. He would vote to authorize the President of the United States to contract for suitable orna- ments to complete the east front of the Capitol, instead of directing the Committee on Finance to inquire, etc." �Persico In Lancaster. It was then the debate attained the point of more immediate local inter

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

- bate, of popular discussion on the hustings and movements of political Parties, be fairly traced from that time down to the outbreak of the war, it will be found that Mr. Buchanan's attitude toward slavery was no more friendly than that of the great masses of the people of the United States, and of

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

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