, they owe to the memory of two illustrious individuals of whom, on the 4th instant, the nation was deprived, and deeply condoling with their fellow- citizens of the United States upon this national loss, "Resolved, That they venerate the memory of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, and cherish the

United States Congress from 1789 to the present / by Hon. A. G. Seyfert. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Legislators--United States. Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1865-1950. Pennsylvania--Politics and government--1775-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1930

unanimously approved. It was signed by John Light and the other one hundred and forty-nine officers : "TO JOHN ADAMS, ESQ., PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES : "At a period so momentous as the present, when it but too plainly appears that we must either submit to be dictated to by a �foreign power or resort to

in war time— The Democracy in 1864—Buchanan's dislike of Douglas unabated—McClellan as a candidate—Buchanan foresees party difficulties in case of victory—New issues for the Old Democracy—Negro Suffrage and States Rights—Buchanan's estimate of Grant—Final advice upon the conduct of the Democratic