therefore taken to transfer bodily the following extract from A. C. Buell's "History of Andrew Jackson" (Vol. 1,pp. 72 to 77). It is printed in connection with the statement by Jackson that when he entered what is now the State of Tennessee, in 1788, he had, besides other equipment, "a new rifle, made by

The Attitude of James Buchanan (a Cit- izen of Lancaster County) towards the Institution of Slavery in the United States It is the happy and appropriate function of an historical society, with even the local limitations of ours, to fearlessly explore and faithfully chron- icle the events of general

- pecting to be a great man there, that so many lawyers he came in contact with there were his equals and so many again his superiors that he gave it up. Of all this we may fairly say: "Im- portant—if true." The facts, how- ever, will scarcely bear it out. Mr. Buchanan was born April 23, 1791. He was

-cultivated estate, embellished with lawn, fountain and other adornments; the little stream that used to run a "tilt hammer" now being devoted to less practical, but more ornamental, uses. �This rare specimen of the best do- mestic architecture of the period in which it was built has been highly improved and

considered a hard one or not will depend much upon the temper with which the mind may contemplate the positive and: artificial rights of the master over the mother, on the' one hand, or on the other the natural rights of her child." After the Act of 1826 the border troubles, especially be­ tweellJ York and