Governor of Maryland, con- firms this, and the statement that Governor Johnson, of Pennsylvania, had refused to honor the requisition for the fugitive. It also illustrates �the manner of obtaining requisition. The correspondence runs thus: Baltimore County, November 29, 1849. Philip Francis Thomas, Esq

shops all along the frontiers of Pennsylvania and the Southern colonies. Lancaster the Gunsmith's Home. "The New England people never took to the rifle in those days, and when the Revolution broke out there was not a rifle-shop in existence any- where east of the Hudson river. In 1768 Sir William

the United States in the Eastern District of Penn- sylvania, at Philadelphia. After serv- ing on several juries a fugitive slave case name up that was first tried in Cumberland county several times and was finally heard by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. It decided the State Courts had no

Arts, in 1811. It was a notable and significant event in the history of the arts in this then new coun- try. The title page of this rather modest pamphlet of forty-seven pages bears the quotation from Pope. "Dare to have sense yourselves." It was printed by Tho. L. Plowman, and sold at the reasonable

General Horace A. Por- ter, of military and diplomatic fame, Gen. Grant's chief of staff and one- time Ambassador to France; he re- sides in New York. Another was the famous Judge William A. Porter, of the Philadelphia Bench and Bar; his son, William W. Porter, was one of the first Judges of the Superior

undoubtedly secured to him by reason of his residence for some years in Lancaster , nearly a century ago, and to his popularity in social circles here. Indeed, most of the earlier art works in this locality and other parts of New America were executed by Italians. In the "Lancaster Jour- nal," August 19, 1796

- tension of the system into the Terri- tories and new States, and the obliga- tions of the citizens of free Common- wealths to treat fugitive bondsmen as chattels, were not then before the country for consideration; but it was a corollary from the legal status of slavery that, if it existed by right, the