<P> Insurgents in western Pennsylvania shut the courts and hounded federal officials, but Jeffersonian leader Albert Gallatin mobilized the western moderates, and thus forestalled a serious outbreak . Washington, seeing the need to assert federal supremacy, called out 13,000 state militia, and marched toward Washington, Pennsylvania, to suppress this Whiskey Rebellion . The rebellion evaporated in late 1794 as Washington approached, personally leading the army (only two sitting Presidents have directly led American military forces, Washington during the Whiskey Rebellion and Madison in an attempt to save the White House during the War of 1812). The rebels dispersed and there was no fighting . Federalists were relieved that the new government proved capable of overcoming rebellion, while Republicans, with Gallatin their new hero, argued there never was a real rebellion and the whole episode was manipulated in order to accustom Americans to a standing army . </P> <P> Angry petitions flowed in from three dozen Democratic - Republican Societies created by Citizen Genêt . Washington attacked the societies as illegitimate; many disbanded . Federalists now ridiculed Republicans as "democrats" (meaning in favor of mob rule) or "Jacobins" (a reference to The Terror in France). </P> <P> Washington refused to run for a third term, establishing a two - term precedent that was to stand until 1940 and eventually to be enshrined in the Constitution as the 22nd Amendment . He warned in his Farewell Address against involvement in European wars, and lamented the rising North - South sectionalism and party spirit in politics that threatened national unity . The party spirit, he lamented: </P> <P> serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration . It agitates the Community with ill - founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection . It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions . Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another . </P>

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