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

toward the magnificent Congressional Library building. James Buchanan, then a United States Sena- tor from Pennsylvania, and who for a long time had been a citizen of Lan- caster, moved in the Senate to take up the resolution directing the Com- mittee on Finance to inquire into the expediency of

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

there is now general acquiescence in the result, the final decision was· not the prevailing doctrine of the people of the United States in 1851. Under the Constitution the Right to Reclaim the fugitive slave was no more unmistakable than the Duty to Return him. The Law of the Land gave to each State the

Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: A reminiscence of Langdon Cheves / by W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857. Legislators--United States--Biography. Slavery--Law and legislation--Pennsylvania. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County

Carlisle, and John (3), born April 21, 1768, at Carlisle." REV. THOMAS BARTON. Probably very few of us know that that the Rev. Thomas Barton was married twice. The first wife, Esther Rittenhouse, married December 8, 1753, at Old Swedes Church, Philadel- phia, whose memorial slab may be seen in St. James

the seat of gra- cious hospitality, and when his daughter, the ever-young Mrs. Brin- ton—long live her ladyship—was married in these parlors, James Bu- chanan, her father's steadfast friend, and then just chosen President of the �United States, led her from the altar to the marriage feast. Indeed

I came to separate them I found the entire lot identical. The title was "The Boquet," conspicuously mis- spelled on the outer cover, though corrected on the inner page The volume was published in Lancaster, 1858, by Murray, Young & Co., and the author was James Scott Brown, "native and to the manner