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

director. Manny's diary is full of the home and its children. 1 His biography by S. S. Rathvon appears in Alexander Harris' Biograph- ical History of Lancaster County, 1872, pp. 346-56. 2 A year earlier she had lived on West Chestnut Street which accounts for Manny attending the West Ward School. �With Mrs

A LANCASTER COUNTY BUSINESSMAN AND THE WAR OF 1812 The following is part of a story about a Lancaster County, Pennsyl- vania family — and its home — from the time of settlement in 1710 until the present. This particular section covers the war years, 1812-15. It cen- ters around the then head of the

IN LANCASTER COUNTY The United States has had a long history of third-party movements, which, despite their usual small vote, have played a significant role in American political history and have made their contribution to the main- tenance of government by unanimity.' The first major third-party

the Northern Negro". New England Quarterly, XXXIV (March, 1961), 50-73. "The Federal Government and the Free Negro, 1790-1860". Jour- nal of Negro History, XLIII (1958), 261-278. North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860. Chi- cago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. Meier, August

vital truth was ever uttered than that freedom and free insti• tutions cannot long be maintained by any people who do not understand the nature of their government."-Woodrow Wilson. The purpose of the League of Women Voters of the United States is to promote political responsibility through informed and

candidates of the Constitutional Union party— John Bell, once United States Senator from Tennessee and Secretary of War and his running mate Edward Everett, the peerless orator and edu- cator. This gathering too was held in front of the court house with Henry E. Slaymaker, Lancaster businesss man, in the