IN THE RIOT �TJIE LAW OF THE LAND. 7 reclamations and ruthless kidnappings were common occur­ rences in the lower parts of the Border States along the line of Slavery and Freedom. Pennsylvania, after respectful hearing of the Maryland Commissioners and due considera­ tion for their s·uggestions

Governor of Maryland, con- firms this, and the statement that Governor Johnson, of Pennsylvania, had refused to honor the requisition for the fugitive. It also illustrates �the manner of obtaining requisition. The correspondence runs thus: Baltimore County, November 29, 1849. Philip Francis Thomas, Esq

vote was taken here for the local choice of State can- didates. James Pollock, for Governor, and Henry L. Mott, for Canal Com- missioner were the favorite candi- dates and had the local support. Pol- lock, be it remembered, became Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, by election as an American, just before the

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

make up our composite citizenship. In the Pennsylvania-German settlements, such as the Strasburg-Lampeter-Pe- quea tract, Landis Valley and Graf- Thal, numerous farms are in the same name and family, as two centuries ago. In the Caernarvon region the footprint of the Welsh iron master has not yet been

A Reminiscence of Langdon Chews In an examination of the many curi- ous legal questions growing out of the rights and liabilities of slaves from another State venturing upon the free soil of Pennsylvania, there is a re- ported case in 1814 which has a pecu- liar local interest because the slave