May 11, 1821

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dr. David Hosack

The letter is free franked. Jefferson thanks Hosack for a paper on Nosology, or classification of diseases, a topic that might have interested a man of science like Jefferson, since classification might help find cures. He soon turns to the exciting news of a revolution in Naples which, he writes "secures the efforts of Spain & Portugal, and must cheer the mind of every man of Philanthropy with the prospect it holds up of the extension of representative government to the whole continent of Europe except Russia which too in the end will become capable of it. In what a glorious station does…

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October 8, 1819

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Monroe

Recommends Crittenden, acting Governor of the Arkansas Territory, to President Monroe for an unidentified post. Refers to an enclosed letter from Crittenden (not included).

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1846

Palfrey, John G., 1796-1881

Pamphlet

Title: Papers on the slave power, first published in the "Boston Whig."

Signed on title page by John Day Putnam. Printed by Merrill, Cobb & Co., Boston, Massachusetts. Papers numbered 1-24 argue against slavery by discussing its place in the constitution, the North's role in it, the consequences of overthrowing it, and what the free states, especially Massachusetts, should do about it, among other issues.

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1858

Weston, George M., 1816-1887

Pamphlet

Title: The Progress of slavery in the United States.

Describes the past progress of slavery and considers circumstances that will control the slavery movement in the future. Argues that the growing slave population in the U.S. was an intended result of the territorial expansion of slavery dictated by the interests of those that own and breed slaves. Curbing its expansion will be beneficial to the Southern states.

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February 2, 1846

Chappell, Absalom Harris, 1801-1878

Printed document

Title: Resolutions of the legislature of Georgia

[Title continued] in opposition to the principles of certain resolves of the legislature of Massachusetts in relation to an amendment of the constitution on the subject of federal representation. Copy of a resolution by the Georgia Legislature, printed for the twenty ninth Congress. The resolution is in opposition to a call by the Massachusetts legislature to repeal the three fifths voting clause of the Constitution. Likely printed in Washington, D.C. First edition.

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1832

United States. Census Office. 5th census, 1830

Pamphlet

Title: Abstract of the returns of the fifth census, showing the number of free people, the number of slaves...

Title continues "...the federal or representative number, and the aggregate of each county of each state of the United States." 22nd Congress, 1st session, Doc no. 263. Printed by Duff Green, Washington, D.C.

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January 11, 1828

South Carolina General Assembly, Senate

Pamphlet

Title: Report of a special committee of the Senate of South Carolina on the Resolution submitted by Mr. Ramsay on the Subject of State Rights.

Marked 20th Congress, 1st Session. Printed by Duff Green. Report of a committee formed to inquire into the various issues of states' rights, the Constitution, and the power of the federal government within the states. The report supports states' rights and promotes a strict constructivist position opposing tariffs and improvements within particular states that are not for the common defense. First edition.

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January 16, 1833

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Pamphlet

Title: State of the Union. Message from the President of the United States, on the state of the Union.

House document no. 45, 22nd Congress, 2nd session. Transmits all the relevant documents relating to the South Carolina nullification controversy. First edition. Uncut.

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06 April 1836

United States. Congress (24th, 1st session : 1835-1836). House

Printed document

Title: Amend the Constitution of the United States

[Title continued] memorial of citizens of North Carolina, upon the subject of amending the Constitution of the United States.Twenty seven petitioners request: "In case that any State in the Union, either by the Legislature thereof, or by a convention chosen by the people of the same, shall solemnly declare their belief that any act which is or may be passed by both houses of Congress and approved by the President of the United States, is unconstitutional, the said State, by their Legislature or convention, shall make up a case, containing the grounds of their belief of its unconstitutionality…

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1837

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

Header Record

Title: [Two senate motions] [Decimalized .01-.02]

Two motions, one submitted by John C. Calhoun and one by John Norvell. Calhoun's resolution is well-known for establishing the orthodox state rights position. In his resolution, Norvell, the Democratic-Republican Senator from Michigan, agrees with Calhoun.

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20 May 1846

Michigan, Legislature

Pamphlet

Title: Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan relative to leasing of the mineral lands.

House document no. 204. 29th Congress, 1st session. Discusses Michigan state rights. Denies the right of the federal government to lease federal mineral lands if the state where the lands are located is opposed to it. Includes report of Flavius J. Littlejohn of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate of Michigan "in relation to the sovereign right of Michigan to the mines and minerals within her borders."

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December 2, 1817

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President of the United States, to both houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the fifteenth Congress.

Monroe reports that Amelia Island, near the Georgia boundary, had been seized and was "being made a channel for the illicit introduction of slaves from Africa into the United States, an asylum for fugitive slaves from the neighboring states, and a port of smuggling of every kind." He calls for its suppression. Printed by Edward De Krafft, Printer, Washington City.

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January 10,1818

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the Committee to whom was referred so much of the President's Message as relates to the introduction of slaves from Amelia Island.

The report reflects the early distaste for the slave trade in the U.S. House Document 46, 15th Congress, 1st session. Accompanied with a bill supplementary to the act, to prohibit the importation of enslaved people into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States: passed 2d March 1807. Endpaper states: "The first copy of this report being incorrectly printed, is to be cancelled, and this copy substituted." First edition (thus).

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26 March 1818

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President of the United States ... relating to the occupation of Amelia Island.

Full title reads, "Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 20th instant, information, not heretofore communicated, relating to the occupation of Amelia Island." House Document 175. Printed by E. De Krafft. Amelia Island is an island off the coast of Florida that was under Spanish control before being occupied.

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December 7, 1824

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President of the United States, to both houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress.

Describes the joint efforts of the U.S. and Britain to suppress the slave trade, which the Monroe administration proposed to define as piracy. Also discusses the rights of U.S. vessels during recent wars. Document no. 2. Printed by Gales & Seaton. Stitched.

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December 27, 1825

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Pamphlet

Title: Slave Trade. Message from the President of the United States, communicating correspondence with Great Britain in relation to the Convention for suppressing the slave trade.

Relating to the convention for the suppression of the slave trade. House Executive Document 16, 19th Congress, 1st session, Document no. 16. Secretary of State Clay advises the British that the Senate will not agree to British right of search along American coastal waters. Printed by Gales & Seaton.

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1830

Mercer, Charles Fenton, 1778-1858

Pamphlet

Title: Slave trade.

Mercer reports for "the committee to whom were referred the memorial of the American Society for colonizing the free people of color of the United States; also, sundry memorials from the inhabitants of the State of Kentucky, and a memorial from certain free people of color of the State of Ohio..." The bulk of the report consists of appendices on the American Colonization Society, Liberia and material from earlier Congresses relating to the slave trade and colonization. 21st Congress, 1st session, House Doc. 348. Removed from previous binding; cover is missing.

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27 May 1840

Society of Friends

Pamphlet

Title: Memorial of the Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, praying the adoption of measures for the suppression of the African slavetrade.

Message to Congress emphasizing the "horror and brutality of the middle passage." The memorial states that the trade is being "prosecuted to a greater extent, and in a manner more destructive to its victims, than it ever was before." 26 Congress, 1st session, document no. 491. Printed by Blair & Rives.

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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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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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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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