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The Rough riders

Signed on front endpaper.

GLC08750

Columbian centinel & Massachusetts federalist. [Vol. 41, no. 43 (July 25, 1804)]

Includes an article reviewing Thomas Jefferson's administration and another denouncing Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury. Has coverage of the 11 July 1804 Aaron Burr-Alexander Hamilton duel on pages 1 and 2. Other articles detail local...

GLC08751

Eastern argus. [Vol. 1, no. 48 (August 2, 1804)]

Contains an article denouncing modern Federalism. Includes an account of the 11 July 1804 duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton on page 3 which condemns the practice of dueling. It reacts to the sympathy generated by Hamilton's murder by...

GLC08818

New York Herald. [No. 8826 (November 7, 1860)]

Reports the results of the 1860 Presidential election, announcing Abraham Lincoln as President and Hannibal Hamlin as Vice President. States "Our returns indicate, however, that the next Congress will be in opposition to the republicans." Includes...

GLC08824

The Life, speeches, and public services of Abram Lincoln.

Also includes a sketch of the life of Hannibal Hamil, Vice President. In original orange cover with printed adverts. Marked, "The Wigwam edition," and printed by Rudd & Carleton, New York.

GLC08843

Equality [with Theodore Roosevelt's armorial bookplate]

First edition with dust jacket.

GLC08860

to Samuel Huntington

Washington transmits several Acts and duplicates (not included) to Huntington, Governor of Connecticut. Includes Acts for allowing for compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, for the establishment of the Post Office...

GLC05231

Expulsion of Mr. Bright. Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States, Jan. 31, 1862

Published Scammell & Co. Printers. Explains his reasons for voting to expel Senator Bright of Indiana from the Senate. Senator Bright was charged with writing a letter to Jefferson Davis ( president of the Confederacy) on March 1, 1861. Accuses...

GLC05255.01

House members who voted in favor of Johnson's impeachment, signed by 127 members

Resolution, engrossed on vellum and signed by House members who voted in favor of Johnson's impeachment. Signed by Speaker of the House, Schuyler Colfax, the House Clerk and 126 congressmen. Accompanied (5274.02) by small format Brady composite...

GLC05274.01

to W. Williams re: Jefferson-Burr election crisis

Written as Speaker of the House during the Jefferson-Burr election crisis. "15 ballots have been taken & no election."

GLC05301

Twelfth Amendment, with notes, and draft of speech to the legislature at bottom

12th Amendment with notations. The draft speech at the bottom of the page is the beginning of the speech GLC 5321.02.

GLC05321.01

to [Patrick Henry?]

Gerry, a Continental Congressman, discusses an unspecified request and an appeal brought before Congress. Informs Henry, Governor of Virginia, that he will ask Congressional President John Hancock why the appeal has not been presented to Congress...

GLC05346

[Presidential pardon of John G. English for rebellion].

Signed by Andrew Johnson as President. Countersigned by William H. Seward as Secretary of State. English's plantation was in Aberdeen, Mississippi. White seal on second page. Document was originally folded into sixths.

GLC05460

to Elmer T. Clark

Wallace applauds the Methodist Church's decision to promote "practical action in behalf of the brotherhood of man in the post-war world." He writes that the social creed of the Methodist Church has long been an inspiration to him.

GLC05508.252

to Richard Rush

Adams in retirement to Rush as Attorney General. Written from "Montezillo," a playful reference to Adams' own home in Quincy, Massachusetts. References Rush's letter of 29 September 1816. In that letter Rush related a story about a horseback...

GLC05573

to Curtis Dixon

Sends his congratulations on his cousin's marriage and jokes that he believes "a state of matrimony is upon the whole the best state in the Union, and will be the last to yield to the sundering doctrine of nullification, and that there is little...

GLC05575

to Abraham Lincoln

Signed by Hannibal Hamlin as Vice President. Also signed by members of Congress including Representatives from Maine; Lot Myrick Morrill, John N. Goodwin, Charles Wesley Walton, John H. Rice, Frederick Augustus Pike, Anson Peaslee Morrill, and Ohio...

GLC05603.01.10

to Henry C. Rives

States that he does not have an autograph of the late President Lincoln that he can send.

GLC05603.01.11

Carte de visite portrait by Mathew Brady, published by Hoyt

Gray mount. Half length bust portrait with Hamlin facing slightly to the right. With signature beneath image. Publishers length-wise imprint on verso: "The Brady National Portrait Gallery. Hoyt." [Elaborate imprint -- probably post war.]

GLC05604.06

Carte de visite portrait by Mathew Brady & Co.

Vignette bust view with Colfax facing forward. With Signature beneath image on mount.

GLC05604.07

[Orders for transport of the Amistad captives]

Countersigned by John Forsyth as Secretary of State. President Van Buren writes to Norris Wilcox, Marshal of the District of Connecticut. States: "The Marshal of the United States for the District of Connecticut will deliver over to Lieutenant John...

GLC05636.01

[Presidential pardon and U.S. Army discharge pouch of George W. Peters [Decimalized]

GLC05653

[Presidential pardon of George W. Peters, who deserted the navy on 27 March 1897 by Theodore Roosevelt]

Deserted the vessel the "Puritan" who re-enlisted twice--28 March 1898 and 5 September 1901 aboard the Richmond--as George W. Rogers, and served normally until discharged. Pardoned based on service to country and recommendation of the Acting...

GLC05653.01

to Merriman

Thanks Merriman for the lovely piece about his daughter Margie [Margaret]. Informs that he is sending it to her mother. Written on White House stationery. Signed with initials "H.S.T."

GLC05697

to Lieutenant of Berkeley Co. re: plans to avenge murders of settlers by Indians

Signed as governor. Planning to retaliate with militia for the murder of frontier settlers by British-backed Indians. "We have been too long diverted by humanity from enforcing good behavior by severe chastisement. Savages are to be curbed by fear...

GLC05710