the local bar, devoted themselves to politics. Among the politically active law- yers of the time were James Buchanan, who when Stevens arrived was Senator from Pennsylvania, Thomas Henry Burrowes, one of Stevens's old political allies, and Amos Ellmaker, who in 1832 was the Antimasonic party's

DANIEL PRATT 1809 . . . . 1887 "GENERAL DANIEL PRATT, the great American traveller and standing candidate for the Presidency, dropped into our sanc- tum this morning, looking as fierce and wide awake as ever and not a whit discouraged by his failure to reach the White House in his previous presidential

retirement from the office of Collector of the Port of Philadelphia. Throughout his entire life he was active in political affairs and as the mentor of James Buchanan, he has been given prime credit for putting Mr. Buchanan in the White House. Later, differences arose between him and Buchanan and he became

abolitionists of dividing the party and defeating Johnston, calling for a universal return to conservative "Old Guard principles."' The Democrats took pleasure in announc- ing that Johnston's defeat would finally disintegrate the Whig party into a number of factional interests. James Buchanan, a native of

Ben Wade. Wendell Phillips, Peter Cooper, and Henry Carey; the gold block included Garfield, Blaine, Conkling, Morrill, Fessenden, and Washburne.68 Stevens had limited respect for his fellow countian Simon Cam- eron and his regard for James Buchanan, a Lancaster Democrat, can be described as that of

Society of Pennsylvania hereinafter cited as HSP; Buchanan to James D. Ellis, 14 December 1867, Buchanan MSS, Library of Congress hereinafter cited as LC- Election re- turns are contained in The Tribune Almanac for the Y ears 1838 to 1868 In- clusive (New York, 1868) 2: 44. o A. K. McClure to Gratz [n-d

of steel-framed spectacles. Nearly all were gray- headed, ruddy-cheeked, bright-eyed, and snowy-whiskered. Judging from his conversation, every man was either a school mate or a chum of George M. Dallas and James Buchanan. They talked not of the crops nor of the weather. They seemed to be far more

tangible results of his labor. In 1852 the corner- stone of the college's new academic building was laid. Shortly after it was occupied a library was established and a presidential house constructed. Enrollments in both the college and the seminary in- creased noticeably. In May, 1854, the synod's

, 1876 The house of Jacob Lindemuth in Manheim is today the Washing- ton House on Market Square. "JAMES BLACK, ESQ. of this city at the Prohibition State com- mittee meeting in Philadelphia yesterday was chosen as a Presidential Elector for the Ninth District." —September 6, 1876 Four years previous

1896-1920 Lancaster County has been a Republican stronghold since the election of Lincoln in 1860. Following the Civil War, Lancaster County voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate only once, Lyndon B. Johnson over Barry Goldwater in 1964 in one of the greatest landslide elections in history