have gone to Harris- burg, likely to find sitters and patron- age at the then new State Capital. Strange as it may seem to some of its present people, Harrisburg was then a place of much less importance than Lancaster—and, despite its pres- ent excess of population, some of our vain townsmen think the

Carpenter and James Wright as a member of the House of Repre- sentatives, Hiltzheimer kept on buying and trading horses, attending barbecues and burials, drinking punch and buy- ing old furniture at widows' vendues; but something moved him to come to Lancaster on May 13, 1768. He set out before sunrise, and

citizens of Lancaster, held in the Court House November 27, 1819, at which Hon. Walter Franklin presided, a commit- tee of three framed the resolutions, which were adopted. They protest- ed most vigorously against the exist- ence of slavery in, or its extension into, the territories or new States. with

preacher in Mercersburg on a first day had deprecated the war with England as a judgment and calamity. Whatever glory attached to Mr. Buchanan's early career—and it was certainly an illustrious one—belongs wholly to Lancaster county. None of it, we are confident, is to be shared by the "dark and bloody

revered. �Not only in his songs of praise, Or when in prayer he knelt— Approving conscience must be his When ere with men he dealt. Profound respect at home, abroad, In church and Congress Hall, Was meted him as honor due, And rendered him by all. Oh! dearly prize this heritage, 'Tis more than house and