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Pierce's Inaugural Address

This document is a clipping from "Stark Co. Democrat---Extra." from Canton, Ohio on 5 March 1853. On it is printed a copy of President Franklin Pierce's Inaurgual Address. The publisher of the newspaper is not listed.

GLC04751

to Benjamin Rush re: railing against narrow, selfish spirit of parties; Napoleon

Also mentions Spain, religion, and the Louisiana Claims.

GLC04756

to Samuel Huntington

The governor of New York sends to the governor of Connecticut the New York legislature's proposed amendments to the Constitution (not included). Asks that this draft of the Bill of Rights be circulated in the Connecticut legislature.

GLC04767

Proposed amendments to the Constitution

This document, in a contemporary hand, compiles and compares the proposals of several states. Many of the proposals are in the form substantially used in the Bill of Rights.

GLC04770

to Henry Knox re: considering constitutionality of a Pennsylvania Act

GLC04772.01

to S[amuel?] Holten re: ratification of the Constitution

GLC04772.03

Presidential veto of "act to incorporate Mount Olive Cemetery Co."

Presidential veto of "act to incorporate Mount Olive Cemetery Co." because it would exempt them from paying for public improvements. Originally pasted overall on an piece of light cardboard containing election ephemera for Vincent L. Palmisano....

GLC04994

to Charles Pickney re: uncertain results of Presidential election of 1800

With free frank. Marshall hopes for election of Federal delegates in the vote for president.

GLC04996

to Robert Adams

He is disturbed over the "clamour raised for the disfranchisement of the colored voters of the South." Written on letterhead from Cedar Hill, Douglass's Washington, D.C. home.

GLC04997

Appointment of Rufus W. Peckham as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

Counter-signed by Judson Harmon.

GLC05085.01