Of the "old thirteen" there were six free States north of her, and six slave States south of her.

She was allied as warmly by ties of friendship and of blood with her Maryland and Virginia neighbors on the one side as with those of New Jersey and New York on the other.

Her political and social connection on both sides were not more intimate than those of a business and commercial character.

As the Union grew in power and increased in membership, Pennsylvania lost nothing of her prestige.

She held to the new States as intimate relations as she held to the old.