of rival candidates. The first party to go into action was the Democratic party which opened its convention in the hotbed of secession chatter, Charleston, South Carolina. It deadlocked after ten days and only reconvened forty-six days later in Baltimore at which time United States Senator Stephen A

he embraced the religion of his fathers. He was made so by lot in 1756, for such was the custom of this singular people. Then the Mennonites expelled him for being too evangelical. He then joined the United Brethren and afterward became a member of the Methodist Church. I was born in the old