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1869
Butler, John George (1826-1909)
Courageous Thankfulness
A sermon given on the twentieth pastoral anniversary of St. Paul's Church in Washington D.C., July 4, 1869. Inscribed "compliments of" J. Geo. Butler on the front cover.
GLC01265.37
1972
Macaulay, Catharine (1731-1791)
An address to the people of England, Ireland, and Scotland, on the present important crisis of affairs [Reprinted in "English defenders of American freedoms, 1774-1778"]
See the Macaulay papers, GLC 1784.01-1800.04.
Vigorous, inflammatory attack on government of George III. Alerts people of Ireland, Scotland, and England to dangers of legislation without representation and parliamentary oppression. Solutions...
GLC01784.02
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.
Given in the Senate, 4 June 1860. Condemns slavery as barbaric and criticizes various pro-slavery arguments, including that slavery was not upheld by the United States Constitution. Published by Thaddeus Hyatt, Washington, D.C. Printed as the clergy...
GLC02095.21
1856
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
27 May 1840
Society of Friends
Memorial of the Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, praying the adoption of measures for the suppression of the African slavetrade.
Message to Congress emphasizing the "horror and brutality of the middle passage." The memorial states that the trade is being "prosecuted to a greater extent, and in a manner more destructive to its victims, than it ever was before." 26 Congress...
GLC00267.036
1850
Gurley, Ralph Randolph (1797-1872)
Report of the Secretary of State communicating the report of the Rev. R. R. Gurley, who was recently sent out by the government...
(title continues)... to obtain information in respect to Liberia. Pamphlet bound as a book. With introductory note by Daniel Webster, Secretary of State 1850-1852. 31st Congress, 1st session, Senate Executive Document No. 75. Contains a...
GLC00267.054
1857
Helper, Hinton Rowan (1829-1906)
The Impending crisis of the South: How to meet it
First edition. Signed as presented by Samuel A. Winsor. Published by the Burkick Brothers, New York. Bookplate removed. In 1857, Hinton Rowan Helper, the son of a western North Carolina farmer, published one of the most politically influential...
GLC00267.074
14 May 1888
Stewart, William Morris (1827-1909)
[Claims of the state of Nevada]
Report submitted by William Stewart, Senator from Nevada and a member of the Committee on Military Affairs, to the Senate as a whole. Requests repayment of money spent during the Civil War by the territorial government of Nevada. Says most of the...
GLC00267.242
1861
Conway, Moncure Daniel (1832-1907)
The Rejected stone: or insurrection vs. resurrection in America. By a native of Virginia
Conway's authorship marked as "By a Native of Virginia." Published by Walker, Wise, and Company at 245 Washington Street. Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co. First edition. A plea for emancipation divided into 19 chapters. Original red printed...
GLC00267.248
1862
The Golden Hour.
Signed by Julia Piatt, 29 July 1862, Washington, D.C. Conway was an American author and preacher, and ardent abolitionist. He lectured in England during the Civil War in the interests of the North. The Golden Hour is a plea for the emancipation of...
GLC00267.249
1800
Paine, Thomas
An Eulogy on the life of General George Washington....
Signed on half title by Paine (?). Evans 38178
GLC00420
Ruffin, Edmund (1794-1865)
The political economy of slavery
First edition of Ruffin's pro-slavery pamphlet, signed by Andrew Johnson. Johnson writes on the cover "Send this to my room with my mail." The pamphlet was published in 1857, Johnson most likely signed it in 1858. Untrimmed edges. Lacking wrappers...
GLC00774
1871
Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
Democratic Vistas
First edition inscribed to Matthew Brady, the Civil War photographer. In this essay, Whitman discusses the theory of democracy and its possibilities in America after the Civil War. He criticizes America for its unrestrained wealth, materialism, and...
GLC00865
1898
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
George Washington
Inscription regarding Washington's greatness dated Princeton, New Jersey, 2 November 1905. Illustrated by Pyle, Fenn, et al. Deckle edges.
