York people, then, we were not the United States of America until 1781. But let us refer back to the Journalsof Congress. On 4 June 1777, a resolution of the Board of War stated "Whereas Congress did on the 16th day of September in the year 1776 resolve, that the legislative powers of each of the

. Vondersmith, associate judge of the Lancaster County Courts, delivered an essay on "Civilization and Its Effects Upon Mankind." About ten years later Judge Vondersmith fled from Lancaster civilization ahead of the United States marshal who held a warrant for his arrest. The civilized judge, it was alleged

nineteenth century large numbers of immigrants began arriving in the United States from European nations whose culture was quite different from that of Western Europe and the British Isles from whence had come our early settlers. By this time many Americans had forgotten their own ancestors were immigrants

arrested for pandering. During World War II prostitution in Lancaster revived as girls and young women sought out in sleazy bars the many soldiers and sailors on leave. The military police and the Navy shore patrol watched over places with bad reputations, and cooperated with the local police in halting

ambitious undertaking, but it was fraught from the beginning with problems. The nation was just recovering from the Panic of 1873, and the Reconstruction period following the War Between the States was coming to an end although un- pleasant feelings continued to divide North and South. A nasty presidential

Republican attorney, defeated David McMullen, a Democrat lawyer. In 1886 William A. Morton, a workhorse of the Democracy, was victorious over Rosenmiller, but in 1888 Edward Edgerly, a Civil War veteran and Republican, defeated Morton. In 1890 and 1892 Robert Clark carried the Democratic banner to victory