difficulties, and by friendly jurisdictions North or South. A case pregnant with great legal and political conse­ quences finally arose under the conflicting claims of Mary­ land and Harford County on one side and Pennsylvania and York County on the other. It reached the Supreme Court of the United States and

1850. However, the law forced the north to make the decis- ion as to whether or not they would obey the law and allow slavery to be- come part of a free society. In Christiana, Pennsylvania, the people of the north made that choice, a decision which would contribute to the "Great" conflict of the

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

; indictment on charges of treason against the United States for thirty-eight residents of Lancaster County; and an extraordinary degree of excitement throughout the na- tion. �The riot excited widespread interest. In tiny weekly newspapers of hamlets in New Hampshire and South Carolina, and in large dailies

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

fled from the justice of this State, and has taken refuge within the State of Pennsylvania. Now, Therefore, Pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution and Laws of the United States in such case made and provided, I do here- by request that the said Abraham Johnson (colored) be apprehended and

city and county have jointly published more newspapers and peri- odicals of various kinds during the past 150 years than any other com- munity of equal area and population in the whole United States. The number is about 270,so far as ascertained, with doubtless an unknown number still to be added. Of

The Columbia Race Riots By William Frederic Worner Homer, 3OOO years ago, said : " Most sons are inferior to their fathers, a few are equal, and fewer still are superior to them." The history of Columbia occupies a unique place in the annals of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. From an early period

the United States in the Eastern District of Penn- sylvania, at Philadelphia. After serv- ing on several juries a fugitive slave case name up that was first tried in Cumberland county several times and was finally heard by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. It decided the State Courts had no