The land of the free and the home of the brave... In 1794, American citizens went to war to prove those words. The war was, however, one against their own government. It was to be the FIRST American Civil War. Governmentally propagandized, in history's foottes as little more than rabble rousing buffoonery, it never-the-less survives as the empirical proof that even in this democracy rebellion by the mirity Have-ts against the ruling Haves does work. Witness some of its progeny: The Battle of Blair Mountain in the 1920s and The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Such outrage and audacity is the essence of what is the American character.