sort of middle ground between the operations of the "Gap gang" and the refuge territory of the fugitives. Here in March 1851 a posse, claimed to be led by a rather notorious member of the "Gap gang, " entered the Chamberlain house, severely beat a col­ ored man named John Williams employed there, who

related to American Democracy. The conflict between freedom and slavery eventually caused the Mason-Dixon line to become as pronounced as the Berlin Wall of today. The gradual separation between the northern and southern societies was the result of the awakening to the desire to be free from bondage. The

bushels of wheat in eight hours, and of threshing other grain in proportion. The owner notified the public that he intended to thresh every Monday, from 10 to 11 o'clock, for four consecutive weeks, in order to give persons desirous of seeing the machine in operation an opportunity to gratify their