as it touched Lancaster County. The area at that time was served with four local dailies and it may be of interest to look at the political complexions of these newssheets. The oldest was the Intelligencer which had its beginning in 1799. During the years that James Buchanan was aspiring to the

presidential elections of 1808 and 1812 substantiated this claim. The State maintained an unbrok- en loyalty to the national administration throughout this period. The first decade of the nineteenth century was marked by a suc- cession of Democratic Governors, United States Senators and Con- gressmen; and the

farmers' markets are unique. Within a twenty mile radius of the city, history offers to tourists the birthplace of 3 �Robert Fulton; Wheatland, the home of James Buchanan; the furnaces of the old Iron Masters of Pennsylvania, and Baron Stiegel's home; old Pequea and Donegal churches; the Cornwall mine

Democrats, now fearing the worst, tried to sal- vage the election by unleashing their big political gun, James Buchanan, the Friday night (October 9, 1829) prior to the election. At that time he made "a flourishing speech at a meeting in the Court House against the anti-masons and in favor [as the Anti

by the earli- est adventurers to the Chesapeake, one of whom, Sir James Argol, wrote to England in 1613 that he hoped to make a cut, "between our bay and the Dela- ware." Argol was apparently in the region of Lancaster County nearly as early as Captain John Smith and Stephen Brule. Vol. 4 p. 270