A REFUTATION OF THE SLANDEROUS STORIES AGAINST THE NAME OF THADDEUS STEVENS PLACED BEFORE THE PUBLIC BY THOMAS DIXON By Judge Charles I. Landis As a supplement to a recent letter written by First Deputy Attorney General Keller, in answer to statements made by one, Thomas Dixon, con- cerning the

on my humble grave."-Thaddeus Stevens, House of Representatives, Jan- uary, 1865. "Not a child in Pennsylvania conning a spelling book be- neath the humble rafters of a village school, who does not owe him gratitude; not a citizen rejoicing in that security which is found only in _ liberal

Pennsylvania Hall of Fame evoked a small storm of protest. Numerous telephone calls and letters— many anonymous—to this speaker is sufficient evidence to demonstrate the effect Stevens had on the history of our nation. Though dead for 106 years, the "Old Commoner" continues to inflame men and create

crossing the Delaware, that awful and icy Christmas night, his portraits were always in profile. Exactly how and when Gen. Hand acquired "Rockford" the records in the Lancaster county Court House fully tell. It seems that on Septem- be- 14, 1785, the executors of James Davis, of Lancaster, for a considera

is brought down the rivers of this province—the Delaware and Schuylkill—the Dutch employ be- tween eight and nine thousand wagons, drawn each by four horses, in bringing the produce of their farms to this market." In a diary3 kept by Captain Wiederholdt, a British officer, Who was taken as 1 William

Iroquois having obtained fire-arms from the Dutch, drove their enemy Indians to the Susquehanna this year. V. 5 p. 130. 1687 A temporary or preliminary road was opened between the Schuylkill and Susquehanna this year Penn, speaking of his proposed city on the Susque- hanna where Manor Township now lies

, their adopted son, James Buchanan, a constituent of his mortal enemy, Thaddeus Stevens- Other Presidents have often had to contend with representa- tives from their home districts who were members of the opposition party but never before or since has such a representative risen so meteorically to the

five daily newspapers. There is hardly a family in the city, however hum- ble, that does not take a daily newspaper, and many persons take two and three. But how many of the present readers of the daily newspapers know anything about the early publications? How many in this audience know when the first

court frequently had sittings at places more convenient for the petitioners. The house �of John Hannum was a commodious stone building used as a tavern in the present village of Concordville, Concord township, Delaware county, Pa., nine miles west of Chester, Pa. The petition had probably been presented

THE CHARITY OF THADDEUS STEVENS By W. FRANK GORRECHT THE old adage, the truth shall prevail, after three quarters of a century, is without establishment as to the charitable aspect of Thaddeus Stevens. During the period he lived in Lancaster whether or not Stevens was charitable was a standing