This uprising against Federal taxation occurred in 1793–4.
1794. The whisky poles are all cut down [at Pittsburgh], and there seems to be a disposition to submit to the laws.—Mass. Spy, Nov. 19.
1805. Step forward, Albert Gallatin, and answer to the questions I propound to you…. Are you acquainted with a certain noted place called Parkinson’s Ferry? Did you ever dance round whiskey poles? Did you ever skulk in forests?—The Balance, Dec. 10, p. 394/1.
1808. Albert Gallatin, who kindled the flame of insurrection around a whiskey pole.—Mass. Spy, Dec. 21.
1824. In the whole county, we doubt whether there are an hundred individuals who are tinctured with the duelling or whiskey-insurrection mania.—Id., July 28.
1863. Washington, in calling out troops to suppress the Whisky insurrection, exceeded his authority and relied upon Congress to justify his acts.—O. J. Victor, ‘The History … of the Southern Rebellion,’ ii. 188.
1863. Those who, in the last century, maligned the great Washington for his efforts to suppress the whisky rebellion of Pennsylvania.—Mr. Horace Maynard of Tenn., House of Repr., Jan. 31: Cong. Globe, p. 662/2.
1864. In that whisky insurrection there were, at one time, more than seven thousand men in arms, including portions of the people of the great states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. These armed men seized on public property, plundered the mails, assaulted, maltreated Federal officers.—Mr. James F. McDowell of Indiana, House of Repr., Feb. 23: id., p. 785/1.
