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

1828-1865

Header Record

Title: Presidential items Fremont and Jackson; Lincoln mourning ribbon [decimalized]

GLC08500

1828

Lee, Henry, 1787-1837

Pamphlet

Title: A Vindication of the character and public services of Andrew Jackson.

(title continues) In reply to the Richmond Address, signed by Chapman Johnson, and to other electioneering calumnies. Written during the Presidential campaign of 1828. Asserting that "no man has rendered more important services to his country, than Andrew Jackson." Defends Jackson against various opponents and assertions, and calls the attacks on him "prodigious errors." Title page notes that the pamphlet is attributed to Henry Lee, though at the end of the pamphlet the name signed is simply "Jefferson." Originally published in the Nashville Republican. Printed by True and Greene.…

GLC08500.01

1824/03/12

Cartwright, John, fl. 1824

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Q. Adams re: requesting books be sent to American leaders

Addressed to John Adams Secretary of the American Legation, but really John Quincy. Requests books for Jefferson, Adams (Senior), Monroe, Harvard University and the University of Virginia.

GLC08566

1830

Bowen, Henry, 1794-1874

Broadside

Title: A mirror for the intemperate

Temperance broadside with poems and extracts such as "Ode to Rum" and "Set Down that Glass." Also includes some illustrations. Printed on cloth for Nathaniel Boynton by Henry Bowen's Chemical Print. Mounted on cloth covered board; dimensions include mounting.

GLC08600

1819-1840

Header Record

Title: Presidential campaign biographies [decimalized]

GLC08607

1819

Waldro, S. Putnam, fl. 1819

Book

Title: The Tour of James Monroe, President....

Describes Madison's tour in the northern and eastern states in 1817, his tour in 1818 and a brief biographical sketch. Printed by Silas Andrus.

GLC08607.03

1836

Grimke, Angelina E., 1805-1879

Pamphlet

Title: Appeal to the Christian women of the south

Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society. Among other arguments, Grimke denounces Biblical justifications of slavery. Loosely bound with string.

GLC08642

28 April 1824

Newspaper

Title: Columbia centinel. [No. 4179 (April 28 1824)]

Discusses the tariff, the disestablishment of religion in Massachusetts, and divorce.

GLC08725.03

6 December 1823

Fry, William, 1777-1855

Newspaper

Title: National gazette. [Vol. IV, no. 434 (December 6, 1823)]

Part of a signature cut off at masthead appears to be "J. M. Sanders." The entire front page and part of the second page is taken up with the President James Monroe's message to Congress that announced the Monroe Doctrine, which was designed to keep European powers from interfering in the Western Hemisphere. The Gazette included a positive editorial on the speech as well. An article says the two houses of Congress ordered a combined total of 9,000 copies of Monroe's speech printed. An article reports on the condition of prisons in Philadelphia. Other articles include: a report on problems of…

GLC08794

5-12 June 1824

Newspaper

Title: Niles' weekly register. [Vol. 2, no. 14-15 (June 5-12, 1824)]

Two issues. Convention with Great Britain for the suppression of the slave trade printed on p. 226 ff.

GLC08813

6 December 1823

Newspaper

Title: National gazette and literary register. [Vol. 4, no. 434 (December 6, 1823)]

Monroe Doctrine

GLC08814

1833

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Magazine

Title: The Abolitionist

Volume 1, numbers 1 - 11 of a monthly magazine advocating the abolition of slavery. The eleven issues are bound together in one book. Includes articles from numerous sources on emancipation, colonization and many other evangelical and slavery related subjects. Also includes excerpts from John Quincy Adams' speeches. Garrison was the principal editor of the magazine. Published by the New England Anti-Slavery Society.

GLC08844

May 1, 1822

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Letter signed

Title: to House of Representatives

Recommends Congress grant a request by the government of Norway that the United States provide reciprocity of a policy reducing port duties and cargo unlading fees for U.S. vessels using Norwegian harbors. Written a year before the Monroe Doctrine.

