seven Pullman coaches was due in Lancaster, from the greatest battle field in American history, the crowd began to gather in the fields to the north and south of the Pennsylvania Railroad station; and fully an hour before the train was to arrive, streets in the neighborhood were filled with anxious

—Speeches of welcome—The Republicans at Washington—Buchanan and Scott—The firing upon Fort Sumter—Effect of this event upon Buchanan's attitude towards the South—Buchanan a War Democrat—Buchanan's attitude towards Charleston and Virginia contrasted— Buchanan and the Slavery Question—Pennsylvania Democrats

—editor of the Lancaster Journal and the father of three distinguished sons: General John Fulton Reynolds, who fell at Gettysburg; Rear-Admiral Wil- liam Reynolds and General James Le Fevre Reynolds; and raised by Wor- shipful Master Brother George H. Whitaker, on January 24th, 1817. About three years