cold, and clambered aboard the wagon provided for its use. They marched out Marietta Avenue all the way to Wheatland where they learned that Buchanan's party was still not ready to leave. At last, to the echo of rousing cheers, the car- riage came round to the front portico, Buchanan, Miss Lane, James

Franklin and Marshall College Library. ° George Tichnor Curtis, Life of James Buchanan, N. Y., 1883, I, pi 21. 10 Boston Herald, Aug. 28, 1883; Boston Post, Sept. 12, 1883, containing the refutation. �In those days Lancaster was a proud community which was still quite conscious of the fact that it had

" l James Buchanan, Big Wheel of the Railroads BY OLIVER S. SPROUT While much has been written concerning the early development of our railroads; two local men appear as having been slighted in the roles they filled as railroad builders. Their advancement of land transport techniques would have

county, and a few Quakers, such as Samuel Blunston and the Wrights, personal friends of James Logan, very recently settled in a strategic position from which they could keep ,an eye on the other groups. What did these groups have in common? What was James Logan's rela- tion to each of them in 1729? The

Lieutenant-General, commander-in-chief of the Army. Courtesy the Library of Congress �At the same meeting, he, and Birch and Maj. Richard Claiborne, of Virginia, the Secretary, were appointed a committee of three to prepare a "corrected and fair copy of the Constitution."39 Thus, James Thackara took a major

. The South — always a good Democratic Party strong-hold — dominated his cabinet making and cabinet. Buchanan had been selected by the Democrats as their Presidential nominee largely because, being ambassador to the Court of St. James — he had not up to the time of his election been directly involved in