Installation of The Hon. Thaddeus Stevens In the Pennsylvania Hall of Fame An address by John Ward Willson Loose 16 November 1974 at Founders Hall, Girard College, Philadelphia Ladies and gentlemen, officers, judges, and guests of the Penn- sylvania Hall of Fame's Third Annual Banquet: I am pleased

The Idealist as Opportunist An Analysis of Thaddeus Stevens' Support in Lancaster County 1843 - 1866 By Andrew Robertson Introduction In 1858, Lancaster county voters performed an act that is unique in Amer- ican history: in the election that year, they made the President of the United States

. The construction con- tended for by the plaintiffs in error would be an exclusion of the citizens of our sister States from these foun- tains of health, unwarranted by any principle of humanity or policy, or the spirit and letter of the law." In his Congressional reminiscences of Mr. Stevens, the late

, Millersville, Pa. · PRESS OF THENEW ERA PRINTING COMPANY LANCATER PA. THE SPEECH OF HON. THADDEUS STEVENS IN FAVOR OF FREE SCHOOLS. The Act of 1834, providing for the organization of a system of Common Schools in Pennsylvania, was framed by Senator Samuel Breck, and passed in the Senate with three negative

freedom from vituperation and defamation, it sets an example which the politicians of to- day could follow with credit to them- selves, something they are not likely to do, however. F. R. D. First Letter to Thaddeus Stevens. Lancaster, August 16, 1832. Dear Sir: I rec'd your letter yes- terday and had

MG0115_F003_In02 [transcription is from Palmer & Ochoa, The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 1: January 1814–March 1865, page 172] Caledonia Der. 19, 1860 Dear Sir I had expected to be back before this—But a touch of rheumatism made me halt, expecting Car adjournment for the holidays—If