. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Shippen family. Architecture, Domestic--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County. Lancaster (Pa.)--Social life and customs. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1914 Description: 251-274 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County

Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: A reminiscence of Langdon Cheves / by W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857. Legislators--United States--Biography. Slavery--Law and legislation--Pennsylvania. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County

difficulties, and by friendly jurisdictions North or South. A case pregnant with great legal and political conse­ quences finally arose under the conflicting claims of Mary­ land and Harford County on one side and Pennsylvania and York County on the other. It reached the Supreme Court of the United States and

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 master to follow and reclaim his flee- ing bondsmen wherever found, but re- quiring the State Courts and legal authorities to enforce this ri ght. In construing that Act in 1842, in Prigg vs. Pennsylvania, 16 Peters, 539, the Supreme Court of the United States— a Massachusetts Whig, Mr. Justice

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

AN ARTISTIC AFTERMATH I am indebted to Mr. John D. Chal- fant, artist, of Wilmington, Deh, for an opportunity to see a catalogue of the "First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Artists of the United States." which was held in Philadelphia, under the auspices of what is now the Academy of Fine

locality of his birth, life and death. The leading poem, which furnishes the title, is ill the Wordsworthian strain; it shows that he was a student and lover of nature, of the quiet and peaceful. He liked "bright, morning colors glitter- ing o'er the dew." He heard the echoes and saw the visions of out