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01 July 1881
Garfield, James A. (James Abram) (1831-1881)
Inaugural Address of James A. Garfield / Mar. 4, 1881 [inscribed to Mrs. Blaine]
Inscribed to Mrs. Blaine by Garfield the day before he was shot by Guiteau.
GLC03558
1841
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)
Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States : in the case of the United States, appellants, vs. Cinque, and others,...
... (title continues) Africans, captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut. Gedney, delivered on the 24th of February and 1st of March, 1841: with a review of the case of the Antelope, reported in the 10th, 11th, and 12th volumes of Wheaton's Reports...
GLC03809
1821
Report upon weights and measures.
An attempt to synthesize history, philosophy and physics into a coherent whole that illuminates the nature of human relations. Recommends the adoption of the metric system, as a blessing that will lead to "the improvement of the physical, moral and...
GLC04045
1861
H.H. Lloyd & Co.
Lloyd's new political chart, 1861
Full title: "Lloyd's New Political Chart, 1861. With a Map of the United States, Showing the Free States, Border Slave States, Cotton States, and Territories, in Different Colors." Compiled and published by H.H. Lloyd & Co.'s Agents' General Depot...
GLC04243
1 March 1900
Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)
The Future of the American Negro
Published by Small, Maynard & Company in 1899. Inscribed in 1900 on the inner front cover to Almira Thornton Goff, wife of Lyman B. Goff, an active Republican and head of the Union Wadding Company of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Includes a photograph...
GLC04297.01
29 December 1909
Up from slavery: an autobiography
Published by Doubleday, Page & Company. Signed in Tuskegee, Alabama. Inscribed to George B. Utley, a librarian. Contains articles describing events in Washington's life, including his childhood as a slave in Virginia, his struggle to acquire an...
GLC04327
1857
Howard, Benjamin C. (Benjamin Chew) (1791-1872)
Report of cases argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States. December term, 1856.
Published by William M. Morrison and Company. Includes report on Dred Scott v. Sandford.
GLC04394
1831
Warner, Samuel (fl. 1831)
Authentic and impartial narrative of the tragical scene which was witnessed in Southampton County (Virginia) on Monday the 22d of August last...
(title continues)... when fifty-five of its inhabitants (mostly women and children) were inhumanly massacred by the blacks! Communicated by those who were eye witnesses of the bloody scene, and confirmed by the confessions of several of the blacks...
GLC04548
1854
Smith, Gerrit (1797-1874)
Speeches of Gerrits Smith. In Congress, 1853-'4.
Published by Buell and Blanchard. Includes speeches by Smith on war, the homestead bill, the Nebraska bill, the Pacific Railroad, the postal system, the reciprocity treaty, and the sale of intoxicating drinks in Washington, D.C., among other topics...
GLC04717.02
1863-1864
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
[General orders, 1863, no. 1-400 (3 vols), and 1864 no. 1-380 (3 vols)]
Bound copies of general orders for 1863 and 1864 printed by the Government Printing Office. Includes Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (1863 #1), "Regulations for the care of field works, and the government of their garrisons" (1863 #45), Lincoln...
GLC05061
1864
United States. Congress (38th, 1st session : 1864)
[House report no. 65 regarding the Fort Pillow massacre and no. 67 regarding returned prisoners of war]
Contains a full report of the April 1864 battle at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, based on an investigation of the battle itself, as well as the operations of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest "and his command immediately preceding and subsequent...
GLC05080.06
19 January 1854
Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland) (1808-1873)
Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress, to the people of the United States. Shall slavery be permitted in Nebraska?
Printed by Tower's Printers. Uncut. Issued by Congressmen Chase, Charles Sumner, Joshua R. Giddings, Edward Wade, Gerrit Smith, and Alexander De Witt. "Whatever apologies may be offered for the toleration of slavery in the States, none can be...
GLC05116.03
15 February 1854
Fenton, Reuben Eaton (1819-1885)
Speech of Hon. R. E. Fenton of New York on Democratic tests, and the Nebraska Bill.
Printed at the Congressional Globe Office. Disbound. Representative Fenton states, "...the bill under consideration, although negative in its character, is affirmative in its character for the spread of slavery. A principle, sir, I cannot sustain...
