Companies of horse were scattered through the country.

New submissions were made, and the oath of allegiance, required by General Lee, was generally taken.
Hamilton now investigated the whole matter of the insurrection, and it was charged against him, and the charge is supported by Findley, with names of persons, that he spared no effort to secure evidence to bring Gallatin within the pale of an indictment.

Of course he failed in this purpose, if indeed it were ever seriously entertained.

But the belief that Gallatin was the arch-fiend, who instigated the Whiskey Insurrection, had already become a settled article in the Federalist creed, and for a quarter of a century, long after the Federalist party had become a tradition of the past, the Genevan was held up to scorn and hatred, as an incarnation of deviltry--an enemy of mankind.
On the 8th of November, Hamilton, who remained with the army, wrote to the President that General Lee had concluded to take hold of all who are worth the trouble by the military arm, and then to deliver them over to the disposition of the judiciary.

In the mean time, he adds, "all possible means are using to obtain evidence, and accomplices will be turned against the others." The night of November 13, 1794, was appointed for the arrests; a dreadful night Findley describes it to have been.