difficulties, and by friendly jurisdictions North or South. A case pregnant with great legal and political conse­ quences finally arose under the conflicting claims of Mary­ land and Harford County on one side and Pennsylvania and York County on the other. It reached the Supreme Court of the United States and

toward the magnificent Congressional Library building. James Buchanan, then a United States Sena- tor from Pennsylvania, and who for a long time had been a citizen of Lan- caster, moved in the Senate to take up the resolution directing the Com- mittee on Finance to inquire into the expediency of

the master to follow and reclaim his flee- ing bondsmen wherever found, but re- quiring the State Courts and legal authorities to enforce this ri ght. In construing that Act in 1842, in Prigg vs. Pennsylvania, 16 Peters, 539, the Supreme Court of the United States— a Massachusetts Whig, Mr. Justice

%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: An artistic aftermath / by W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Eichholtz, Jacob, 1776-1842. Society of Artists of the United States--Exhibitions. Artists--Pennsylvania--Lancaster. Publisher

the United States in the Eastern District of Penn- sylvania, at Philadelphia. After serv- ing on several juries a fugitive slave case name up that was first tried in Cumberland county several times and was finally heard by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. It decided the State Courts had no

wili be remembered, he was not only President of the Bank of the United States, but had been for a long time a member of Congress and Speaker of the House of Representa- tives. Before he had sojourned in Pennsylvania for the purpose of more conveniently discharging his duties as a member of Congress