vote was taken here for the local choice of State can- didates. James Pollock, for Governor, and Henry L. Mott, for Canal Com- missioner were the favorite candi- dates and had the local support. Pol- lock, be it remembered, became Gov- ernor of Pennsylvania, by election as an American, just before the

scholar and a poet— in a day when Lancaster county poets were ever rarer than now. He was a patron of Benjamin West and quite a gallant. As his second wife died in 1801, and his gravestone in St. James records that he was not buried until 1810, I cannot understand why he did not wed a third—unless the

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

Chester Valley; and two main lines of the Under­ ground Railroad ran through Lancaster County, close to where the two lines of the great steam railway which tra­ verses it from east to west are now located. A9quiescing in this decision Pennsylvania, in 1847, re- . pealed the provisions of the Act of 1826

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

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