GLC05116.04
6 April 1854
No slavery in Nebraska: no slavery in the nation: slavery an outlaw. Speech of Gerrit Smith, on the Nebraska Bill.
Representative Smith states, "I am opposed to the bill for organizing the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas, which has come to us from the Senate, because, in the first place, it insults colored men, and the Maker of all men, by limiting suffrage to...
GLC05116.06
18 May 1854
Peckham, Rufus Wheeler (1838-1909)
Speech of Mr. Peckham, of New York, on the Kansas and Nebraska question.
Printed by John T. and Lem. Towers. Representative Peckham states, "... after thoroughly examining this bill, its history and progress, and the legislation pertaining to it, I cannot give it my support, believing that it contains none of the...
GLC05116.07
circa 1854
Gillette, Francis (1807-1879)
Speech of Mr. Gillette
Location inferred from content. A note on last page indicates this document was created after 24 May 1854. In response to the question, "Are you willing that the black man shall participate, equally with the white man, in all the social and...
GLC05116.08
18 February 1856
Wilson, Henry (1812-1875)
The state of affairs in Kansas. Speech of Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts.
Published by the Republican Association of the District of Columbia. Third edition, Buell & Blanchard, printers. Uncut.
GLC05116.09
12 March 1856
Collamer, Jacob (1791-1865)
Kansas affairs in the Senate. Minority report of the Senate committee on territories. Made March 12, 1856, by Judge Collamer, of Vermont.
Published by Buell & Blanchard. Collamer explores the issue of Kansas: "A Territory of our Government is now convulsed with violence and discord, and the whole family of our nation is in a state of excitement and anxiety. The national executive...
GLC05116.10
3 April 1856- 4 April 1856
Speech of Hon. Jacob Collamer of Vermont, on affairs in Kansas. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 3 and 4, 1856.
Printed at the Congressional Globe Office. Regarding Kansas, Senator Collamer states, "...I am not prepared at this moment to go at length into my reasons for believing as I do, that the best, the shortest, and the most quiet way is to admit that...
GLC05116.11
9 April 1856
Seward, William Henry (1801-1872)
Speech of Hon. William H. Seward for the immediate admission of Kansas into the Union; delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 9, 1856.
Printed at the Congressional Globe Office. Signed by J. I. Werner on cover. Seward states, "I will grant, for the sake of the argument, that with Federal battalions you can carry slavery into Kansas, and maintain it there. Are you quite confident...
GLC05116.12
19 May 1856
Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)
Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts. In the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856.
Sumner's speech was delivered in Washington, D.C. and published by the New York Tribune in New York City. Last page advertises and lists prices for different issues of the Tribune. Sumner declares, "...I fearlessly assert that the wrongs of much...
GLC05116.13
The Crime Against Kansas. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts. In the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856.
Sumner's speech was delivered in Washington, D.C. and published by the New York Tribune in New York City. Contains the stamp of T. B. Pugh, bookseller, on the upper left corner of front cover. Contains water stains.
GLC05116.14
21 June 1856
Colfax, Schuyler (1823-1885)
The "Laws" of Kansas. Speech of the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana.
Colfax, a United States Representative from Indiana, writes "The only relief possible, if Kansas is not promptly admitted as a State, which I hope may be effected, is in a change of the Administration and of the party that so recklessly misrules the...
GLC05116.15
1 July 1856
Howard, William Alanson (1813-1880)
Subduing freedom in Kansas. Report of the Congressional Committee, presented in the House of Representatives on Tuesday, July 1, 1856.
Presented in the House of Representatives, published in New York by the Tribune Office. Howard and Sherman report the committee's findings on Kansas's struggle for admission to the Union: "It cannot be doubted that if its condition as a free...
GLC05116.16
6 August 1856
Sage, Russell (1816-1906)
Speech of Hon. Russell Sage, of New-York, on the profession and acts of the President of the United States; the repeal of the Missouri Compromise...
(title continues)... the outrages in Kansas; and the sectional influence and aggressions of the slave power. Delivered in the House of Representatives; published by Weed, Parsons & Co. in Albany, New York. Representative Sage quotes Henry Clay: " '...
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