Question

in jefferson's view george washingtons in addressing the whisky rebellion?

Answer 1

amounted to an inappropriate overreaction .............

I believe. He was a mentor of he anti-Federalist farmers and tradesmen. The Scots-Irish farmers in Pennsylvania who rebelled when Federalist leader Hamilton and his Federalist Party bankers and merchants put oppressive taxes on their whiskey trade were among the fiercest anti-Federalists.

Our Civil War was the result of of the battle between the English descent commercial interests in the Northeast and relatives of those Scots-Irish famers who had moved down into western Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, many because of those taxes and being defeated in the rebellion.

A half century later oppressive tariffs were put on the Scots-Irish dominant southeastern states, by the same kind of English descent bankers and merchants in the Northeast controlling the federal government, to compensate starving hordes of my Irish relatives flooding in there and destroying the economy by undercutting wages (the same thing is happening now mostly by huge hordes of Chinese excess labor sucking our industries to the tiny wages they desperately accept). In a sense you could claim that was just an extension of what brought so many Scots-Irish here when English rule was dominating and exploiting them in the previous century.

Southern states began seceding because of those tariffs and the war began when federal forces started preparations to blockade southern ports in reprisal for rejecting the tariffs and seceding. Slavery was a hot issue since colonial days but not the one initiating secession.