- land, Alexandria, Winchester, Rich- mond, Hillsborough, Charlotte, Cam- den, Salisbury and Augusta, whose product rivalled in reputation that of Lancaster itself. The frontiersmen were armed with them almost uni- versally, and many had found their way into the hands of the Indians be- longing to the

expresses the hope of seeing Mr. Buchanan before he sails. Every commission of that char- acter in that day was executed abroad; and just as Persico set out for his native country to begin his group, Hiram Powers, soon to be- come the second of America's great sculptors, made his first journey to Italy to

slaves. Education, and particu- larly religious education, was becom- ing common amongst them. In sev- eral of the States, the question of gradual emancipation had come to be freely discussed. The question had been seriously debated in Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri; and the doctrine had found

it be the cause of special wonder that a hand­ ful of Marylanders in lawful search of their escaped: prop­ erty, and a larger group of free and fugitive negroes, with the "embattled farmers" who sympathized with them, should have made the hills of this peaceful Chester Valley echo with gun shots and