, THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- TIVES OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA: Learning that your Honorable bodies contemplate passing an Act of Assembly to provide for the erection of a penitentiary for the confinement of criminals convicted in the central part of the State, we, the undersigned Com

hostile operations of. the British King and Parliament, the United States of America, at a time when they were totally unprovided with Fleets or Armies . . . " On 24 July 1777 Congress resolved "That it be recommended to the executive authorities of each of the United States, to divide their states into

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

in the United States. Lancaster's prolific early printer, Francis Bailey, a native of Sadsbury Township, did much to keep booksellers' shelves filled with works of every variety in the eighteenth century. Two early poets were Sallie Hastings and Benjamin G. Herr of Lancaster County. Mrs. Hastings was

, "The most zealous partisans of the protective tariff were the iron masters from Pen- nsylvania."' Thus, when Samuel J. Reeves and Edward Bates Grubb joined their colleagues of the iron-making fraternity at Philadelphia on 20 December 1849 to discuss the state of that industry, it was not surprising for