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

its possibilities were brought into mind, by accidentally running across the report of the debate in the United States Senate in 1836, the last year of Jackson's Administration, when the award of a monumental work in front of the Capitol building, in Washington, to a particular Italian sculptor, was

Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: The attitude of James Buchanan (a citizen of Lancaster County) towards the institution of slavery in the United States / by W. U. Hensel, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Views on slavery. Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History

the law be kept in sight to guide one who would fitly study the .general history of the times and fairly estimate the signifi­ cance of the local events, to be narrated. The Union of the States was only effected by the adoption of Art. IV; the general purpose of which was to require each State to give

AN ARTISTIC AFTERMATH I am indebted to Mr. John D. Chal- fant, artist, of Wilmington, Deh, for an opportunity to see a catalogue of the "First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Artists of the United States." which was held in Philadelphia, under the auspices of what is now the Academy of Fine

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

Club of Lancaster Schwaigaru, Wurtenberg, Germany Student Army Training Corps Taxes United States Army �230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Related Materials: Goodell, Robert H. 1942. “The First Columbia Bridge.” Journal of the