Lancaster County Politics:1799 - 1810 Alan Kreider The preeminent fact of the political history of America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is the decline of the Federalist Party and the ascendancy of Jeffersonian Republicanism. Pennsylvania in many ways epitomized this trend

, the angry young crusader most often attacked the Republican party. The corruption of Grant's administration gave him a huge target, but he did not neglect the state and local governments. Al- though the Pennsylvania legislature was forbidden by the state con- stitution to pass special laws for one

a source of strength and unity which brought on a revival of Federalism un- matched throughout the State of Pennsylvania. The immediate purpose of this paper is to study the politics of the war period in Lancaster County from 1811 to 1815, emphasizing the developments which occurred within the

. In 1860 he was a Republican leader in Lancaster County and eventually he succeeded Stevens as a member of Congress. He also served in the 10th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers. The stop of the Lancaster group at St. Louis provided an opportun- ity to present a gold headed cane to General Shaeffer

Democracy over the election of Andrew Jackson to the Presidency was soon ended by the rapid growth and political success of the Anti-masonic Party in Lancaster County, a movement as much supported by those rural Federalists who would vote for anything as long as it was not the detested Demo- cratic Party

a great deal about the eco- nomic and social differences long noted in other historical accounts between this Negro occupational group and the mass of common black laborers. Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a particularly representa- tive and appropriate place for a study of this nature. Most

, paid the bills and effected a permanent organization, have cared for and paid the expenses of the monument ever since." 17 "In July 1872 the county treasurer paid over the militia fund which had been collected for two years, $5,187.43." 18 Now the Monumental Association had the organization and money

the state and national levels. The purpose of my study is to make a microscopic investigation of political Antimasonry on the local level, namely in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In writing this paper, I have had three major objectives in mind. First, I shall show the role played by the Lancaster