were James Humes and George Hamilton. Their furnace was purchased from John F. Steinman, Humes' assignee, in 1843, by Hon. James Buchanan (afterwards president) and John Reynolds of Cornwall, Lebanon County. �Buchanan visited the furnace in June, 1843. The iron made at this furnace had a high

in the habeas corpus case of James Somerset that slavery was contrary to the laws of England and could not exist there, the Colonial Assemblies, in the face of this decision, contin- ued to enact laws in favor of slavery. The laws regulating the affairs of the Colonies were controlled by provision of