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Back in the good old days, when the citizens had enough of their money grubbing tax collector, they'd simply break into his house, douse him with tar and then cover him in feathers.
"That'll show him!" they thought.
So the challenge is to come up with a historicaly sound PoD that has a pre-1900 POTUS experiencing the same.