GLC02551.01
1794
Stiles, Ezra
A history of three of the judges of King Charles I: Major-General Whalley, Major-General Goffe, and Colonel Dixwell. . .[Inscribed by William Ellery].
Title continues: "who, at the Restoration, 1660, fled to America, and were secreted and concealed, in Massachusetts and Connecticut, for near thirty years; with an account of Mr. Theophilus Whale, of Narragansett, supposed to have been also one of...
GLC00111
1799
Adams, Hannah (1755-1831)
Summary history of New-England
Title continues: "from the First Settlement at Plymouth, to the acceptance of the Federal Constitution. Comprehending a General Sketch of the American War." First edition, printed by H. Mann and J.H. Adams of Dedham, Massachusetts, for the author...
GLC00177.02
1693
Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)
The Wonders of the Invisible world: Being an Account of the Tryals... [witches]
One of the most famous of early New England books, here in the first British edition printed at London, following the first edition published in Boston the same year. Mather meant to expose witchcraft and to support his friends in the government....
GLC00264
1902
Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)
The anti-slavery papers of James Russell Lowell.
First edition. No. 141 of a Limited edition of 525 copies. Uncut and unopened. Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company.
GLC00267.013
1863
Cairnes, John Elliott (1823-1875)
The Slave-power: Its character, career and probable designs: Being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the America contest.
Second edition. Published by Macmillan and Company. Contains pencil notes on title page. Includes dedication to John Stuart Mill: "...the opportunity of connecting my name in public with that of one from whose works I have profited more largely...
GLC00267.014
7 June 1827
New Hampshire Auxiliary Colonisation Society
The third annual report of the New Hampshire Auxiliary Colonisation Society, presented and read at the meeting of the society, held in Concord, June 7, 1827.
Includes some discussion of Liberia, missionary work and a recent speech of Henry Clay, president of the national Society. First edition. Printed at the Repository and Observer office. Stamp of Dartmouth College Library.
GLC00267.044
1832
Converse, J. K. (John Kendrick) (1801-1880)
A Discourse, on the moral, legal and domestic condition of our colored population, preached before the Vermont Colonization Society, at Montpelier, October 17, 1832.
Converse preaches that Blacks, "though they might be freemen in name, can never be raised to the rank and privileges of freemen in this country." He blames white American racism for this situation and proposes colonization as the solution. First...
GLC00267.050
1820
Spring, Gardiner (1785-1873)
Memoirs of the Reverend Samuel J. Mills, late missionary to the South Western section of the United States...
(title continues)... and agent of the American Colonization Society, deputed to explore the coast of Africa. By Spring as pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York. Published by the New-York Evangelical Missionary Society.
GLC00267.057
Kemble, Fanny (1809-1893)
Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839.
First edition, first issue. Published by Harper & Brothers. Text is 337 pages followed by ten pages of advertisements for new Harper & Brothers' books.
GLC00267.072
Olmsted, Frederick Law (1822-1903)
A journey in the back country.
Volume III of Our Slave States. Previous documentation indicates this is a first edition. Published by Mason Brothers. Introduction begins: "This is the third volume of a work, the first of which was a narrative of a journey in the sea-board...
GLC00267.073
The impending crisis of the South: how to meet it.
Cited as "Fourth thousand" above publisher information. Previous documentation indicates this is a first edition. Published by Burdick Brothers. Signed on inner front cover by B.B. Eldridge. Introduction states: "it has been no part of my purpose...
GLC00267.075
1867
Nojoque; a question for a continent.
Published by George W. Carleton & Company. In the introduction, Helper states, "Were I to state here, frankly and categorically, that the primary object of this work is to write the negro out of America, and that the secondary object is to write him...
GLC00267.076
1845
History of the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; comprehending all the official proceedings of the General Conference.
Title continues: "the southern annual conferences, and the General Convention; with such other matters as are necessary to a right understanding of the case."
