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

biography of the men il- lustrating the period for us, who, by their influence and vote, assisted in the adjustment of the various phases of this situation as they occurred. If we go back in fancy to these years. we find our town of Lancaster the largest inland city of the United States; we find it also the

An Anti-Slavery Reminiscence The Society is indebted to Dr. Geo. L. Cassel for the priviiege of abstract- ing from the diary of his father, the late Abraham Cassel, of Marietta, an interesting account of his experience as a juror in the United States Court in a famous civil case, growing out of the

fame of Stevens is larger to-day than when he died. I can add no laurels to the mound of wreaths already distin- guishing his memory. No prejudices, for or against slavery, color my vision. No blind worship distorts my view of him who, no mat- ter how we may view him, has achiev- ed a place in history

taskmasters, who :figured in much of the anti-slavery fiction, can no longer be doubted. But if the Lancaster County Historical Society exists for any purpose it is illustrated in · its apt motto: "History herself as seen in her own work­ shop." Every such shop must show some chips and filings; and