Whiskey Rebellion 6 Stripes Flag whiskey 36"x24" Hand stretched canvas

36"x24" Hand stretched canvas

This reproduction is based on buttons from his 1944 and 1948 campaigns

04 6–10 36–40 L 55

Happy Rockefeller

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion

Whiskey Rebellion 6 Stripes Flag whiskey 36"x24" Hand stretched canvasWith the Revolutionary War over, the newly created Federal government decided to assume the war debts of the individual states. In 1791 Congress placed an excise tax on whiskey to pay the debt. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton came up with the idea. Farmers west of the Allegheny Mountains immediately took the tax as a personal assault. Whiskey was not only the drink of choice amongst the inhabitants of the West, but it served, as one wit