1846

Ross, John, 1790-1866

Book

Title: Memorial of John Ross and others [Cherokee Indians]

29th Congress., 1st session. Senate document 331. Bound in modern adhesive-style.

GLC08402

1849/01/25

Gales & Seaton

Newspaper

Title: National intelligencer. [Vol. 50, no. 7191 (January 25, 1849)]

US Coinage, D.C. Slave trade petition, Bill for admission of California.

GLC08430.03

1857/10/14

Newspaper

Title: Daily Illinois state journal. [Vol. 10, no. 75 (October 14, 1857)]

Announcement of a mass convention against the 'National Administration.' The death notice of Washington Park Custis (last member of George Washington's family and father-in-law to R. E. Lee.). Front page includes an add for law firm of (Abraham) Lincoln and Herndon.

GLC08430.07

18 March 1850

Gwin, William M., 1805-1885

Pamphlet

Title: Memorial of the senators and representatives elect from the state of California...

Title continues "asking permission of said State into the Union, together with the credentials of said representatives, and a certified copy of the constitution of said State." House of Representatives Misc. No. 44. Plea signed by William Gwin, John Fremont, G.W. Wright, and Edward Gilbert. Includes a copy of the California state constitution.

GLC08439

1860

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Pamphlet

Title: The barbarism of slavery. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state.

Disbound. Printed by Buell & Blanchard. Senator Sumner declares, "When last I entered into this debate, it became my duty to expose the Crime against Kansas, and to insist upon the immediate admission of that Territory as a State of this Union, with a Constitution forbidding slavery. Time has passed; but the question remains."

GLC08445.01

1856-1857

Pamphlet

Title: State legislatures' resolutions regarding Kansas and slavery [Decimalized .01-.08]

34th Congress House of Representatives Miscellaneous Documents. Contains resolutions passed by the state legislatures of Kentucky, Ohio, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, Iowa, and Michigan. Apparently disbound from a larger volume. Accompanied by wrapper with identification statements written in ink.

GLC08452

4 June 1860

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Pamphlet

Title: The barbarism of slavery. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state. In the United State Senate, June 4, 1860.

Printed by Buell & Blanchard. Sumner calls the Missouri Compromise "the fatal partition between Freedom and Slavery." Uncut. Accompanied by address leaf cut from this pamphlet's original transmission wrapper (GLC08454.02). Edges are brittle and frayed.

GLC08454.01

February 30, 1815

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President [transmitting Treaty of Peace]

Printed by Roger C. Weightman

GLC08455

13-14 February 1850

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, on the subject of slavery in the territories.

Senator Davis, future President of the Confederacy, speech made while a member of Congress. Responds to resolutions introduced by Senator Henry Clay pertaining to the Compromise of 1850. Davis asks, "...is there such incompatibility of interest between the two sections of this country that they cannot profitable live together? Does the agriculture of the South injure the manufactures of the North? On the other hand are they not their life-blood?"

GLC08461

11 May 1855

Bryan, Francis Theodore, 1823-1917

Letter signed

Title: to Mary Williams Shepard

Lieutenant Bryan, a topographical engineer, writes to his mother from the steamer Australia on the Missouri River. Relates visiting Washington, D. C., St. Louis, Missouri, and Indianapolis, among other locations. States that "the people all appear to be very busy in this part of the country ... They are the most active, busy, go-a-head people I ever saw." Comments on the land in Illinois and Indiana, and the rapid settlement of the west. Relates his plans to join Generals Churchill (possibly Sylvester Churchill) and Clarke to inspect Fort Riley, Kansas. Relates his plans for the rest of…

GLC08506

24 December 1852

Peale, Rembrandt (1778-1860)

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Enoch Dean

Peale writes to say he is glad Dean is pleased with the portrait of George Washington he painted (see GLC 9199.01) and states he took great pains to make it an exact copy of the original. He comments, "Your Picture will survive me, and as my mortal remains will perish, my work will live & increase in value - especially in the estimation of those who entertain a just Veneration for the great Original, whose equal among men has not been found."

GLC09119.02

21 December 1860

Greeley & McElrath, 1841-1866

Newspaper

Title: New York semi-weekly tribune. [Vol.19, no. 1625 (December 21, 1860)]

Articles beginning on page four detail the proceedings of the South Carolina secession convention and the adoption of the ordinance of secession. Also prints the results of secession votes in other states like Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, etc. Other news includes the proceedings of Congress, public postings, advertisements. Uncut.

