Pennsylvania, as being the seventh among the thirteen original States.
1834. The State of Pennsylvania was still sound to the core. She could not be deluded or seduced from her devotion to the Constitution. She was still the keystone of the Union, bank or no bank.—Mr. Lytle in the House of Repr., May 28: Cong. Globe, p. 408.
1840. In this severance and sectioning, what would Pennsylvania, that “arch-stone” State, say?—Mr. Bynum of North Carolina, the same, Jan. 25: id., p. 263, App.
1841. The Federal party have obtained a temporary ascendency in the legislature of the renowned and venerable Keystone State, Pennsylvania.—Mr. McRoberts of Illinois, U.S. Senate, Aug. 13: id., p. 313, App.
1844. I call upon our friends from the Keystone State not to surrender.—Mr. Saunders of North Carolina, House of Repr., Jan. 23: id., p. 86, App.
1844. The old Keystone has never furnished the Union with either President or Vice-President, and it causes her to feel badly.—Mr. Bidlack of Pennsylvania, the same, June 4: id., p. 662, App.
1846. Pennsylvania is the keystone of the great Democratic arch. Break her down, and the arch will crumble to dust and vanish.—Mr. Blanchard of Pa., the same, June 29: id., p. 1006, App.
1847. Mr. Chipman of Michigan had heard it said that the Executive had not paid the attention to Pennsylvania in making his appointments, which the Keystone State was entitled to.—The same, Feb. 8: id., p. 323, App.
1853. Those ever-blessed Relief Notes, which our great sister State, the Keystone, so long paid her debts in; that lovely currency, at once a medium of payment, and a vehicle of disease.—F. Townsend, ‘Fun and Earnest,’ p. 215 (N.Y.).
1861. The “Keystone State” was first, however, in the field.—O. J. Victor, ‘The History … of the Southern Rebellion,’ i. 162.
