Self-Paced Courses: Explore American history with top historians at your own time and pace!
15 April 1873
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885)
Pardon of Joseph Woodyard, convicted of failing to cancel revenue stamps on empty spirit-casks.
(c/s Hamilton Fish)
GLC03634
[ 10 December 1807 ]
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
to NJ Legislature re: domestic & foreign affairs, gratitude [incomplete]
Dating from Bergh, Collected Writings of TJ, v. 16: 294-96. The last two paragraphs are lacking from this document. Discusses the Embargo Act (obliquely).
GLC03642
1824
Marshall, John (1755-1835)
Supreme Court Opinion, Osborn et al. v. the Bank of the U.S.
The case upheld the primacy of Federal law over the states. Not in Rhodes' calendar of Marshall's papers (1969). Compare: writings (1839) 315-42, Dillon, Complete Constitutional Decisions of Marshall, (1903) 466-511, and other sources.
GLC03653
9 September 1786
Washington, George (1732-1799)
to John Francis Mercer
Washington replies to a letter from Mercer, noting that he would have replied sooner, but he had a fever. Expresses his plan to never purchase another slave, and his wish that slavery be abolished by "slow, sure & imperceptible degrees." Discusses...
GLC03705
29 December 1777
to New Hampshire re: asking for supplies, call to arms & poor state of army
Written in the hand of Robert Hanson Harrison. Washington appeals for clothing and supplies for his troops. Copies of this letter went to every state. Washington writes in part: "We had in Camp on the 23rd Instt. by a field report then taken, not...
GLC03706
Showing results 1 - 5