The popular discontent which arose there from the imposition of taxes upon their principal staple--distilled spirits--naturally coalesced with the agitation carried on against Washington's neutrality policy.

At a meeting of delegates from the election districts of Allegheny county held at Pittsburgh, resolutions were adopted attributing the policy of the Government "to the pernicious influence of stockholders." This was an echo of Jefferson's views.

But the resolutions went on to declare: "Our minds feel this with so much indignancy, that we are almost ready to wish for a state of revolution and the guillotine of France, for a short space, in order to inflict punishment on the miscreants that enervate and disgrace our Government." This was an echo of the talk in the political clubs that had been formed throughout the country.

The original model was apparently the Jacobin club of Paris.

The Philadelphia club with which the movement started, soon after Genet's arrival, adopted the Jacobin style of utterance.