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1 THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME CIX THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA 1300 LOCUST STREET, PHILADELPHIA

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3 ARTICLES CONTENTS Page Industrial Unionism and Labor Movement Culture in Depression-Era Philadelphia Elizabeth Fones-Wolf 3 He That Would Thrive Must Ask His Wife: Franklin's Anthony Afterwit Letter Gary E. Baker 27 The 1807 Plan for An Illustrated Edition of Lewis and Clark George Ehrlich 43 The Wits and Poets Of Pennsylvania: New Light On The Rise Of Belles Lettres In Provincial Pennsylvania, David S. Shields 99 William Franklin: His Father's Son Sheila L. Skemp 145 The Career Of Colonel Pluck: Folk Drama and Popular Protest In Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia Susan G. Davis 179 Notes Between Two Worlds: The Diary of Roger Lansbury, 2nd Battalion, Fifth Marines Daniel F. Ring, ed. 257 "Prophesies and Revelations": German Cabbalists in Early Pennsylvania Elizabeth W. Fisher 299 Women's Crime and Criminal Administration in Pennsylvania, G. S. Rowe 335 Nebraska, Nativism, and Rum: The Failure of Fusion in Pennsylvania, 1854 William E. Gienapp 425 The Demise of the Pennsylvania American Party, James L. Huston 473 The Democrats' Loss of Pennsylvania In 1858 Bruce Collins 499 The Impact of the Fugitive Slave Law on Harrisburg: A Case Study Gerald G. Eggert 537 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: A Manufacturer's Apprenticeship: The Journal of Charles Doak, Philip Scranton 59 A Graphic Case Of Transatlantic Republicanism Sidney Hart 203 Philadelphia Bootlegging and The Report Of The Special August Grand Jury Mark H. Haller 215 A Note on the Population of Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia Sharon W. Salinger Charles Wetherell 369 August Edouart: A Quaker Album of American and English Duplicate Silhouettes, Helen Laughon Neville Laughon 387 A Pennsylvanian Visits the Richmond Slave Market Gerald G. Eggert 571 ESSAY REVIEW Constance B. Schulz 69 BOOK REVIEWS 81, 235, 399, 577 INDEX 599

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5 THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA OFFICERS President JOHN W. ECKMAN HARVEY BARTLE III Vice-Presidents CAROLINE ROBBINS Secretary HOWARD H. LEWIS Treasurer WM. RICHARD GORDON Counsel HENRY N. PLATT CAROL SOFFA BALDRIDGE E. DIGBY BALTZELL GEORGE E. BARTOL, III MRS. T. WISTAR BROWN MAURICE C. CLIFFORD GEORGE W. CONNELL MRS. JOHN T. DORRANCE MRS. KENNETH GEMMILL WILLIAM L. GRALA MRS. F. OTTO HAAS Councilors DAVID W. MAXEY FRANK C. P. MCGLINN MRS. SAM MCKEEL BERTRAM L. O'NEILL FRANK E. REED MRS. THORNE SPARKMAN, JR. S. ROBERT TEITELMAN RUSSELL F. WEIGLEY HARRISON M. WRIGHT

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7 STAFF J. WILLIAM FROST, Editor MORRIS J. VOGEL, Book Review Editor CARLA MULFORD, Assistant Editor MELISSA GREENWALD, Editorial Assistant NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT, Director Emeritus PETER J. PARKER, Director JUNE V. PEGGS, Assistant to the Director Library DAVID FRASER, Librarian GLENYS A. WALDMAN, Associate Librarian MAXINE BRENNAN RACHEL DACH NANCY J. HALLI, Andrew Mellon Bibliographer CAROLYN JONES RONALD MEDFORD JANIS PUGH DANIEL ROLPH WALDO A.R. TULK, Curator of Printed Books Manuscripts and Archives Department LINDA STANLEY, Curator AMY HARDIN LEE MEININGER THERESA SNYDER ANNE-MARIE T. SCHAAF MICHELE F. VOGE Treasurer's Office WAYNE KELLY, Assistant to the Treasurer IRMGARD MAXWELL Development Office GAINOR B. DAVIS, Associate Director for Administration PATRICIA KURFUERST JOANNA GILBRIDE, Director of Marketing and Development BERYL L. ROSENSTOCK JODELLE BRYAN STACY TARAGNA ALEXANDRA KNOX Education Department CYNTHIA J. LITTLE, Director of Education JACQUELINE HAWKINS DEBORAH PROSSER Museum Department ELIZABETH J. JARVIS, Curator DAVID CASSEDY Conservation Department ROLF KAT, Conservator William Penn Papers MARY MAPLES DUNN, Editor RICHARD S. DUNN, Editor ALISON DUNCAN HIRSCH Administration SALVATORE MASSARE, Building Superintendant EARNEST L. MEDFORD, Assistant Superintendant ROBERT J. HODGES, ALBERT RIDEWOOD, JACQUELINE SCOTT, Maintenance CRAIG W. HORLE JOY WILTENBURG MARIANNE S. WOKECK ROBERT GRANT, Guard Louis W. MEEHAN, Photography VIRGINIA WETTER, Typesetting

