Autograph Letter Signed

Concern About the Interception of Mail by Traitors; Hopes to Overcome Whiskey Rebellion

A letter has been intercepted by a traitor, and they now search for him. Although the insurrection has desisted from burning houses, they seek to put down the Whiskey Rebellion and enforce submission to the laws of the United States.

1794

10

30

Pittsburgh

Philadelphia

Henry Knox

Isaac Craig

Colonel Butler

traitor

commanding officer

leaders of the insurrection

President

Philadelphia

Pittsburgh

Kentucky

Wheeling

Carlisle

mountains

Kentucky Boats

burning houses

suppression

Traitor

Submission to the Laws of the United States

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Pittsburgh 30th October 1794
Sir
Your favor of the 11th Instant in this moment came to hand with the Enclosures, the whole of the Contents, I have Communicated to Colo Butler, who in Consert with me will use every means to Intercept the Traitor, and am now Actually using means to Discover him, if he should already have arrived in Town, & I shall write to the Commanding Officer at Wheeling, to search several Kentuckey Boats, that sett off from the place yesterday & this Morning.
The Leaders of the Insurrection, in Order to Escape punishment, are using means to Deceive the President into an Opinion that the People of this Country are in a State of Submission, to the Laws of the United States, whilst nothing is more Certain, than although they have Desisted from Burning Houses, in the Generality Declare that an Officer of the Peace Shall not Exist amongst them, and Notwithstanding the Army Intended for that Suppression has advanced to Carlisle they are Still of Opinion it will never Cross the Mountains.
I am Sir Your Obedt Humbled Servt
Isaac Craig
Majr General Henry Knox
Secretary of War