Subject(s): Strohm, John L. United States. Congress--History--19th century. Legislators--United States. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1919 Description: 60-62 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 24, no. 3 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v

The Attitude of James Buchanan (a Cit- izen of Lancaster County) towards the Institution of Slavery in the United States It is the happy and appropriate function of an historical society, with even the local limitations of ours, to fearlessly explore and faithfully chron- icle the events of general

, one and one-third of a column gives the charge of Judge Kane in the United States District Court, one- third column on "The Law of Treason" and one-third column on the effect of this occurrence on the political situa- tion, in which article Attorney Gen- �eral Franklin received a letter from Rev. J. S

political parties from 1793 to 1863. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was passed in strict con­ formity with the Constitution of the United States; and it impressed upon the executive authorities of the several States the duty of arrest, and upon their magistrates the obliga­ tion to hear and commit the