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

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

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

candidates of the Constitutional Union party— John Bell, once United States Senator from Tennessee and Secretary of War and his running mate Edward Everett, the peerless orator and edu- cator. This gathering too was held in front of the court house with Henry E. Slaymaker, Lancaster businesss man, in the

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

JAMES D. McMAHON HISTORY OF THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS MONUMENT IN LANCASTER How a Civil War monument event- ually came to the crossroads of Lan- caster where it has resisted successfully the efforts of anti-traditionists is told by a police officer with an interest in the monument and history. In

guest at Bleak House when he came to Lancaster to address the graduating class of Franklin and Marshall College in June, 1912.34 During the first World War, von Bernstorff master-minded a network of sabotage in the United States.35 Bleak House was the center of attraction for the people of Lancaster