Marching on the Inspector's House

Armed men gathered at a country fort to resist a federal tax on whiskey. The accused was with them, armed. The group then went on to the tax inspector's house, and the house was burned. He turned up again, in high spirits, at a mass armed gathering in a nearby field. When the government offered terms to those who would sign a submission, he was drunk and talked others out of signing. His answer is that agreeing on a plan is not the same as making war.