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Final report of the congressional committee upon the question of reconstruction

Report of the Joint Committee of the two Houses of Congress on reconstruction. The legislation contains a draft of the 14th amendment, and two bills providing for the restoration of the rebellious state to their full political rights.

GLC03465

to James W. Grimes

Worries about the defense of Washington and discusses his new position as Secretary of the Treasury. The state of the treasury is bad, his task is very complicated, and his health makes the problem worse. Worries about the safety of Washington, the...

GLC05603.01.01

Joint resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, in relation to slavery and the admission of Kansas into the Union.

House of Representatives mis. doc. no. 38 (34th Congress, 3rd session). Grimes, Governor of Iowa, approved these resolutions in January 1857. Reprinted by Congress in February. Iowa states its opposition to "the further extension of slavery within...

GLC08452.07

[Portraits of Notable People]

One untitled engraving circa 1861-1877. Portraits of Zachariah Chandler, John Parker Hale, Henry Bowen Anthony, Oliver Perry Morton, James Wilson Grimes, Thomas A. Hendricks, Simon Cameron. Engraved by William Wellstood.

GLC08878.0116