GLC00267.077
Armstrong, George D. (George Dodd) (1813-1899)
The Christian doctrine of slavery.
Published in New York by Charles Scribner. Justification of slavery based on the principles and history of Christianity.
GLC00267.078
1847
Bushnell, Horace (1802-1876)
Barbarism the first danger. A discourse for home missions.
Claims that slavery has diminished southern society. Printed for the American Home Missionary Society, by William Osborn in New York. Bushnell was the pastor of the North Church in Hartford, Connecticut.
GLC00267.081
1889
Stroyer, Jacob (1849-1908)
My life in the south.
Biography of Stroyer, an freedman raised on a plantation in South Carolina and freed in 1864 by the Emancipation Proclamation. Stroyer was minister of the African Methodist Episcopal church in Salem. The introduction contains letters of support for...
GLC00267.083
1837
Keep, John (fl. 1837)
An address, delivered December 22, 1837, in the village of Lockport, N.Y. commemorative of the martyrdom of Rev. E. P. Lovejoy, who was killed by the mob...
Title continues, "... in the city of Alton, Ill., on the night of November 7, 1837." Elijah P. Lovejoy was a Presbyterian minister, editor of a religious newspaper who was killed by a pro-slavery mob. Keep was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church...
GLC00267.090
1855
Parker, Theodore (1810-1860)
The trial of Theodore Parker for the "misdemeanor" of a speech in Faneuil Hall against kidnapping, before the circuit court of the United States...
(title continues)... at Boston, April 3, 1855. With the defence. Published for the author. Other works by Parker are listed on the last two pages.
GLC00267.096
Stuart, Moses (1780-1852)
Conscience and the constitution with remarks on the recent speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster on the subject of slavery.
Published by Crocker & Brewster. Stuart discusses the problems of ending slavery. In closing, writes "The last thing I have to say, is, to ask the question, whether it would not be a feasible thing, and the best thing we can do, to colonize the...
GLC00267.138
Clark, Rufus W. (Rufus Wheelwright) (1813-1886)
A Review of the Rev. Moses Stuart's pamphlet on slavery, entitled conscience and the Constitution.
Published by C. C. P. Moody. Clark, pastor of the North Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, rebuts Stuart's argument regarding slavery (Stuart argued for colonization; refer to GLC00267.138). In closing, writes "...notwithstanding the strong...
GLC00267.139
Spencer, Ichabod S. (Ichabod Smith) (1798-1854)
Fugitive slave law. The religious duty of obedience to law: a sermon, preached in the Second Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, Nov. 24, 1850.
Published by M. W. Dodd. Argues against resistance to government and law, and upholds citizens' religious duty to obey the law. Writes, "I am not justifying slavery... I am not justifying the fugitive-slave Law. It may be wrong: it may be unwise...
GLC00267.141
Thompson, Joseph Parrish (1819-1879)
The fugitive slave law; tried by the Old and New Testaments.
Argues against obeying fugitive slave laws. Published by William Harned, New York, printed by B. L. Hamlen, New Haven, Connecticut. Reprinted from the New Englander for November 1850. Thompson was the pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church.
GLC00267.142
1854
Clarke, James Freeman (1810-1888)
The rendition of Anthony Burns. Its causes and consequences. A discourse on Christian politics, delivered in Williams Hall, Boston, on Whitsunday, June 4, 1854.
Concerns the extradition of Burns, a fugitive slave who was captured in Boston and returned to Virginia. Demonstrates the wide-held belief that the "Slave Power" of the South could control the North and cause Northerners to allow this to happen....
GLC00267.151
1843
Abell, Alexander Gurdon (1819-1890)
Life of John Tyler, president of the United States, up to the close of the second session of the twenty-seventh congress:...
Title continues: ...including some of his most important speeches while a member of the House of Representatives and the of the Senate of the United States, and his principal messages and other public papers as chief magistrate of the union. A...