GLC08429.08

9 November 1860

Greeley & McElrath, 1841-1866

Newspaper

Title: New York semi-weekly tribune. [Vol. 16, no. 1613 (November 9, 1860)]

Front page article announces that South Carolina will call a secession convention. Also contains news on the results of the election of 1860 listed by state. On page two there is a reprinted letter sent to Frederick Douglass by a white man stating he is willing to marry Douglass' daughter for $15,000 or $20,000. Douglass' reply refusing the man's offer is also printed. Also printed are excerpts from Framley Parsonage, a book by Anthony Trollope and a sermon by Henry Ward Beecher titled, Religion and Politics. Other news includes local New York news, international news, information on the…

GLC08429.09

7 November 1860

Hawley, Joseph R., 1826-1905

Newspaper

Title: Hartford Evening Press. [Vol. 5, no. 265 (November 7, 1860)]

Eagle banner print of Lincoln's victory in the 1860 election. "Let the eagle scream!" Gives election results by state. Also contains public postings and advertisements.

GLC08429.23

10 September 1831

Ives, William B., fl. 1800-1831

Newspaper

Title: Salem observer. [Vol. 9, no. 37 (September 10, 1831)]

Includes a brief description of the aftermath of Nat Turner's Rebellion: "...the insurgents are all taken and killed, except Nat Turner, the leader, after whom there is a warm pursuit... the troops will be discharged shortly... the number of prisoners amounts to fifty-eight." Sixty whites, and as many as 100 blacks, were killed during the rampage. Turner was capture, tried, convicted and executed. Ives was an abolitionist. Among the other reports: John Quincy Adams's eulogy on James Monroe, and commentary on the upcoming presidential election.

GLC08430.01

1836/12/31

Kimball, Joseph Horace, 1813-1838

Newspaper

Title: Herald of freedom. [Vol. 2, no. 44 (December 31, 1836)]

Anti-slavery, Civil War, Lincoln, War of 1812.

GLC08430.02

1850

Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

Pamphlet

Title: Speeches of Hon. William H. Seward, and Hon. Lewis Cass on the subject of slavery. [...] March 1850.

Original yellow paper cover, uncut.

GLC08435

1845-1892

Header Record

Title: Civil war broadsides, posters and prints [Decimalized .01-.12]

GLC08442

1847/12/23

Maury, Jefferson, 1826-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J.T. Mason, Secretary of the Navy re: reinstatement after drunkenness...

Suspended for drunkenness. Takes an oath of abstinence. Maury entered the U.S. Navy at 15 and passed as midshipman in 1847.

GLC08443

1845/02/05

Eastman, Charles G., fl. 1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. T. Fields re: his poetry with copy of poem [Indian related]

Charles Eastman was a Sioux Indian, Dartmouth graduate and friend of Sitting Bull.

GLC08445.07

1841/03/04 ca.

S. F. J. (Orator)

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Biographical oration on President William Henry Harrison, for election?]

Post-election day eulogy, delivered on the day of WHH's inauguration (?), per p.1. Signed with initials at end "S.F.J."

GLC08445.08

14 December 1858

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Representative John Sherman to Congress]

Partially printed document signed by Chase as Governor of Ohio. Certifies that Sherman was elected as a Representative in the 36th Congress of the United States from the 13th congressional district. Countersigned by A. P. Russell as Secretary of State. With orange seal of the state of Ohio. On blue paper.

GLC08449

1828

Binns, John, 1772-1860

Pamphlet

Title: Monumental Inscriptions.

8 images of fictitious funeral monuments, each to a man executed by Jackson. The first six are for Tennessee militiamen executed in February 1815, after the Battle of New Orleans, for being deserters. The last two are for John Woods, a mutineer Jackson had executed during the Creek War. The imagined tombstones bear inscriptions detailing how each was a good man and soldier, and regardless of this, was "By the Orders of General Andrew Jackson, Shot to Death." Each monument was supposedly erected on 4 July, 1828. One reminds the reader "Let not the splendor of Military renown Blot out…

GLC08460

1 July 1842

McKerny, John, fl. 1842

Document signed

Title: [Permission for slaves to work for their own profit]

Legal document permitting his two slaves, Samuel and Andrew, to work for themselves or any other person on Saturdays.

GLC08465

25 January 1837

Taylor, E. W., fl. 1837

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jeremiah Wilbur

Taylor, a Northerner who had moved to South Carolina and became a slave owner, explains his views on slavery and his willingness to fight for it. "If these matters are going to be carried so far as to the separation of the Union and blood must be spilt I fight for the South, & feel as though I could plunge the dagger to the heart almost of a brother in such a glorious cause. It would be for Liberty, Liberty." Believes abolitionists should leave well enough alone or the result might be the dissolution of the Union. Accuses abolitionists of being hypocrites and relays the story of a…

GLC08476