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spewed them out. Many, unable to live under an 

 intolerable odium, abandoned locations where they 

 were known as Tories, and sought new homes among 

 strangers. The breaking up of families from this 

 cause occasioned widespread suffering. The numer 

 ous gangs of marauding Tories, now represented by 

 the rebel guerrillas, were forced to quit the neigh 

 borhoods they had desolated, the people whom they 

 had outraged executing the task -with sanguinary 

 thoroughness. 



The rebellions which succeeded the Revolution 

 were mere military episodes, though at times pre 

 senting an alarming front to the then feeble authori 

 ties. Shay s rebellion ended with the dispersion of 

 his followers, the flight, capture, and pardon of its 

 leaders, with an amnesty to the rank and file on re 

 turning to their allegiance. The more formidable 

 Whisky Insurrection in Pennsylvania ended quite 

 as ignominiously to its instigators. As in the case 

 of Shay s, that outbreak was fomented by a single 

 demagogue, who, fluent of speech and reckless of 

 results, traversed the country and roused the people 

 to arms. He in turn became a fugitive, with multi 

 tudes of his followers. Others were ruined pecuni 

 arily, while two were condemned and sentenced to 

 death for treason, though subsequently pardoned, 

 while a proclamation of amnesty secured a general 

 pacification. The leaders banished, the masses were 

 forgiven. In Dorr s rebellion the same general facts 

 and consequences are prominently visible. But 

 neither of these insurrections developed the murder 

 ous hatred which marked the contest between Whig 



