This is the story of why tarring and feathering government employees is not a legitimate form of democratic expression. Also, booze. (Happy Tax Day! We're getting this up one day late - because, like many of you, we were still working on our taxes, too!) Additional Links & Resources: Read a quick overview of the Whiskey Rebellion from Encyclopedia Britannica hereand from PBS's series "The American Experience" here. Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, was a key figure in the Whiskey Rebellion. Here's a portrait of him done by John Trumbull in 1792, not long before the Whiskey Rebellion: Listen to the entire "Cabinet Battle #1" (where Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson argue about the national bank and states' debt - and allude to the future whiskey tax) from the musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda below. (There's a bit of NSFW or NSFChildren language, so be aware of that.)whiskey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBmTdJ4XTfs This illustration shows the mob ...