LANCASTER COUNTY'S RELATION TO SLAVERY, PARTICULAR PHASES OFSLAVERY IN LANCASTER COUNTY. The following interesting contribu- tion to the history of slavery in this county was read before the Lancaster County Historical Society by Miss Martha B. Clark: Contracts for and Commercial Trans- actions in

Slavery. It is hoped this plan will result in a con- centrated research upon this single topic, by various members of the Society, and that, thereby, the last authoritative word on the subject may be the product which our Society's research and industry brings forth. For our Society to be the final au

was cut off, and it was impossible to say whether the events of the war might not have induced the President of the United States to convene the Congress before the month of Decem- ber. We all know that our Southern brethren are very jealous of their rights on the subject of slavery, and that their

SIDELIGHTS ON SLAVERY In presenting this paper to our So- ciety it is with no expectation of giv- ing you anything new, startling or of great value. It only deals with sun- dry items which have been omitted by the preceding writers on the pres- ent subject, and which, however, seem- ed to be

THE SLAVERY QUESTION During the Terms of Office of John Whitehill and Robert Jenkins, Con- gressmen from Lancaster County from 1803 to 1807 and 1807 to 1811, Respectively. This paper is to consider the sla- very situation at that period of time which included the twenty-year limit of the tolerance

Thaddeus Stevens and Slavery Slavery, an institution strongly en- trenched. Thaddeus Stevens, a strong man. A combat to the death occurred when that man battled against that institution. To the vast store of literature on the Civil War, its causes and its ef- fects, I shall try to add nothing. The

THADDEUS STEVENS' ATTI- TUDE TOWARD THE OMNIBUS BILL In deference to the writer and at his special request this paper appears in the spelling recommended by the Simplified Spelling Board: Quotations showing that slavery was regarded as a divine institution, and that negroes wer to be kept in