THREE SPEECHES OF THADDEUS STEVENS EDITOR'S NOTE He who reads the biographical accounts and analyses of Lancaster County's famous congressman of the Civil War era invariably encounters references to the speeches of Thaddeus Stevens, but rarely are his better addresses presented for the reader. It

annuity of $11,000, but he compromised by dropping out of politics, while remaining active in his profession. (9) The second decade of the last century found most citizens satisfied with the progress being made by the Canal Commission, but not everyone was so minded. �In 1818, Colonel John Stevens had

so often cried 'wolf,' that now, when the wolf is at the door, it is difficult to make people believe it." 2 From the South came floods of letters from men formerly opponents of nullification and secession which Buchanan read with alarm. "They say explicitly that the election of Fre- mont involves