Congress from this district, be, and they are hereby most earnestly requested, to use their utmost endeavors, as members of the National Legislature, to prevent the existence of slavery in any of the territories or states which may be created by Congress. "Resolved, As the opinion of this meeting, that, as

East Conestogoe and Pequea townships was as follows: "To the worshippfull his Majesties Justices of the Peace at the Court of General Quarter Sessions, held at Chester ye 30th day of August, 1726. "The Humble petition of Hans Grove & William Clark most Humbly showeth: "That the Taxable Townships or

ground assumed of defense or exculpation is, that the charter of the church does not permit English preaching, and that as the in- troduction of a clergyman to deliver an English sermon was a viola- tion of the provisions of that instrument, the preventive proceed- ings resorted to were justifiable." A

object of the meeting having been stated to be the formation of a society for the protection and support of distressed widows, the principles upon which the association was to be established were discussed and agreed upon. Hugh Maxwell, Ebenezer Wright, George L. Mayer, Dr. F. A. Muhlenberg and William C

country, call loudly for counter exertions on our part. "Policy, patriotism and self-interest demand effort. The ex- ample set by our fellow-citizens of New York, Philadelphia, Balti- more, Pittsburgh, Washington and other places, ought to be fol- lowed ; and it is anxiously hoped that in the county of

The editor of the Lancaster Intelligencer and Journal stated that William Michael and Adam Reigart, and perhaps one or two more, were all that remained in 1841 of that goodly company, and were the only witnesses left. The petition, if presented to the Legislature, was not acted on favorably at that

form part of the community in which we live, to give prefer- ence to articles of foreign workmanship—even though they may be superior to those which are manufactured by our own citizens, and at prices fully equal—yet, in justice, we are bound to condemn the principle as a public wrong, and the policy

said Commonwealth, thereon, was exhibited to the Supreme Court, who having perused and examined the same, concur with him in opinion that the objects, articles, and conditions therein set forth, are lawful. Witness our hands at Lancaster, the 28th day of May, 1832. John B. Gibson, Molton C. Rogers