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WHISKEY REBELLION - THE SPEECH OF ALBERT GALLATIN 1795
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THE SPEECH OF ALBERT GALLATIN, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE COUNTY OF FAYETTE, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA, ON THE IMPORTANT QUESTION TOUCHING THE VALIDITY OF THE ELECTIONS HELD IN THE FOUR WESTERN COUNTIES OF THE STATE, ON THE 14TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1794. WITH NOTES AND AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING SUNDRY DOCUMENTS REALTIVE TO THE WESTERN INSURRECTION. Philadelphia: Printed by William W. Woodward, Franklin's Head, Chestnut Street. 1795. 66p. 4 7/8" x 7 3/4" stitched. 3/4's of an inch is missing from the bottom of the last page otherwise this rare speech is in extremely good condition! As with all of my auctions I am starting this rare item at $9.99 with NO RESERVE!
Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (January 29, 1761 – August 12, 1849) was a Swiss-American ethnologist , linguist , politician , diplomat , congressman , and the longest-serving United States Secretary of the Treasury . In 1831, he founded the University of the City of New York. In 1896, this university was renamed New York University ; it is now one of the largest private, non-profit universities in the United States. Born in Switzerland , Gallatin immigrated to America in the 1780s, ultimately settling in Pennsylvania . He was politically active against the Federalist Party program, and was elected to the United States Senatein 1793, but was removed from office by a 14–12 party-line vote after a protest raised by his opponents suggested he had fewer than the required nine years of citizenship. In 1795 he was elected to the House of Representatives and served in the fourth through sixth Congresses, becoming House Majority Leader . He was an important leader of the new Democratic-Republican Party , and its chief spokesman on financial matters and opposed the entire program of Alexander Hamilton . He also helped found the House Committee on Finance (later the Ways and Means Committee ) and often engineered withholding of finances by the House as a method of overriding executive actions to which he objected. While Treasury Secretary, his services to his country were honored in 1805 when Meriwether Lewis named one of the three headwaters of the Missouri River after Gallatin. Whiskey RebellionReturning home, he found western Pennsylvanians (mostly Scotch Irish) angry at the whiskey tax imposed in 1791 by Congress at the demand of Alexander Hamilton to raise money to pay the national debt. Farmers could only export whiskey because transportation costs were too high for grain. Although Gallatin had opposed the tax before it was passed and attended numerous protest meetings, he counseled moderation. Nevertheless, the role he played in the Whiskey Rebellion in the early 1790s proved a lasting political liability, as President George Washington denounced the tax protesters, called out the militia, and marched at the head of the army to put down the rebellion. A group of radicals, headed by a blatant demagogue named David Bradford, staged incendiary meetings, to which they summoned the local militia, terrorized conservatives in Pittsburgh, threatened federal revenue officers with death, and called for rebellion. Gallatin calmed the westerners; with courage and persuasive oratory, he faced the excited and armed mobs, heartened the moderates, won over the wavering, and at last secured a vote of 34 to 23 in the revolutionary committee of sixty for peaceable submission to the law of the country. The rebellion collapsed as the army moved near, Bradford fled, and there was no fighting. Gallatin's neighbors approved his advocacy of their cause and elected him to the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms, 1795-1801.r than the required nine years of citizenship. In 1795 he was elected to the House of Representatives and served in the fourth through sixth Congresses, becoming House Majority Leader . He was an important leader of the new Democratic-Republican Party , and its chief spokesman on financial matters and opposed the entire program of Alexander Hamilton . He also helped found the House Committee...
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