Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Old Time Notes of Pennsylvania, Vol. 1: A Connected and Chronological Record of the Commercial, Industrial and Educational Advancement of Pennsylvania, and the Inner History of All Political Movements Since the Adoption of the Constitution of 1838
The aim of these chapters is to present to the people of Penn sylvania, who are so justly proud of their great Commonwealth, a connected chronological story of the advancement of our great State since the adoption of the reform Constitution in 1838, presenting with absolute candor the many and earnest struggles made for advancement beginning more than half a century ago, and portraying the leading actors as they rose and fell in political con?icts, with their capabilities and methods, giving to the student of to-day in a single publication the inner history of Pennsylvania politics, and the desperate battles fought for the advancement that makes our grand Commonwealth to-day the richest and most progressive of all the States of the Union.
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