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Collection of letters from Salmon Portland Chase to Jehu Glancy Jones regarding the politics during the Reconstruction Era [Decimalized .01-.05]

GLC05677

2 Broadsides and 1 newsletter related to the Sacco Vanzetti case [decimalized]

Materials relating to the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in 1927.

GLC05712

Justice the issue! Shall Sacco and Vanzetti be judicially murdered?

This document is a printed broadside put out by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee which attacks the exclusive judgment of Judge Webster Thayer and says in part: "The issue is not only for Massachusetts. It is for America. The world will judge...

GLC05712.01

[Broadside against the Sacco-Vanzetti execution]

This document is a printed broadside that quotes a columnist from the New York World and reads, "What more can these immigrants from Italy expect? it is not every prisoner who has a President of Harvard University throw on the switch for him." Sacco...

GLC05712.02

The official bulletin of the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee [Vol. I, no. 15 (September 1927)]

Newspaper or newsletter issued after the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The first page has a printed statement denouncing the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti and comparing the case to the Salem witchcraft trials. The rest of the...

GLC05712.03

to Nahum Capen re: Grant's presidential campaign

Written in purple ink and signed (for her husband) by Varina Davis. "With all his stupidity, neglect of his duties and abuse of his trust... the case must be hopeless. [...] God forbade war to coerce the seceding tribes (of Israel) to return. "

GLC05719

to Thomas Robinson Hazard

Clay writes from Ashland, his estate, to Hazard, the noted reformer. Declines an invitation to visit Hazard in Rhode Island, relating that he will not be able to leave home this summer due to ill health. Also due to his health, this letter is...

GLC05721

to Robert Tyler

Written to his son. Attacks the racial and religious prejudices of the Know-Nothing Party, stating, "a secret society whose only avowed object is religious persecution, cannot endure." Mentions John Selden, Law, Colonel May, and Vanderbilt. He does...

GLC05741

to Solomon G. Haven re: fund raising for election of Harrison; locoism

"Like mushrooms it [locoism] springs up during the darkness of night from the steaming heaps of dung that encumber the earth...." With FF.

GLC05753

to Stephen Twining re: election tied between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr

Date obscured but docketed 1801. Writes with his wishes for a Happy New Year and "entrance upon the nineteenth Century." Adds that "[t]he votes are even between Jefferson and Burr. [.... ] Never were men more seriously alarmed than our republican...

GLC05754.02

to Stephen Twining re: burning of Teasury, Marshall nominated for Chief Justice

It seems, as tho' Pandora's Box of Mischief was opened upon the United States -- Last evening... the Treasury Department was discovered to be on fire -- The flame caught presumably from the hearth of the Auditors room -- and wrapped up and consumed...

GLC05754.09

The opinions of Abraham Lincoln, upon slavery and its issues

Excerpts relating to slavery taken from various speeches given by Lincoln over the years. Printed by L. Towers for the Union Congressional Committee. Signed in pencil on front "Moses W.D. Hamel."

GLC05765

to Jonathan Trumbull re: unwillingness to accept a 3d term, political attacks

Explaining unwillingness to accept a third term, describing political attacks, etc.: "Let that party [the Democrats] set up a broomstick, and call it a true son of Liberty, a Democrat, or give it any other epithet that will suit their purpose, and it...

GLC05787

to Henry B. Adams

"I am quite in sympathy with democratic principles; it is democratic practice that I object to... Jefferson has always been my pet aversion; to me he seems merely an intriguing doctrinaire, mighty in word and weak in action, revengeful but timid, of...

GLC05792

to Stephen Twining re: dismissal of Secretary of State

Dated Tuesday morning. Date inferred from recipient's docket. "We were yesterday morning astonished by the dismissal of the Secretary of State. It has been long known that there was not union in the Cabinet."

GLC05754.03

Thomas Dorr papers, relating to Dorr's rebellion [decimalized]

GLC05757

The People's Constitution

Editorial by Governor Dorr maintaining the importance of supporting the People's Constitution in Rhode Island, even though they failed to take the arsenal on 18 May 1842. Argues that any state would defend itself and its constitution if they were...

GLC05757.01

to Mr. Miller

Encloses his editorial entitled "The People's Constitution" (see GLC05757.01) and requests that they print it on Friday. Ends with patriotic fervor: "But every man must be true to the Constitution. There must be no compromise." A note at the...

GLC05757.02

to Millard, Low, & Miller

Governor Dorr encloses a proclamation and general order (see GLC05757.04 and GLC05757.05) to be published "without delay" in the Daily Express, the Herald, or some other paper. Rejects the insinuation in an editorial in the Express that he might...

GLC05757.03

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations. A Proclamation by the Governor of the Same.

Governor Dorr sent this proclamation with a letter (see GLC05757.03) to Millard, Low, & Miller, publishers of the Daily Express. Instructs the General Assembly to meet at Gloucester, Rhode Island, on 4 July 1842 instead of at Providence. Also...

GLC05757.04

General Orders

Governor Dorr sent this order with a letter (see GLC05757.03) to Millard, Low, & Miller, publishers of the Daily Express. Orders the mobilization of volunteer forces. "It has become the duty of all our citizenship who believe that the People are...

GLC05757.05

Republican Herald--Extra. Governor Morton's Letter.

An extra from a Rhode Island newspaper, published by Simons, that prints a letter from the former governor of Massachusetts, Marcus Morton. Morton declares that the circumstances in Rhode Island (relating to the Dorr Rebellion) are of national...

GLC05757.06

[Thomas Dorr's response to Whig accusations during the Dorr Rebellion]

Written in the third person and signed "Gov. Dorr" at the top of the page. Responds to accusations in Whig newspapers that he is "one of the most pusillanimous cowards in existence" and is "about to descend upon Rhode Island with a military force."...

GLC05757.07

to Thomas W. Dorr

The 141 undersigned Democratic Republican members of the New Hampshire legislature (including Franklin Pierce) and other citizens convey their support for Rhode Island's illegitimate Governor Dorr: "We think that the principles for which you have...

GLC05757.08

to Moses Norris, Jr., Thomas Chandler, Reuben Davis, Franklin Pierce, Nathan Felton, and Samuel Swasey, & others

Responds to a letter from 141 Democratic Republican members of the New Hampshire legislature and citizenry (see GLC05757.08). Thanks them for their support and accepts their invitation to speak about Rhode Island's citizen's thwarted attempt to...

GLC05757.09