1,2010 | various

[SWAMPSNIPER]

By the time I was 10 or 11 I could have told you where half a dozen stills were at any time. This was almost open country for kids then, we rambled wherever we wanted to, but it was unwritten law that you kept your mouth shut about some things.

When you stumbled across a still you kept your eyes on the ground and walked right on by. It was a price of freedom to ramble.

[smoothsailing]

Sculptor Alan Cottrill covers his life size statue depicting three whiskey rebellion conspirators at the corner of South Main and Wheeling Streets in Washington Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The statue, one of six commissioned, will be placed along the National Road Heritage Corridor(US Route 40). A ceremony was held at noon Saturday, July 31, to unveil the statue.

[mdittmar]

Tar and feathers;)

[keving]

Help me with some history please. Thought that washington led his army as commander in chief even though hed was not president?

[RegulatorCountry]

The role of President didn’t exist yet, let alone combined with Commander in Chief of the military. It wasn’t a given that they would be, even at the Convention.

[Roccus]

IIRC, the tax was a set amount per gallon, payable at the time of production. Since whiskey was cheaper West of the mountains, the frontier distillers were forced to pay a higher percentage in tax than those to the East. Washington himself was a large distiller of spirits and not long after the insurrection ended, became the largest in the U.S. Not long after he achieved that status, the tax was rescinded.