[mdittmar]

History is Fascinating.

[BipolarBob]

"with most farmers believing that a government which played little part in their frontier life had no right to steal money that they themselves had earned."

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[donhunt]

And there folks are the roots of NASCAR.

[steelyourfaith]

There are historical markers in my Pennsylvania hometown to Whiskey Rebellion events, but none are at Whiskey Cave in the woods where the whiskey was hidden from the feds.

[MrPiper]

Taxing my hooch...PING///... Dang Revenuers....

(This term is especially associated with the efforts of the IRS to prevent illegal production and distribution of alcohol during the period of Prohibition in the U.S.)

[RegulatorCountry]

There's a figure of the Whiskey Rebellion who is worthy of more historical note than he's been afforded. His name was Herman Husband. Some have uncharitably portrayed him as a mere Quaker rabble-rouser in a long line of Quaker rabble-rousers, but he was much more than that.

He was no stranger to frontier insurrection, playing an important role as pamphleteer, among other things, in the Regulator War of North Carolina, preceding the Revolution by a decade. Some noted historians have begun to credit the Regulators with firing the actual first shots of that Revolution during The Battle Of Alamance.

Herman Husband was also a friend and associate of Benjamin Franklin, so his influence has been given unfortunately little credit for so much that we take for granted, that we credit to other individuals.

He didn't deserve to be orphaned by history as he has.

[SunkenCiv]

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[smoothsailing]

The David Bradford House of Washington, PA -The Bradford House was built in 1788 and was home to the Whiskey Rebellion, the first domestic challenge to the new American government.

I live about a mile from the Bradford House, it's been beautifully restored and is open to the public.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Get you a copper kettle, get you a copper coil Fill it with new made corn mash and never more you'll toil You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright

Watch them jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight.

Build you a fire with hickory, hickory, ash and oak Don't use no green or rotten wood, they'll get you by the smoke You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright

Watch them jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight.

My daddy he made whiskey, my granddaddy he did too We ain't paid no whiskey tax since 1792 You'll just lay there by the juniper while the moon is bright

Watch them jugs a-filling in the pale moonlight.

[nkycincinnatikid]

Those ignoramouses west of the Alleghenies took a successfully rebelious, disoriented, reluctant seaboard colonial folk and forced them to create the greatest of all world powers in history.

[marsh2]

I believe the Whiskey Rebellion was the first national conscription. They used the Militia Law of 1792 to raise troops to “execute the laws of the union, (and) suppress insurrections...” It was also the first time that troops raised in several states were used to enforce laws in another state.