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Any editorial opinion expressed in On and Off the Wagon is the author’s own. Accounts of recent events, especially since repeal, are generally from the files of the New York Times. A list of the books consulted is appended. The author wishes to thank the dedicated reference librarians of the Olin Library, Wesleyan University; the Palmer Library, Connecticut College for Women; the Yale University Library; the Library of the United States Coast Guard Academy; and the Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library of Old Lyme, Connecticut; also, Mrs. Fred J. Tooze of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union; Thomas J. Donovan of the Licensed Beverage Industries, Inc.; Mrs. Alexander P. Guyol of the League of Women Voters; Roger C. Storms of the Prohibition National Committee; and Niles N. Peebles and Robert E. Hitchins of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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To give Hamilton credit, although he did seek honors in the field and in this respect only succeeded in making himself look ridiculous, his main aim was elsewhere. He foresaw the need for an early showdown between the states, which were acting as though they were utterly independent, and the federal government. Hamilton himself was a dedicated Federalist. Why not seize this opportunity to show the states where the real strength lay?
Hamilton raised nine thousand foot and three thousand horse soldiers, all of them poorly disciplined, and with much fanfare set forth on his mission. The soldiers looted a great deal along the way and were guilty of other breaches of discipline. The expedition cost the federal government $1,500,000, almost twice what Hamilton (too optimistically, as events proved) had estimated that the tax would bring in each year. Furthermore, Hamilton had hardly started to march before the whole matter was settled quietly by civilian government agents. Nobody was killed or injured, and there was no fighting of any sort.
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