GLC00267.183
1852
Beals, Greene & Co. (1852)
The Whig charge of intolerance against the New Hampshire Democracy and Gen. Franklin Pierce.
Written in response to rumors and allegations from the Whig party that Franklin Pierce is religiously intolerant. States that "[i]n American political contests the seraching questions out to be ever, as to a candidate, 'Is he honest? is he capable...
GLC00267.191
1865
Hudson, Henry N. (1814-1886)
A chaplain's campaign with Gen. Butler
Critical of General Benjamin F. Butler. See GLC00267.237 for a response. Sabin 33493.
GLC00267.236
Davenport, John I. (b. 1843)
Official documents relating to a "Chaplain's campaign (not) with General Butler," but in New York.
An ironic response to Chaplain Henry N. Hudson's attack on General Butler by Butler's former assistant provost marshal, John I. Davenport. Printed by Charles Hunt. See GLC00267.236 for the pamphlet being responded to. Sabin 9618.
GLC00267.237
1924
Minnigh, Luther W. (fl. 1905-1924)
Gettysburg: What they did here
Title continues, "The Standard Historical Guide Book on 'Gettysburg' with Numerous Maps and Illustrations." Covers battle plans and marches, various headquarters, and details of the three days' battle. Describes the Soldiers' National Cemetery and...
GLC00267.259
1864
Quint, Alonzo Hall (1828-1896)
The Potomac and the Rapidan. Army notes, from the failure at Winchester to the reënforcement of Rosecrans. 1861-3
Written by Quint as the chaplain of the Second Massachusetts Infantry. Published in Boston by Crosby and Nichols and in New York by O.S. Felt. Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry at 4 Spring Lane. Quint says the book came about from his...
GLC00267.317
Smith, Edward Parmelee (1827-1876)
Incidents of the United States Christian Commission
Published by J. B. Lippincott & Co. Serves as a collection of descriptions of Civil War events contributed by Union soldiers and sailors. Includes chapters pertaining to various Civil War battles and locations.
GLC00267.337
Bartlett, John Russell (1805-1886)
The Barbarities of the Rebels...
Title continues, "...as Shown in their Cruelty to the Federal Wounded and Prisoners; in their Outrages Upon Union Men; in the Murder of Negroes, and in their Unmanly Conduct Throughout the Rebellion." Written by Bartlett as Secretary of State for...
GLC00267.355
Freeman, Frederick (1799-1883)
A plea for Africa, being familiar conversations on the subject of slavery and colonization, [originally published under the title "Yaradee."]
Published by J. Whetham. Discusses African history, slavery, and colonization. Contains reviews following the appendix. Also includes an advertisement for Psalmodia, another book by Freeman. On inner front cover, contains a Henry F. Porter...
GLC00267.392
1795
Trumbull, John (1750-1831)
M'Fingal: A modern epic poem [New York edition with engravings]
With nine copper-plate engravings. Signed on titlepage: "Soloman Williams'/1795." Collateral to John Adams ALS to John Trumbull, GLC 1228.
GLC00288
1849
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
First edition printing in original brown pebble cloth. Printed by James Munroe & Co., Boston; New York : George P. Putnam; Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blackiston; London : John Chapman, 1849. Based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord...
GLC00326
1870
Boston Public Library. Prince collection.
The Prince library: a catalogue of the collection of books and manuscripts which formerly belonged to the...
(title continues)... Reverend Thomas Prince, and was by him bequeathed to the old South Church and is now deposited in the public library of the City of Boston. Published by Alfred Mudge & Son printers. Divided in American part, foreign part, and...
GLC00351
1947
Grolier Club
One hundred influential American books printed before 1900...
(title continues)... Catalogue and addresses. Exhibition at The Grolier Club, April eighteenth-June sixteenth, MCMXLVI. Published by the Grolier Club. Contents include the committee's selections, "America as Frontier," a catalogue of the...
GLC00352
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