GLC01107

March 6, 1824

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John D. Godman

Discusses the upcoming presidential election. Speculates on the contest between himself, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and William H. Crawford. Thinks it certain that the election will be decided in the House of Representatives (it was). Between himself and Crawford, he guesses that whoever wins New York will be considered by the House along with Adams and Jackson. Predicts that if he makes to the House, he will win; otherwise he suspects Adams will win. Comments on other states and possible outcomes. Discusses how Godman and his other political supporters in Philadelphia can…

GLC01028

May 20, 1824

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Quincy Adams

Written by Monroe as President to an unnamed recipient. The recipient is likely John Quincy Adams, however; this is inferred based on the content and on information in John Quincy Adams diary, discussing his meeting with Monroe on this topic on this day. Monroe says he is afraid that the treaty with Great Britain in which slave trading would be equated to piracy would be rejected. Says "the rejection of this convention, would in my opinion, produce very serious mischief." Claims that he heard "some of our estimable friends to the South" are against the treaty, but that he doesn't know why.…

GLC00969

1829-1835

Biddle, Nicholas, 1786-1844

Header Record

Title: Letters to William B. Rochester regarding establishment & closing of the Bank of United States [decimalized .001-.040]

Forty letters written as President of the Bank of the United States to William B. Rochester, who intended to establish a new branch of the bank in Buffalo, New York. Letters are regarding the re-chartering of the Bank of the United States as Biddle establishes a branch of the bank in Buffalo, New York, changes in policy and tightening of credit as President Jackson's opposition to the Bank is felt, and finally, the closing of the Bank after the expiration of its charter. Arranged chronologically.

GLC00976

June 24, 1825

Tyler, John, 1790-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Curtis

Discusses a carriage he is selling to Curtis. States that he will accept a mule Curtis has as partial payment. Mentions that his wife Letitia's health is still poor.

GLC00988

March 27, 1820

Williams, Eleazer, 1787-1858

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jasper Parish

Writes to Parish, an interpreter and Indian agent to the Six Nations, about a proposal to remove the Iroquois tribes of upstate New York to the Old Northwest. Discusses Secretary of War John C. Calhoun's intention to arrange for the move, which includes transferring land now controlled by other groups in the Northwest to the Six Nations. Indicates that the U.S. Government expects Parish's cooperation and will depend on his influence. Williams was a mixed blood Indian who later claimed to be the lost French Dauphin.

GLC00923

March 11, 1823

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Abner Lawson Duncan

Asks Duncan to introduce Glossel to "the citizens of New Orleans, and particularly those who shared with me the dangers of the defense of New Orleans," and specifically Major Grimes. Major Glossel, Jackson's aide-de-camp, is passing through New Orleans, on his way to meet General Gaines.

GLC01108

September 26, 1818

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Caesar Augustus Rodney

re: revolutions in South America, mentions memories of James Otis. Rodney had just returned from South America

GLC00922

1 January 1818

Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819

Autograph document signed

Title: [Petition to U.S. Senate]

Petition of representation for Frothingham stating that he served in the United States army during the Revolutionary War as "Sergeant in Capt Chadwick's Company in 1775," then as Sergeant in Colonel Henry Knox's Regiment of Artillery, and finally as Principal Field Commissary of Military Stores of the American Army" until the end of the war. States he has not received the same commutation of land as other officers of the same line received. Requests that he be reimbursed accordingly.

GLC01450.065.03

28 October 1817

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of David B. Mitchell as Commissioner of the United States]

Countersigned by John Quincy Adams as Secretary of State. Appoints Mitchell a commissioner to negotiate with the Creek Nation of Indians in Georgia.

GLC01255

May 19, 1826

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles F. Mercer

Acknowledges letter from Mercer by Mr. Hawkins. States he is satisfied with the work of the Committee of Claims in the House of Representatives on his refund requests from his time overseas. Discusses possible publication of the documents pertaining to his claims. In the postscript he qualifies his desperate financial state: "In fact I have been plac'd in a situation, fraught with so many difficulties & delicacies, that I have not known how to act in it." Recipient inferred from handwriting of docket, which is the same as a docket on GLC 1134, a letter from Monroe to Mercer. Written two…

GLC01192

July 23, 1817

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Madison

Regarding the establishment of the University of Virginia, Jefferson writes to set a meeting for handling donations to "our subscription paper" and discusses the details of arranging a meeting. Among those also contacted for the meeting were Joseph C. Cabell, General John H. Cocke, and a Mr. Watson.

GLC01198