LANCASTER COUNTY'S RELATION TO SLAVERY, PARTICULAR PHASES OFSLAVERY IN LANCASTER COUNTY. The following interesting contribu- tion to the history of slavery in this county was read before the Lancaster County Historical Society by Miss Martha B. Clark: Contracts for and Commercial Trans- actions in

Tuesday, November 23rd, 1819, a largely-attended meeting of citizens was held in the court house in Lancaster for the purpose of consulting upon measures that might prevent the introduction of slavery into any territory or state hereafter to be formed, or admitted into the Union. The Hon. Walter Franklin

and the theme before the store box congress was usually some phase of the slavery question. Chauncey M. Depew in his "Memories of Eighty Years" says these were the schools in which were developed the thought and the conviction which made possible the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. In the Fremont

The Attitude of James Buchanan (a Cit- izen of Lancaster County) towards the Institution of Slavery in the United States It is the happy and appropriate function of an historical society, with even the local limitations of ours, to fearlessly explore and faithfully chron- icle the events of general

Thaddeus Stevens and Slavery Slavery, an institution strongly en- trenched. Thaddeus Stevens, a strong man. A combat to the death occurred when that man battled against that institution. To the vast store of literature on the Civil War, its causes and its ef- fects, I shall try to add nothing. The

would be a slaveholder. However, it is important to recall how deeply Pennsylvania Quakers were in- volved in the slave trade during the Colonial Period. The Quaker leadership had permitted slavery when the colony was young and their involvement in and toleration of the slave trade did not really

Slavery. It is hoped this plan will result in a con- centrated research upon this single topic, by various members of the Society, and that, thereby, the last authoritative word on the subject may be the product which our Society's research and industry brings forth. For our Society to be the final au

THADDEUS STEVENS' ATTI- TUDE TOWARD THE OMNIBUS BILL In deference to the writer and at his special request this paper appears in the spelling recommended by the Simplified Spelling Board: Quotations showing that slavery was regarded as a divine institution, and that negroes wer to be kept in

of Mary- land, for divers good causes and con- siderations, me thereunto moving, have released from slavery, liberated, manumitted, and set free from and after the twelfth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five my male slave named Giles Wallis, aged four