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by Tom the Tinker, burned the General's house. He fled, and 

 his guard surrendered. 



In Philadelphia, Washington bit his lips and determined to 

 crush the rebellion by force. He himself at the head of fifteen 

 thousand militia marched to Pittsburgh where the rebels, now 

 five thousand strong, were encamped. They had taken over 

 the city. Terrified citizens carried supplies from their cellars 

 and storehouses to the camp on Braddock's Field. Judge 

 Brackenridge loudly lamented the four barrels of old prime 

 Monongahela he had had to surrender before the militia put 

 the rebels to rout. 



The bill for quieting the Whiskey Rebellion amounted to 

 one-third of the governmental expenditures for that year. And 

 yet illicit distilling was not done away with. Disgruntled, many 

 of the Pennsylvania whiskey-makers moved farther south 

 where the excisemen were not so diligent. Many crossed the 

 Ohio into the new frontier. They took their stills with them, 

 and set them up wherever they grew their corn. 



The Scotch-Irish who took up corn titles in Kentucky built 

 the first distillery beyond the mountains. This was in Louis- 

 ville, in 1783. Kentucky has been making whiskey out of corn 

 ever since. They say Kentucky colonels are weaned on 

 Bourbon. 



This type of whiskey, made from a mash which is pre- 

 dominately corn, leads all whiskeys in popularity in the United 

 States. Only 5 percent of the total whiskey sales in the country 

 are of Scotch. And 20 percent of those are in and around 

 New York City. Rye is more generally popular. But America's 

 consumption of Bourbon is two and a half times that of Rye. 



America drinks corn. 



The source of the alcohol in whiskey is the starch content 

 in the grain, whether it be corn, rye, wheat or barley. The 

 advantage of corn over all other grains is its high percentage 

 of starch. The more starch extracted, the greater the yield of 



