AFTERMATH SUPPLEMEN- TARY TO CHRISTIANA RIOT, 1851 Since the publication, under the auspices of this Society, sixty years after the event, of the History of the Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851, the author has obtain- ed considerable detailed information bearing on those famous

fugitive slave act and about a year after the "Christiana riot." Mr. Cassel records the facts and reflects his opinions of the case in a memoir which has great personal and local interest. Substantially he says: In the fall of 1852 I and others in the State were summoned as jurors to the District Court of

study and history would make such an admir- able entertainment and valuable con- tribution to local art and literature. If, for example, the co-operation of the Historical Society and the Iris Club, working through a joint com- mittee representing both could be secured to embody in the annals of the one

just back of the building, and had a first-class water power. He put in the best machinery of that day, and started business on an extensive scale. He ran it until the days of the war of 1812, and, it is said, had made money; but the panic succeeding the war ruin- ed him, and the property was sold by