1856

Pamphlet

Title: The fearful issue to be decided in November next! Shall the Constitution and the Union stand or fall?

Pamphlet attacking John C. Fremont's presidential candidacy, and in support of James Buchanan. Accuses Fremont and many of his supporters of fostering disunion through abolition and sectionalism. Full title "The fearful issue to be decided in November next! Shall the Constitution and the Union stand or fall? Fremont, the Sectional Candidate of the Advocates of Dissolution! Buchanan, the Candidate of those who Advocate One Country! One Union! One Constitution! And One Destiny!" Pamphlet begins "We propose showing indubitable testimony that John C. Fremont's leading friends are now the…

GLC00267.199

1856

Pamphlet

Title: Read and reflect!

Pro-Democrat pamphlet attacking John Frémont. Lists fifteen charges against the Republican party led by Frémont. "Let every lover of his country remember that during the present Congress...the Republican (Frémont) party have voted to violate the most solemn treaties of the United States..." Includes official records to support the charges, namely a report on the territory of Kansas by Stephen Douglas. No date listed, but dated as 1856 from David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC. Lacks separate titlepage as issued. Previously had a sewn binding as there are holes on the left side…

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1856

Pamphlet

Title: Is Millard Fillmore an abolitionist?

Printed at the American Patriot office. Additional title: "The agitation of slavery. Who commenced and who can end it? Buchanan and Fillmore compared from the record."

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1856

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Pamphlet

Title: James Buchanan, his doctrines and policy as exhibited by himself and friends.

Attacks Buchanan as a Southern supporter using letters and speeches from Buchanan himself and his supporters. Includes editor headings as charges against Buchanan, such as "Mr. Buchanan in favor of seizing Cuba" "If you can't buy Cuba, steal it" and "Always Faithful to Slavery." Published by Greeley & McElrath at the Tribune Office. Dated as 1856 by David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC. Sewn binding.

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1856

Walker, Robert J., 1801-1869

Pamphlet

Title: An Appeal for the Union. Letter from the Hon. Robert J. Walker

Printed by John F. Trow. An appeal for James Buchanan for President.

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1856

Dix, William Giles, ?-1898

Pamphlet

Title: The Presidency: a reply to the letter of Hon. Rufus Choate to the Whig Committee of Maine.

Printed by John P. Jewett and Company. A pro-Fremont campaign document. Supports John C. Frémont in the Presidential election. Criticizes Millard Fillmore.

GLC00267.204

1860

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Book

Title: A political text-book for 1860: Comprising a brief view of presidential nominations and elections: ...

Title continues, " ... Including all the national platforms ever yet adopted: also, a history of the struggle respecting slavery in the territories, and of the action of Congress as to the freedom of the public lands, with the most notable speeches and letters of Messrs, Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, Cass, Seward, Everett, Breckinridge, H. V. Johnson, etc., etc., touching the questions of the day; and returns of all presidential elections since 1836. Compiled by Horace Greeley and John F. Cleveland." Published by the Tribune Association.

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1860

Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867

Pamphlet

Title: Speeches of John A. Andrew at Hingham and Boston, together with his testimony before the Harper's Ferry Committee of the Senate, in relation to John Brown.

Campaign pamphlet for John A. Andrew while running as Republican for Governor of Massachusetts. Contains campaign speeches, the party platform, transcript of Andrew's testimony before the Senate regarding John Brown, and a defense of an attack on Brown. Andrew was called before Congress to explain how and why he helped find lawyers to represent John Brown at his trial in Virginia. Also explains that those who claim Andrew funded Brown's raid are mistaken, and clarifies his support of Brown.

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1860

Miller, Charles D., 1818-1896

Pamphlet

Title: Gerrit Smith and the Vigilant Association of the City of New-York

Reprinting of the correspondence of a dispute between Gerrit Smith and the Vigilant Association of the City of New-York. Miller attacks the Association for implying in its "Manifesto" that Smith supported the violence at Harpers Ferry. Says that Smith would never condone violence, even to free enslaved people. Insists Smith had no prior knowledge of the Harpers Ferry plan, or any plan for violence. Miller says he is writing because Smith is too sick to write himself. Correspondence is with Royal Phelps and Samuel L. M. Barlow. Text taken "From the Syracuse Journal." An appendix…

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1859

Lincoln, Levi, 1782-1868

Pamphlet

Title: Boston Courier report of the Union Meeting in Faneuil Hall

Speeches and letters condemning John Brown and his raid, and preaching an end to sectionalism. Prints speeches given by Massachusetts governor Levi Lincoln, Edward Everett and Caleb Cushing during a meeting in Boston. Also contains related letters by "Ex-President Pierce, Judge Curtis, Ex Govs. Morton and Clifford, Profs. Felton and Pierce, Erasmus D. Beach, and Others." All disapprove of Brown's actions. Also printed is a list of those who attended the meeting. "Published by Clark, Fellows & Company, Office of the Boston Courier."

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1860

Baker, James Loring, fl. 1860

Pamphlet

Title: Slavery.

Printed by John A. Norton. Claims that Anglo Saxon and African races can only coexist "in their present relative condition, but in no other way." Calls for free labor to gradually and permanently overtake slavery, but does not advocate slavery's immediate end. Fragile.

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1860

Redpath, James, 1833-1891

Book

Title: Public life of Capt. John Brown, by James Redpath, with an auto-biography of his childhood and youth.

