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

party," enroute to York for a scheduled 3 P.M. meeting, was delayed for forty-five minutes in Columbia because Lincoln High- way traffic was blocked by trains.) Lancaster County Congressman W. W. Greist introduced a bill asking congressional consent to the Commissioners of Lancaster and York Counties to

IN LANCASTER COUNTY The United States has had a long history of third-party movements, which, despite their usual small vote, have played a significant role in American political history and have made their contribution to the main- tenance of government by unanimity.' The first major third-party

emergence of the Know-Nothing party resulted from dif- ferent factors in different geographic locations, but everywhere it existed it was a part of one of the strangest political eras in United States history. Its successes and failures in Lancaster County, Penn- sylvania were typical in many ways of the

the Northern Negro". New England Quarterly, XXXIV (March, 1961), 50-73. "The Federal Government and the Free Negro, 1790-1860". Jour- nal of Negro History, XLIII (1958), 261-278. North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860. Chi- cago: University of Chicago Press, 1961. Meier, August