Whisky Insurrection

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Excerpt from Whisky Insurrection: A General ViewIt was a distinct and serious menace to the integrity and even the existence of the young republic. Though it ended in fiasco, the potentialities of disunion and destruction existed in it. Given a more sincere, unselfish, capable and fearless leader ship, it must have involved the country in a bloody civil war, which in its exhausted and impoverished condition so soon after the long Revolutionary struggle, would have had an ending which might easily have been most disastrous. The older and more settled part of the country was east of the Appalachian mountain system. There was the seat of government and the scene of most activities in commerce and manufacture. These counties about the headwaters of the Ohio were isolated from it. The lurking savage had practically undisputed possession of the great Ohio wilderness and to the westward of it for un known distances. Great Britain maintained a firm foothold along the Canadian border on the north and northwest, and Spain was in possession of the mouth of the Mississippi. These would have a natural interest in seeing the disintegration of the young nation which was giving promise of pushing its set tlements westward rapidly.Washington recognized the peril, and met it by organizing and putting in the field an army greater and much better equipped than the one he commanded at Yorktown when Corn wallis handed him his sword, and by the expenditure of nearly a million dollars - a vast sum for that time and for the countrv in the state of its finances then. This action was not due to any sudden panic on the part of the great general and president, who for three years had been earnestly and patiently trying to compose the differences without resort to force, but came from his appreciation, with all the facts before him, that it was a grave crisis, requiring heroic treatment. No one who looks carefully at all the facts can well escape the conviction that the ship of state was among the breakers which had well nigh wrecked it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.