The religious convictions and character of James Buchanan, fifteenth president of the United States - a citizen of Lancaster County - a member of the Presbyterian church
"A considerable part of this paper has been published heretofore as an address on 'A Pennsylvania Presbyterian president, ' before the Presbyterian social union, at Philadelphia, November 25, 1907. Since that time much new matter has been found and added."
The "Scotch-Irish" in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Response to a toast at the anniversary dinner of the Scotch-Irish Society of Pennsylvania, Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, February 21, A.D. 1905
Presbyterianism in the Pequea valley. Memorial address at the dedication of the founders' windows, Bellevue Presbyterian church, Gap, Pa., September 8, 1912. And other historical addresses
Copy 2 bound in cloth with red spine and gold lettering.
Contents
Presbyterianism in the Pequea Valley -- Appendix A. The memorial windows -- Chronology of Presbyterianism in the Pequea Valley -- Historic Marietta -- Sally Hastings, literary grass widow of Donegal [A paper read before the Lancaster county historical society, Nov. 1906] -- An old time worthy -- Appendix Tannenberg: a famous organ builder -- The Picturesque Pennsylvania Germans [from the Lancaster, Pa., New Era, April 9, 1910]
A plea for Pennsylvania : being the response of W.U. Hensel. To the Toast, "The State of Pennsylvania" at the third annual festival of the Pennsylvania Society of New York, at Waldorf-Astoeria Hotel ... 1901
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 18, no. 4
Summary
This journal article contains a letter sent by German-American citizens in Pennsylvania to President John Adams. In the letter, they ask for his help in being compensated for their imprisonment that was imposed for their participation in the protest against the tax imposed upon their property. Their protest is known as Fries's Rebellion after the leader of the protest, John Fries. The article also describes Fries's trial and conviction for treason and his pardon by President Adams.
Notes
From Britanica.com: "Fries's Rebellion, (1799), uprising, in opposition to a direct federal property tax, by farmers in eastern Pennsylvania led by John Fries (c. 1750-1818). In July of 1798, the Federalist-controlled U.S. Congress, which greatly needed revenues for an anticipated war with France, had voted a direct federal tax on all real property, including land, buildings, and slaves. This tax, which caused widespread national resentment against the John Adams administration, infuriated the German farmers of Bucks, Northampton, and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania. Eventually, several hundred farmers took up arms under the leadership of John Fries. At Bethlehem, Pa., Fries and his men forced, by intimidation rather than by actual violence, the release of a group of tax resisters who had been imprisoned under the custody of the federal marshal. In response, President Adams called out a force of federal troops and militia, who marched into the rebellious counties and began making wholesale arrests of the insurgents. John Fries was captured and subsequently tried twice, convicted of treason on each occasion, and sentenced to hang. He was pardoned by Adams in April 1800, when the president declared a general amnesty for all those who had been involved in the 'rebellion'."
An historic balcony, an address delivered at the hotel Brunswick, Lancaster, Pa., March 18, 1915, on the occasion of unveiling and dedicating a memorial tablet
Jacob Eichholtz, painter; some "loose leaves" from the ledger of an early Lancaster artist. An address delivered at the opening of an exposition of "the evolution of portraiture in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," under the auspices of the Lancaster County historical society and the Iris club