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9 THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY JANUARY 1985 INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM AND LABOR MOVEMENT CULTURE IN DEPRESSION-ERA PHILADELPHIA Elizabeth Fones-Wolf 3 HE THAT WOULD THRIVE MUST ASK HIS WIFE: FRANKLIN'S ANTHONY AFTERWIT LETTER Gary E. Baker 27 THE 1807 PLAN FOR AN ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF LEWIS AND CLARK George Ehrlich 43 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: A MANUFACTURER'S APPRENTICESHIP: THE JOURNAL OF CHARLES DOAK Philip Scranton 59 ESSAY REVIEW Constance B. Schulz 69 BOOK REVIEWS 81 PUBLISHED SINCE 1877 BY THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA VOLUME CVIV NUMBER 1

10 BOOK REVIEWS BOYD and LESTER, EDS., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 20, 1 April 1791 to 4 August 1791, ADAMS and LESTER, EDS., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, second series, Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels, "The Philosophy of Jesus" and "The Life and Morals of Jesus," by Constance B. Schulz. 69 S T I C K, Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America, by Craig Horle. 81 WEBB, 1676: The End of American Independence, by Lisa Wilson Waciega. 82 JENNINGS, The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies from Its Beginnings to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744, by Daniel K. Richter. 84 CARP, TO Starve the Army at Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, , by Lawrence Delbert Cress. 86 ONUF, The Origins of the Federal Republic: Jurisdictional Controversies in the United States, , by Herman Belz. 8 8 LOWERY, James Barbour, A Jeffersonian Republican, BIRKNER, Samuel L. Southard: Jeffersonian Whig, by Kathryn R. Malone. 89 ROSENZWEIG, Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, , by Ken Fones-Wolf. 91 GEMMILL, E.L. The Bread Box Papers: A Biography of Elizabeth Chapman Lawrence, by Carla Mulford. 93 THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY is published each quarter in January, April, July and October by THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENN- SYLVANIA, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA Yearly subscription, $15.00; single numbers $3.75. Communications should be addressed to the Editor. The Editor does not assume responsibility for statements of fact or of opinion made by contributors. Copyright, 1985, by The Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Second class postage paid at Philadelphia, PA. (ISSN ).

11 THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY VOLUME CVIV January 1985 NO. I Editorial Advisory Committee Chairman PETER J. PARKER pro tempore IRA V. BROWN Pennsylvania State University THOMAS C. COCHRAN Historical Society of Pennsylvania RICHARD S. DUNN Historical Society of Pennsylvania STANLEY N. KATZ Princeton University PHILIP S. KLEIN Pennsylvania State University EMMA LAPSANSKY Temple University J.A. LEO LEMAY University of Delaware JOHN J. MC CUSKER University of Maryland CAROLINE ROBBINS Historical Society of Pennsylvania RUSSELL F. WEIGLEY Temple University RICHMOND WILLIAMS Eleutherian Mills W. ROSS YATES Lehigh University LARZER ZIFF Johns Hopkins University Editor J. WILLIAM FROST Book Review Editor MORRIS J. VOGEL Assistant Editor CARLA MULFORD

12 Contributors ELIZABETH FONES- WOLF, now a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, served for seven years as an editor of the Samuel Gompers Papers. Her dissertation will be a social history of musicians. GARY E. BAKER, who has been a Winterthur Fellow in Early American Culture at the University of Delaware, is Assistant Curator of Glass at the Chrysler Museum. He is the author of Sullivan's Universe: The Art of Patrick J. Sullivan, Self-Taught West Virginia Painter. GEORGE EHRLICH, Professor of Art History at University of Missouri-Kansas City, has published articles on Afro-American art, Robert Henri, the professionalization of architecture, and George Caleb Bingham, and a book entitled Kansas City, Missouri: An Architectural History. PHILIP SCRANTON, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University, Camden, recently published Proprietary Capitalism, a study of the nineteenth-century textile industry in Philadelphia. CONSTANCE B. SCHULZ is on the faculty of Georgetown University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati and has been an assistant editor of the Booker T. Washington Papers. THIS ISSUE WAS SET IN TYPE AT THE SOCIETY BY VIRGINIA WETTER ON A MER- GENTHALER LINOTERM. THIS EQUIPMENT WAS PURCHASED WITH FUNDS GIVEN BY THE SAMUEL S. FELS FOUNDATION. THIS GRANT WAS TO AID SCHOLARLY PUBLI- CATION BY THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA, AND THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA.