empires ought to be worth at least one page somewhere in the annals of the nation it has created and defended. But thus far that page has been begrudged. Let us write one. When Brought to Pennsylvania. "The art of making rifles was brought to this country in the year 1721, when a small colony of Swiss

slave was property, and could proper- ly be reclaimed like an ox; and that if an existing State could settle this purely domestic question upon its own authority, the people of a newly-or- ganizing Commonwealth should be al- lowed to do the same. I speak, of course, from the viewpoint of the lawyer, and

full faith and credit to the public acts and :records of other States. The exact language of its section 3 was: "No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping �nto another, shall, in Conse­ quence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or

it is said that Johnson, who was in Philadelphia at the time, passed westward on the railroad without stopping at Chris- tiana, where the dead body of Gorsuch lay. He was a Whig and was charged with permitting his anti-slavery sym- pathies to weaken his enforcement of law as an executive; and so