THE CHRISTI.AN.A. RIOT, The United States Supr,eme Court held that the Federal Constitution self-executed its provisions; that the owner 0£ a fugitive slave could retake him wherever found; and that the National government -not the State governments - must support and enforce this right; that the

September of 1851 the Mason-Dixon line had become the border between the two conflicting institutions whose unity had been sever- ed by extremist attitudes of the North and South over the slavery question. In a field two miles from Christiana, Pennsylvania, a tragedy would occur which would cause the rest

Riot had no intention of making a "general and public" resistance to a United States law and were only interested in protecting one another from kid- nappers.29 In accordance with Grier's charge, the jury found Castner Hanway not guilty after only a few minutes deliberation. In view of this decision

Caesars A. Rodney, alter- wards Attorney General. In the north the first anti-slavery society formed, that of Pennsylvania, was pre- �sided over by Benjamin Franklin and then by Benjamin Rush. The New York Manumission Society had for its first president John Jay, and for its second, Alexander Hamilton

. 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

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

yet, in its day, this riot threatened to provoke such a con- flagration of war as subsequently fol- l o we d t he " Jo h n B r o wn r a i d . " Go rsuc h was o f a conspicuous �family in Maryland, and his brother was an Episcopal minister, who most severely arraigned the civil authori- ties of

the newly-acquired region of Louis- iana. The memorial was referred to the committee on the government of Louisiana,and a provision was inserted into the act authorizing the Territory of New Orleans, that no slaves should be carried to said Territory except from some part of the United States by

Ode to the United States on its Bicentennial and to the Rededication of its People to the Principles of the Declaration of Independence by Rabbi Samson A. Shain Rabbi Samson Aaron Shain was a good friend of the Lancaster County Historical Society, and was a dear personal friend of the editor. His

A Soldier's Report: The Battle on Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain By Kersey Bradley, 79th Regiment, P. V. I. Annotated by Martin H. Bradley The 79th, "The Lancaster County Regiment," despite heavy casualties held its position at Chickamauga until ordered to withdraw.' At Chattanooga the