:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Buehrle, Robert K. Title: Thaddeus Stevens' attitude toward the Omnibus Bill / by Dr. R. K. Buehrle. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868. Compromise of 1850. Slavery--Law and

Thaddeus Stevens and the Southern States Thaddeus Stevens was very bitter in his political enmity to the Southern States. He resented the influence in both the Houses of Congress of the members from that section, which usually returned, by re-election, most of its able men, therefore giving it

Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: The attitude of James Buchanan (a citizen of Lancaster County) towards the institution of slavery in the United States / by W. U. Hensel, Esq. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 --Views on slavery. Slavery--Law and legislation--United States--History

of the debate on the pass- age of the act exists. It was stormy, no doubt. North Carolina's meaning was plain. Kentucky, in 1792, and Tennessee, in 1798, were admitted from this territory as slave States. To forestall this, Vermont was admitted as a free State in 1791, and we had eight slave and

of slave owners and slaves in Slave States·; nor as to the rights of slave owners· against their escaped slaves in Free States, but as to the ·extension of slavery and the status of the institution in the National territories. · The prevailing popular misapprehension on this subject may be easily

illustrious men, asking to devise means for removing the incumbency of slavery from the United States. This Pennsylvania society continued in existence until 1862, when Presi- dent Lincoln sent forth his proclama- tion for the abolition of slavery, and declared that all persons held as slaves "are and

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

cash," issued paper currency to the extent of six thousand pounds. �Massachusetts and South Carolina were the initial colonies in the United States to introduce the use of a paper currency without a metallic reserve to sustain it, and the others were not slow,on one pretext or another, to fol- low