May 1858

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Pamphlet

Title: Message of the President of the United States, communicating in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, papers in regard to the seizure of the American barque Panchita on the coast of Africa.

35th Congress, 1st session, Senate Executive Document 61. The Panchita was an American slave ship seized by British vessels off the coast of Africa. Although the British admitted seizure violated U.S.-British accords, they argued it was in good faith.

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May 1858

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Pamphlet

Title: Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, information concerning the recent search or seizure of American vessels by foreign armed cruisers in the Gulf of Mexico.

35th Congress, 1st session, Senate Executive Document 59. Describes ships stopped in the Gulf of Mexico by British vessels searching for boats engaged in the slave trade. Includes narratives and American reactions, including a response of Secretary of State Lewis Cass.

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March 1862

Smith, Caleb B. (Caleb Blood), 1808-1864

Pamphlet

Title: Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of 27th day of March, 1862, in relation to the slave vessel the "Bark Augusta."

37th Congress, 2d session, Senate Executive Document 40. Tells the story of the "Augusta," ostensibly a whaler but suspected of being a slaver. It was confiscated by the New York federal courts. The U.S. Marshall charged that federal officials had colluded with the slavetraders when the "Augusta slipped out of port under suspicious circumstances."

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28 April 1828

Tazewell, Littleton Waller, 1774-1860

Pamphlet

Title: In Senate of the United States. April 28, 1828. Mr. Tazewell made the following report:

20th Congress, 1st session, doc no. 178. The Committee on Foreign Relations report declares Congress has no authority to find territory on the coast of Africa for colonization, or to appropriate money for colonization, because such powers are not expressly granted by the Constitution.

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19 February 1829

Missouri, Legislature

Pamphlet

Title: Resolution of the legislature of Missouri, declaring, in their opinion, that Congress has no power to appropriate moneys to aid the American Colonization Society.

20th Congress, 2d Session, document no. 89. Congress has no power to appropriate money to aid the American Colonization Society (based on strict construction of the Constitution). The resolution mentions the concern that the next step would be Congress buying slaves for the purpose of liberating and colonizing them.

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16 April 1832

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Pamphlet

Title: In Senate of the United States. April 16, 1832. Mr. Clay, from the Committee on Manufactures, made, to the Senate, the following Report:

22d Congress, 1st Session, document no. 128. Discusses the history of land surveying and selling after the Revolution, the Louisiana purchase, and the acquisition of Florida. There was fear in the South that proceeds would be used to advance a colonization agenda. The report recommends distributing proceeds to the states based on population.

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18 May 1832

King, William R., 1786-1853

Pamphlet

Title: In the Senate of the United States. May 18, 1832. Mr. King made the following report:

22d Congress, 1st Session, document no. 145. Unfavorable report on the proposal to use proceeds from sales of public lands for education, internal improvements, and "the colonization of free negroes upon the western coast of Africa."

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22 March 1844

Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization...

Pamphlet

Title: Memorial of the society of the District of Columbia for the colonization and civilization of Africa, praying ...

28th Congress, 1st session, Senate document no. 218. Calls upon the government for "The establishment of a commercial agency at the colony of Liberia, and asking an appropriation to forward the objects of said society, and for the benefit of said colony." Wants this commercial agency to enter into an agreement with "African chiefs for the overthrow of the slave trade...." Published by Society of the District of Columbia for the Colonization and Civilization of Africa.

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1850

Gurley, Ralph R., 1797-1872

Book

Title: Report of the Secretary of State communicating the report of the Rev. R. R. Gurley, who was recently sent out by the government...

(title continues)... to obtain information in respect to Liberia. Pamphlet bound as a book. With introductory note by Daniel Webster, Secretary of State 1850-1852. 31st Congress, 1st session, Senate Executive Document No. 75. Contains a University Library at Lewisburg stamp on page one. Contains six pages of illustrations (apparently engravings), and a fold-out map of Liberia.

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1857

Howard, Benjamin C., 1791-1872

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the opinions of the judges thereof, in the case of Dred Scott versus John F. A. Sandford.

Printed by Cornelius Wendell. Contains original paper cover, from which several large fragments are missing.

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January 20, 1843

Winthrop, Grenville Temple, 1807-1852

Pamphlet

Title: Free colored seamen - Majority and minority reports.

27th Congress, 3d session, House of Representatives document no. 80. Concerns South Carolina law jailing all free blacks in Charleston. Winthrop as senator from Massachusetts, protests on behalf of the citizens of Boston, against the jailing of free blacks working on ships arriving in Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, and New Orleans.

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January 28, 1846

Georgia. Legislature

Pamphlet

Title: Resolutions of the legislature of Georgia, relative to the controversy between Massachusetts and the states of South Carolina and Louisiana.

House document no. 87, 20th Congress, 1st session. Georgia legislature supports the states' rights position taken by South Carolina and Louisiana. Resolves that Georgia opposes Massachusetts' interference in those states' affairs and will cooperate with South Carolina and Louisiana should such a thing occur in Georgia.

