Sim Greene: A Narrative of the Whisky Insurrection, Being a Setting Forth of the Memoirs of the Late David Froman, Esq. (Classic R

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Excerpt from Sim Greene: A Narrative of the Whisky Insurrection, Being a Setting Forth of the Memoirs of the Late David Froman, Esq.The part played by the Whisky Insurrection in south western Pennsylvania, in the last decade of the Eighteenth Century, is hardly estimated by the average American at its true importance. The general his tories dismiss it with a few brief paragraphs. The government of the people and by the people was young, and men's relation to it was not so generally nor so well understood then as it is now. The world had been electrified by the French Revolution, and the in¿uence of the ideas dominant in it was most sensibly felt in America at that time. This insurrection of the people of the then far west was a real menace to the integrity of the young republic, and even threatened its very existence, with all of human weal wrapped up with it.We usually think of the boycott as being a modern de vice, or at least foreign to our shores until recent years. But we have only to turn back to the period under consideration, many years before the word had been coined, to find a most conspicuous and remarkable example of its baleful spirit. It'is true that the excise law in its Operation affected the people of the western country with peculiar hardship. But they were in the main an intelligent people, intensely religious, and well instructed in matters of right and duty. Labored efforts have been made to excuse their actions. The histories of the Insurrection written soon after its close.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.