endurance, and lay down on his couch to rest. The election of 1856 was the first in American history which had probed straight down to the bedrock question of Union or disunion; national survival or national disruption. It was an election in which the cliche of editors and orators was a bona fide statement

Diller : History of St. James Church, Lancaster, 1944; and Ellis, History of Lancaster County, pp. 304-305, 465-466, 478, 911. Also Robert Coleman,s will, Book 0, 1, ppi 347- 352, Lancaster County Court House. 15 For Jacobs family, cf. Forges and Furnaces, op. cit.,and Cyrus Jacobs, will, Book P, 1, 481

project over to the Canal Commissioners for completion. And, small wonder, when one learns that their surveyors had to run their lines by using ordinary spirit levels fastened to long planks because, in all of Philadelphia, they had only been able to obtain a single standard transit. The and Bridge at Pa

Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania, published in Philadel- phia, Oct., 1874, pp. 23 and 24. 2 A Biographical History of Lancaster County, compiled by Alex. Harris and published in Lancaster in 1872, p. 207. �Without money — without friends — and without subscribers — we started it on its career. It has succeeeded