Vowing to "obstruct the o
Vowing to "obstruct the operation of the law," its supporters formed committees of correspondence in Fayette, Westmoreland, Bedford, and Allegheny counties. When federal marshals and General John Neville attempted to enforce order, a mob burned Neville's house and tarred and feathered his subordinates. Although Alexander Dallas and Governor Thomas Mifflin suggested that judicial authority was enough to restore order, a force of fifteen thousand militia from Virginia, Maryland, and New Jersey gathered under the leadership of Harry Lee and Alexander Hamilton to suppress it. FTP, name this 1791-94 rebellion in western Pennsylvania caused by an excise tax on a certain spirit.
Vowing to "obstruct the operation of the law," its supporters formed committees of correspondence in Fayette, Westmoreland, Bedford, and Allegheny counties.
Whiskey Rebellion