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1804

Pamphlet

Title: A defense of the legislature of Massachusetts, or the rights of New England vindicated

Pamphlet defending the Massachusetts legislature's attempt to repeal the three fifths clause of the Constitution. Claims that the repeal is necessary for Massachusetts to retain any influence in national government. Argues that this clause gives Virginia the most power of any state, and that the policy favors the Southern states as a whole, but Virginia in particular. Also proposes changes regarding presidential election "to provide for the choice of Electors of President and Vice President by a General Ticket." With an appendix that lists the number of enslaved people registered in each…

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1834

Grosvenor, Cyrus P., 1792-1879

Pamphlet

Title: Address before the Anti-Slavery Society of Salem and the vicinity in the south meeting-house, in Salem, February 24, 1834.

Highlights criticism of enslavers and their source of labor. "We at the North work for our own support, with no dishonor and with essential benefit to ourselves...; and the gentlemen of the South need not think it too much to go and do likewise. If they are ashamed of labor... we may be ashamed of them." First edition. Printed by W & S. B. Ives Observer Press.

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August 1857

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874

Printed document

Title: Compensated emancipation

[Title continued] a speech by Gerrit Smith, in the National Compensation Convention, held in Cleveland, Ohio, August 25, 26 and 27, 1857. First edition. Smith, a former United States Representative from New York, writes: "The sin of extending the area of slavery, and of encouraging the slaveholders to multiply their investments in human flesh, lies at the door of the North as well as at the door of the South. Northern commerce has connived at, and openly upheld, Slavery." Location of printing is not cited.

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1902

Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891

Header Record

Title: The anti-slavery papers of James Russell Lowell.

First edition. No. 141 of a Limited edition of 525 copies. Uncut and unopened. Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company.

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1863

Cairnes, John Elliott, 1823-1875

Book

Title: The Slave-power: Its character, career and probable designs: Being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the America contest.

Second edition. Published by Macmillan and Company. Contains pencil notes on title page. Includes dedication to John Stuart Mill: "...the opportunity of connecting my name in public with that of one from whose works I have profited more largely than from those of any other living writer, was one which I could not easily forego."

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January 14, 1829

Georgia. General Assembly

Pamphlet

Title: Report adopted by the Legislature of Georgia on the resolutions of South Carolina and Ohio ...

Title continues, " ... in relation to the powers of the general government and state rights, and to the subject of slavery." 20th Congress, 2nd session. Report concludes that the writers of the Constitution did not intend all power to be consolidated in the federal government. Agrees with South Carolina's state rights doctrines and declares that the protective tariff laws are unconstitutional.

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26 November 1833

Hayne, Robert Y., 1791-1839

Pamphlet

Title: State of South Carolina. Governor's Hayne's message.

A message from the Governor congratulating his state of South Carolina for firmly opposing the original tariff and the Force Act passed by the federal government. Hayne insists that nullification is an "unquestionable right of Sovereignty, under a system of confederated states...." Printed by A.S. Johnston, Printer to the House of Representatives.

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1851

Jenkins, John S., 1818-1852

Book

Title: The Life of John Caldwell Calhoun

Biography of Calhoun, vice president under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Published by James M. Alden.

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1897

Powell, Edward Payson, 1833-1915

Book

Title: Nullification and secession in the United States

A history of the six attempts during the first century of the Republic. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, printed by the Knickerbocker Press.

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1851

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Header Record

Title: The Works of Daniel Webster

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1791

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.

Book

Title: An abstract of the evidence delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons in the years 1790 and 1791...

(title continues)... on the part of the petitioners for the abolition of the slave trade. Pamphlet bound as a book. With a note "Printed at the expense of the society in Newcastle for promoting the abolition of the slave-trade. Includes one illustration: a damaged and torn folding woodcut of slave ship, with lower portion missing. Contains a list of witnesses examined by the House of Commons regarding the slave trade.

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1816

Urquhart, Thomas, fl. 1816

Pamphlet

Title: A letter to Wm Wilberforce, Esq. M.P. on the subject of Impressment; calling on him and the philanthropists of this country ...

Title continues "... to prove those feelings of sensibility they expressed in the cause of humanity on negro slavery, by acting with the same ardor and zeal in the cause of British seamen." First edition. Published for the benefit of the Maritime Society. Printed by J. Gillet, London. Published by R. S. Kirby, London.

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19 February 1847

New Hampshire Senate

Pamphlet

Title: Resolutions of the Legislature of New Hampshire in relation to slavery and the domestic slave trade.

29th Congress, 2d session, document no. 155. Opposes slavery in the territories, favors abolition in the District of Columbia and abolition of the domestic slave trade. Signed in print by John P. Hale as Speaker of the House, James U. Parker as President of the Senate, Anthony Colby as Governor, and George G. Fogg as Secretary of State. Approved 10 July 1846.

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