of cours,e impossible, as Mr. Lincoln pointed out, for the republic to endure forever half slave and half free -to run a geographical marker through a great and compli­ cated moral, economic and political issue -especially in 1 1 �2 TIIE CHRISTIANA RIOT, view of the far flung border line and the

, State that they labour under many Inconveniences in attending on the Seats of Justice in the Several Counties, to which they respectively belong. "ln the first place Some of us are Distant Twenty seven Miles from them. "2ndly. The great number of Suits in the Counties of Lancaster , Chester, and Berks