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

Thaddeus Stevens and Slavery Slavery, an institution strongly en- trenched. Thaddeus Stevens, a strong man. A combat to the death occurred when that man battled against that institution. To the vast store of literature on the Civil War, its causes and its ef- fects, I shall try to add nothing. The

rapidly increasing development of communication and transmission. If, however, all the great statesmen, economists and churchmen who had struggled with the slavery question since the formation of the Union were unable to solve it, without the awful carnage of a tremendous and long lasting civil war, can

was cut off, and it was impossible to say whether the events of the war might not have induced the President of the United States to convene the Congress before the month of Decem- ber. We all know that our Southern brethren are very jealous of their rights on the subject of slavery, and that their

THE SLAVERY QUESTION During the Terms of Office of John Whitehill and Robert Jenkins, Con- gressmen from Lancaster County from 1803 to 1807 and 1807 to 1811, Respectively. This paper is to consider the sla- very situation at that period of time which included the twenty-year limit of the tolerance