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

wili be remembered, he was not only President of the Bank of the United States, but had been for a long time a member of Congress and Speaker of the House of Representa- tives. Before he had sojourned in Pennsylvania for the purpose of more conveniently discharging his duties as a member of Congress

): Capitals (Cities) Lancaster (Pa.)--Capital and capitol. United States--Capital and capitol. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1896-97 Description: [111]-113 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 1, no. 4 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.1

its possibilities were brought into mind, by accidentally running across the report of the debate in the United States Senate in 1836, the last year of Jackson's Administration, when the award of a monumental work in front of the Capitol building, in Washington, to a particular Italian sculptor, was

An Anti-Slavery Reminiscence The Society is indebted to Dr. Geo. L. Cassel for the priviiege of abstract- ing from the diary of his father, the late Abraham Cassel, of Marietta, an interesting account of his experience as a juror in the United States Court in a famous civil case, growing out of the

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