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31 December 1864
Williston, Leander A. (fl. 1864-)
Quarterly Return of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores
Part One: Artillery, Small Arms, Ammunition and other Ordnance Stores. Arranged to cover all the stores at Fort Picketts.
GLC02198.30
31 March 1865
GLC02198.31
1789
Morse, Jedediah
The American Geography / By Jedediah Morse
8vo. Signed on titlepage by George Washington with his engraved heraldic bookplate. Contemporary calf. With two fold-out engraved maps, as issued. Athenaeum Catalog (1897) p. 506 (item 161 in the GW's estate inventory), mentions that it was once...
GLC00176
1823-1824
U.S. Congress. 18th
A list of reports to be made to the House of Representatives at the first session of the eighteenth Congress by the executive departments
Book of reports and state papers sent to the 1st session of the 18th Congress. Each report or group of papers is paginated separately. Contains first printing of Monroe Doctrine (report #2), which is 15 pages long. Given to Congress on 2 December...
GLC00237
1855
Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)
The Slave Oligarchy and its usurpations. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, November 2, 1855, in Faneuil Hall, Boston.
First edition. Printed by Buell & Blanchard, Printers, Washington, D.C. Sumner urges voters, "Are you for Freedom, or are you for Slavery? ... Above all other questions, whether national or local, it now lifts itself, directly into the path of...
GLC00267.001
1856
Hunter, R. M. T. (Robert Mercer Taliaferro) (1809-1887)
Speech of Hon. Robert M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, on the resolutions of the Massachusetts legislature concerning the assault on Mr. Sumner.
Signed by Hunter on a a piece of paper pasted to the title page. Delivered in the senate of the United States, 24 June 1856. Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, Washington, D.C. Hunter was a senator from Virginia.
GLC00267.003
Stewart, James Augustus (1808-1879)
Speech of Hon. James A. Stewart, of Maryland, on African slavery, its status-- natural, moral, social, legal, and constitutional...
Title continues, "...and the origin, progress, present condition, and future destiny of the United States, considered in connection with African slavery as a part of its social system; with the bearings of that institution upon the interests of all...
GLC00267.004
1858
Weston, George M. (George Melville) (1816-1887)
The Progress of slavery in the United States.
Describes the past progress of slavery and considers circumstances that will control the slavery movement in the future. Argues that the growing slave population in the U.S. was an intended result of the territorial expansion of slavery dictated by...
GLC00267.005
1832
United States. Census Office. 5th census (1830)
Abstract of the returns of the fifth census, showing the number of free people, the number of slaves...
Title continues "...the federal or representative number, and the aggregate of each county of each state of the United States." 22nd Congress, 1st session, Doc no. 263. Printed by Duff Green, Washington, D.C.
GLC00267.008
1862
Kennedy, J. C. G. (Joseph Camp Griffith) (1813-1887)
Preliminary report on the eighth census. 1860.
37th Congress, 2nd session (1861-1862), House Executive Document No. 116. Index included in first pages. Inscribed in pencil on inner front cover to C. S. Van Wyck from C. H. Van Wyck. Charles Henry Van Wyck was a New York Congressman, later a...
GLC00267.009
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