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Congress from this district, be, and they are hereby most earnestly requested, to use their utmost endeavors, as members of the National Legislature, to prevent the existence of slavery in any of the territories or states which may be created by Congress. "Resolved, As the opinion of this meeting, that, as

East Conestogoe and Pequea townships was as follows: "To the worshippfull his Majesties Justices of the Peace at the Court of General Quarter Sessions, held at Chester ye 30th day of August, 1726. "The Humble petition of Hans Grove & William Clark most Humbly showeth: "That the Taxable Townships or

nation;" and "exhorting" Congress to prepare for war. The effect of this information upon public opinion was instantaneous and far-reaching. Marshall's disclosures in the dispatches "produced such a shock upon the Republican mind as had not been seen since our independence." Public meetings were held

ground assumed of defense or exculpation is, that the charter of the church does not permit English preaching, and that as the in- troduction of a clergyman to deliver an English sermon was a viola- tion of the provisions of that instrument, the preventive proceed- ings resorted to were justifiable." A

Lancaster Chamber of Commerce, entitled, "Seeing America's Garden Spot, Lancaster: the Red Rose City of Pennsylvania." While I heartily commend the Chamber of Commerce for its praise-worthy efforts to acquaint tourists with points of interest in Lancaster city and county, I deeply regret that the pamphlet