[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.

[mdittmar]

There are lot’s of great Americans that didn’t deserve to be orphaned by history.

[txhurl]

What upset Jackson was whiskey was being used as currency.

Or rather, the mad bankers made Jackson act.