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13 March 1860
Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)
[Quotation of Charles Sumner on liberty]
Complete quotation reads: "And I cannot go wrong when I lean to the side of Liberty."
GLC02095.27
11 February 1864
[Quotation of Charles Sumner on freedom]
Complete quotation reads: "Freedom always for all!" Marked Senate Chamber.
GLC02095.28
6 January 1840
Fillmore, Millard (1800-1874)
to Solomon Haven
Discusses political and social news. Mentions that the state legislature will meet tomorrow and that there is a movement toward legal reform, which he feels in necessary. Briefly comments on national and state debts. Written as member of Congress.
GLC02344
26 November 1819
Key, Francis Scott (1779-1843)
to Henry Maynadier
Written from Georgetown. Key writes to his uncle about depressed stock prices. He also discusses colonizing 12 captured Africans who are in Baltimore (he does not explain how they came to be there), in reference to his efforts through the American...
GLC02379
30 May 1854
Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland) (1808-1873)
to Alexander S. Latty
Urges him to sign and circulate a petition concerning slavery he is working on with Senator Benjamin Franklin Wade. Writes "...it is time to have a Democracy of the People against the Oligarchy of the Slaveholder. So sir, I pray you, If our call...
GLC00018
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