candidates of the Constitutional Union party— John Bell, once United States Senator from Tennessee and Secretary of War and his running mate Edward Everett, the peerless orator and edu- cator. This gathering too was held in front of the court house with Henry E. Slaymaker, Lancaster businesss man, in the

using high-sulphur content coke." Anthracite and charcoal iron, because they were purer and less brittle, were preferred by foundries. Much of this objection to coke pig iron was removed after 1865; by 1872 more than one- third of the pig iron manufactured in the United States was smelted in coke