Lancaster County Politics:1799 - 1810 Alan Kreider The preeminent fact of the political history of America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is the decline of the Federalist Party and the ascendancy of Jeffersonian Republicanism. Pennsylvania in many ways epitomized this trend

, the angry young crusader most often attacked the Republican party. The corruption of Grant's administration gave him a huge target, but he did not neglect the state and local governments. Al- though the Pennsylvania legislature was forbidden by the state con- stitution to pass special laws for one

a source of strength and unity which brought on a revival of Federalism un- matched throughout the State of Pennsylvania. The immediate purpose of this paper is to study the politics of the war period in Lancaster County from 1811 to 1815, emphasizing the developments which occurred within the

. In 1860 he was a Republican leader in Lancaster County and eventually he succeeded Stevens as a member of Congress. He also served in the 10th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. The stop of the Lancaster group at St. Louis provided an opportun- ity to present a gold headed cane to General Shaeffer

Democracy over the election of Andrew Jackson to the Presidency was soon ended by the rapid growth and political success of the Anti-masonic Party in Lancaster County, a movement as much supported by those rural Federalists who would vote for anything as long as it was not the detested Demo- cratic Party