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[Oath of loyalty]

Aaron Jeffery's signed loyalty oath "to support, protect, and defend the Constitution... [including] with references to slaves." Written at "Office of Provost Marshall", Richmond, Va.

GLC01896.074

to Mr. Newcomb

Written on Archer's return from Cuba through the blockade around Florida. First half of the letter details his belief that the war was lost because of the failure of the public to support the war effort. "...[I]f the people had have stood by them...

GLC01896.076

Fayetteville observer. [Vol. 13, no. 1292 (December 28, 1863)]

Expedition of Colored Troops into North Carolina, New York Herald Wants Grant For President.

GLC05959.34.21

Charleston daily courier. [Vol. 61, no. 19,425 (March 25, 1863)]

Morgan Overwhelmed by Superior Forces, The Value of Negro Labors.

GLC05959.37.13

Confederate Baptist. [Vol. 1, no. 12 (December 17, 1862)]

A letter to the editor titled "A Man for the Times" describes the value of an upright citizen-neighbor. An article titled "Desire of Riches" warns about the danger of wealth, while another article extols "Christian Diplomacy," especially in light of...

GLC05959.39.09

Confederate Baptist. [Vol. 1, no. 22 (March 25, 1863)]

"Army Correspondence" includes several letters from soldiers. An editorial examines the topic of "Death," while another short article titled "Last Words" discusses a soldier's last words and actions. "Secular News" includes a report that 200 Negro...

GLC05959.39.17

True witness. [ Vol. 8, no. 41 (December 7, 1861)

Union Between the Old and New School South, Religious Reading for Our Soldiers, Slavery.

GLC05959.18.02

Church intelligencer. [Vol. 5, no. 25 (March 16, 1865)]

A description of the occupation and destruction of Columbia includes details to the pillage and burning of the city. Correspondence between Sherman and General Hampton concerns Sherman's march and pillage through South Carolina, with special...

GLC05959.32.05

to Henry Jackson Hunt

Mentions Emily Virginia Mason's biography of Robert E. Lee, for which Hunt supplied information. Discusses a compromise of Hunt's integrity, apparently regarding fabrications published about Hunt's false involvement with the Ku Klux Klan. States...

GLC02382.089

Southern confederacy. [Vol. 3, no. 28 (March 15, 1863)]

"The Raid into North Alabama," reprinted from the Huntsville Advocate, includes reports of the raid by "abolitionist hellhounds." "The Slavery Question" is the title of a chapter in a popular book, the summary of which appears under the heading...

GLC05959.09.155

Houston tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 30, no. 153, whole no. 3884 (March 17, 1865)]

Abstract of Governor Brown's message, The fall of Fort Fisher, Condition of the slaves stolen by Sherman.

GLC05959.54.40

Houston tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 30, no. 155, whole no. 3886 (March 22, 1865)]

Dispatches regarding the defeat & capture of General Early by Sheridan, Sherman in Fayetteville, NC, Guerrillas active in Kentucky, 25,000 loyal blacks being organized into regiments by Sherman.

GLC05959.54.42

to John H. B. Latrobe

Concerning an American Colonization Society legal settlement arising from the transportation of cargo and colonists. Francis Scott Key, a lawyer and member of the society, brainstorms ideas for diminishing their liability. Latrobe was also a lawyer...

GLC07100

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Heavily vignetted profile portrait of Stowe as an older woman. Signed on mount.

GLC07093

to Jacob Burdett

Written by Clay as a lawyer in Lexington, Kentucky, before he began his political career to Burdett as an attorney in Cincinnati, Ohio. References a previous letter by Burdett respecting Jim, a runaway slave whose status was in question. Says an...

GLC07098

to Theodore Sedgwick

Discusses a two hundred page report (possibly of the Amistad case). Mentions Lewis Tappan, an abolitionist who supported the Amistad Africans' freedom. Discusses the authenticity of treaties admitted as evidence in the Amistad case at District...

GLC07099

to Robert Tyler

Tyler, former President of the United States, elaborates on the 1860 Presidential election to his son Robert. States that he discussed the election with Colonel William T. Withers of Mississippi. Expresses approval at the fusion of Stephen Douglas'...

GLC07112

Oration delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester

First Edition by Lee, Mann & Co. Douglass' famous fourth of July oration, given on the fifth. Douglass was asked by the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society to give the oration on the fourth, choosing the topic "the meaning of the Fourth to the...

GLC06829

to W. S. Rainsford

Writes of Creel: "He can only find inconsistencies precisely as he can find them in the writings of Washington or Lincoln- that is, an occasional honest and necessary change of mind and ...circumstances which necessitated a change on my part...

GLC06881

to James B. Bradwell re: mementos of Jefferson Davis

These mementos belonged to Keckley, a freed slave and onetime seamstress to Mrs. Davis and later to Mrs. Lincoln. They include a "Bedstead taken from the House of Jefferson Davis, four (4) days after the evacuation of the city" and "some other...

GLC06890

The equality of men before the law, claimed and defended in speeches...

Title continued: "by Hon. William D. Kelley, Wendell Phillips and Frederick Douglass." Lacks original wrappers, stab-stitched. Douglass' speech was made to the annual Anti-Slavery Convention. Blockson Collection 2779. Schomburg 324.15-K. USE WITH...

GLC06831

to John Calkins re: how his money was used for fugitive slaves

A long, detailed letter from Bibb, the noted runaway slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad, telling Calkins of Wilbraham, Mass., how his money was spent in aiding runaway slaves who had traveled on the Underground Railroad, particularly...

GLC06834

The duty of the Free States, or remarks suggested by the case of the Creole

In original wrappers. Channing argues in favor of the slaves who had taken over the Creole, a slave ship. Steering towards the British West Indies, they won freedom under British law, even though the U.S. attempted to reclaim them. Blockson...

GLC06835

The Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for ... the Abolition of Slavery

Rest of title: "and the relief of free Negroes, unlawfully held in bondage, begun in the year 1774 and enlarged... To which are added the Acts of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania for the gradual abolition of slavery." First edition, printed by...

GLC06836

to J. S. Foy re: politics, slavery and morality in North and South

"I am quite aware that the people of the South are not all 'slave drivers' or 'slave holders,' but the non-slaveholders allow the slave drivers to rule them and rule us by means of them.... We have prostitution and other evils here, but our laws are...

GLC06837