Tells John Brown's life in heroic terms, praising him as a hero and a martyr. Same book as GLC08581.05.

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1836

Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866

Pamphlet

Title: Discourse pronounced at the capitol of the United States, in the Hall of Representatives, before the American Historical Society, January 30, 1836, by the Hon. Lewis Cass, President of the Society.

Printed by P. Thompson. Cass discusses history, praises George Washington, etc. Cover is missing; possibly previously bound in a larger volume.

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1837

Lincoln, Levi, 1782-1868

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Lincoln, of Massachusetts: delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, Feb. 7, 1837, on the resolution to censure the Hon. John Q. Adams...

(title continues)... for inquiring of the Speaker, whether a paper, purporting to come from enslaved people, came within the resolution laying on the table all petitions relating to slavery. Printed by Gales and Seaton. Reported by the editor of the Boston Daily Advocate.

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1839

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, on the subject of abolition petitions. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 7, 1839.

Printed by Gales and Seaton. Stab-stitched. Clay argues, "The liberty of the descendants of Africa in the United States is incompatible with the safety and liberty of the European descendants. Their slavery forms an exception... to the general liberty in the United States. We did not originate, nor are we responsible for, this necessity. Their liberty, if it were possible, could only be established by violating the incontestable powers of the States, and subverting the Union..."

GLC00267.370

1849

Giddings, Joshua Reed, 1795-1864

Pamphlet

Title: Payment for slaves. Speech of Mr. J. R. Giddings, of Ohio, on the bill to pay the heirs of Antonio Pacheco for a slave sent west of the Mississippi with the Seminole Indians in 1838...

(title continues)... made in the House of Representatives, Dec. 28, 1848, and Jan. 6, 1849. Printed by Buell & Blanchard. Uncut.

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1847

King, Preston, 1806-1865

Pamphlet

Title: The Wilmot Proviso: bill and explanation of Preston King, of New York, in the House of Representatives of the U.S., January 4 & 5, 1847.

Printed at the office of Blair and Rives. Apparently removed from previous binding.

GLC00267.372

1850

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Hon. Daniel Webster, on Mr. Clay's resolutions, in the Senate of the United States, March 7, 1850.

Printed by Gideon & Co. Original yellow wrapper. First pages uncut. Discusses slavery in the United States, pertaining to the Compromise of 1850.

GLC00267.375

1850

Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850

Pamphlet

Title: Address of the Hon. John C. Calhoun, in the Senate of the United States, on the subject of slavery.

Title page missing. Appears to have been removed from a larger volume. Calhoun's speech was read for him by James Mason, 4 March 1850. Argues that the power of legislating over California "is vested in Congress, and not, as is assumed, in the inhabitants of the territories."

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1850

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Pamphlet

Title: Correspondence between Mr. Webster and his New Hampshire neighbors

Published by Gideon & Co., Printers. Cover page is signed: "to S.B. Little, Esq., from C. P. Smith, Washington, D.C." Contains a letter of approbation from Webster's supporters in New Hampshire regarding his popular role as a defender of the Constitution. Includes Webster's reply.

GLC00267.377

1851

Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, on the "Measures of Adjustment," delivered in the City Hall, Chicago, October 23, 1850.

Printed by Gideon & Co., printers. Douglas discusses slavery and the Compromise of 1850. Appears to have been removed from previous binding.

GLC00267.378

1854

Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Hon. S. A. Douglas, of Illinois, in the Senate, January 30, 1854, on the Nebraska Territory.

Printed at the Sentinel Office. Disbound; original yellow cover visible on spine. "Is not the question involved the simple one, whether the people of the Territories shall be allowed to do as they please upon the question of slavery, subject only to the limitations of the Constitution? That is all the bill provides; and it does so in clear, explicit, and unequivocal terms."

GLC00267.379

1854

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

Pamphlet

Title: Maintain plighted faith: speech of Hon. S. P. Chase, of Ohio, in the Senate, February 3, 1854, against the repeal of the Missouri phohibition of slavery North of 36 30'.

Printed at the Congressional Globe Office. Removed from previous binding. Contains stab-stitching. Of the Missouri Prohibition, states, "...I believe that we are upon the verge of another era. That era will be the Era of REACTION... But you may pass it here... It may become law. But its effect will be to satisfy all thinking men that no compromises with slavery will stand, except so long as they serve the interests of slavery..."

GLC00267.380

1854

Smith, Truman, 1791-1884

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of the Hon. Truman Smith, of Connecticut, on the Nebraska question. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 10 and 11, 1854.

Printed by John T. and Lem. Towers. Original blue wrapper. "I have sometimes thought... that the North is in danger of being sold out, and that we are to be reduced to servitude. I can hardly believe we are in much danger. It is proper however for me to give full notice that if such an unhappy fate is before us I intend to reserve myself one liberty- that of choosing my own master, and I say now he shall be some high-toned Southern gentleman..."

GLC00267.381

1854

Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

Pamphlet

Title: Freedom and public faith: speech of William H. Seward, on the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise, in the Kansas and Nebraska bills.

Printed by Buell & Blanchard, printers. Removed from previous binding. Contains stamp "Withdrawn from Watkinson Library Trinity College." Argues "The general authority of Congress over the Territories is one wisely confided to the National Legislature, to save young and growing communities from the dangers which beset them in their state of pupilage, and to prevent them from adopting any policy that shall be at war with their own lasting interests..."

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