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

-night to unveil a memorial tablet, the gift of our late fellow member, the Hon. William Uhler Hensel. This tablet is intended to commemorate the pres- ence in past years upon this spot of three Presidents of the United States, and two other candidates for the same high office, but which they failed to

."—Jefferson Davis, in United States Senate, February 13, 1850. Preliminary Remarks in Extenuation of the Imperfections of the Paper. The Hon. James Bryce, in his Hls- tory of the Holy Roman Empire, p. 50, says: "The interest of history lies not least in this, that it shows us how men hav at different times

; therefore, if the individual was convicted there would be nothing to prevent the other voters of a State from electing representatives to Con- gress, especially if the North held that the Southern States would not secede from the Union. This stand would make his ground tenable, that the United States

. and the separation of one pound of the wool from the seeds was regarded as a good day's work for one woman. So limited was the production, on account of the labor, that even high prices did not stimulate its cultivation, and the entire cotton crop of the United States in 1791 was only about two

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

cash," issued paper currency to the extent of six thousand pounds. �Massachusetts and South Carolina were the initial colonies in the United States to introduce the use of a paper currency without a metallic reserve to sustain it, and the others were not slow,on one pretext or another, to fol- low