fled from the justice of this State, and has taken refuge within the State of Pennsylvania. Now, Therefore, Pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution and Laws of the United States in such case made and provided, I do here- by request that the said Abraham Johnson (colored) be apprehended and

boundary between the United States and the Spanish posses- sions on our southern borders. That work accomplished, Governor McKean, of Pennsylvania, in 1801, appointed him Secretary of the State Land Office, which he held until 1808. Lan- caster being at that time the State Capital, he moved to this place

An Anti-Slavery Reminiscence The Society is indebted to Dr. Geo. L. Cassel for the priviiege of abstract- ing from the diary of his father, the late Abraham Cassel, of Marietta, an interesting account of his experience as a juror in the United States Court in a famous civil case, growing out of the

Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: An early canal project / by W. U. Hensel, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Canals--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1913 Description: 101-105 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical

All Early Letter by Thaddeus Stems, In an address on "Thaddeus Stevens as a Country Lawyer," which I pre- pared sor the Pennsylvania State Bar Association last June, and subsequent- ly elaborated and illustrated sor publi- cation in the Lancaster County Histor- ical Society proceedings, I avowed

toward the magnificent Congressional Library building. James Buchanan, then a United States Sena- tor from Pennsylvania, and who for a long time had been a citizen of Lan- caster, moved in the Senate to take up the resolution directing the Com- mittee on Finance to inquire into the expediency of

the new turnpike. That highway, the first of its kind in all the United States, was an object of much public interest and private concern, The in- spectors moved slowly and stopped over night at Hunt Downing's (now Downingtown), where they had "ex- ceedingly good accommodations;" they proceeded next

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