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5 May 1866
Foster, Lafayette Sabine, 1806-1880
to Senor Abraham L. Dovale
Co-signed by Schuyler Colfax as Speaker of the House. Invitation to a memorial ceremony for Abraham Lincoln to be held at the Hall of the House.
GLC08450
1856-1857
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....
GLC08452
1814/10/10
Madison, James, 1751-1836
Message from the President [re: conditions for peace]
Printed by C. Weightman
GLC08453
4 June 1860
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
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...
GLC08454.01
February 30, 1815
Message from the President [transmitting Treaty of Peace]
Printed by Roger C. Weightman
GLC08455
13-14 February 1850
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
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...
GLC08461
19 April 1862
Adair, George Washington, 1823-1899
Southern confederacy [Vol. 3, no. 57 (April 19, 1863)]
Published by Adair and J. Henry Smith (1820-1897). B.C. Smith is the associate editor. Tag line below masthead says "The Public Good Before Private Advantage." Masthead vignette depicts an industrialized Southern Confederacy. Announces the beginning...
GLC08492
2 January 1863
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
General Orders no. 1: Emancipation Proclamation
Army printing of the final version of the Emancipation Proclamation, three pages, accompanied by General Orders no. 7, 10, 22, 24, 30 and 35. This is the first six pages of a compilation of General Orders for 1863. Printed in 1864.
GLC08525
October 1808
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
[Thomas Jefferson's defense of the Embargo Act of 1807]
Sent to the town clerk, Nathaniel C. Allen. Circular sent in response to criticisms of the Embargo Act of 1807 by people in the town of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Explains and defends the Embargo Act and rejects the call for a special convening...
GLC00016
1945
Boyd, Julien P. (fl. 1945)
"The Declaration of Independence"
Thomas Jefferson drafts.
GLC00020.02
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