earnings.50 Stevens, though too radical to be accepted warmly by colleagues in the legal profession, was nevertheless the acknowledged leader of the Lancaster bar and one of the outstanding barristers in the State.51 He had the best law library in the region, and collected books on history and politics

participation outside of the city, dropping as low as 8.8 percent in 1822 and averaging only 33.3 percent during the 1820's. Removed by their remoteness from the center of political controversy, the city, and unwilling to support Jackson in 1824 and 1828, most of the rural voters simply ignored the politics of