slaves escaped, has �4 THE CHRISTIANA RIOT. given me much accurate information as to their previous condition of servitude. If their contribution to the history of the encounter and the events preceding it presents, the relation of the Southern­ ers to it in a far more favorable light than has hitherto

been so- journing in merica in the year 1851, possessed with ordinary powers of pene- tration, able to see with his eyes and not with his prejudices, he might have said, " I see in the United States a young and growing nation, peopled with the best blood of the Caucasian race, self-deceived, however

North only scoffed at Southern rights. These radical Southerners saw the Christiana Riot as a legitimate reason for im- mediate secession. Radical editors felt the South must be united in its opposition to the North. Secession had to be unanimous. On September 25, 1851, the editor of the Nashville

Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: Coroner's verdict in the Christiana Riot case : an interesting paper / by Hon. W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Gorsuch, Edward. Riots--Pennsylvania--Christiana. Christiana (Pa.)--History. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1896-97

AFTERMATH SUPPLEMEN- TARY TO CHRISTIANA RIOT, 1851 Since the publication, under the auspices of this Society, sixty years after the event, of the History of the Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851, the author has obtain- ed considerable detailed information bearing on those famous

. Title: The newspapers and the Christiana Riots / by A. K. Hostetter. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Riots--Pennsylvania--Christiana. United States--Newspapers. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1911 Description: 296-308 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster

), p. 115 and Ellis and Evans, History of Lancaster County, p. 112, say 16 killed, 66 wounded, and 47 missing. 2. The letter is the property of David Meister of Springfield, Ohio, a great grandnephew of the brothers Lewis and Kersey Bradley. 3. Letter from Major General William E. Bergin, The Adjutant

Journal of the LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY A History of the Christiana Machine Company, 1863-1920 by Ferdinand L. Molz with editorial assistance of Donald J. Summar ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The writer wishes to thank all those persons whose assistance was invaluable in the preparation of this

presentations would be staged in Quarryville Memorial Park on a large old flat bed trailer, today's answer to the Conestoga wagon. When the Southern Lancaster County Historical Society, Inc, was ap- proached, it decided to portray the Christiana Riot of 1851 as its presentation. Your president and editor