1854

Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Hon. S. A. Douglas, of Illinois, in the Senate, January 30, 1853, on the Nebraska Territory.

Printed at the Sentinel Office. Fragile. Bound with string.

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1856

New England Emigrant Aid Company

Pamphlet

Title: Memorial of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, praying indemnification for the destruction of property, at Lawrence, Kansas, May 21, 1856.

37th Congress, 3d Session, Senate. Mis. Doc. No. 29. Offers eye-witness accounts of the sack of Lawrence, Kansas, including an account submitted by William Hutchinson, secretary of the Kansas Central Committee and a special correspondent for the New York Times.

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1856

Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the committee on territories, on "A bill to authorize the people of the territory of Kansas to form a constitution and state government...

(title continues)... preparatory to their admission into the Union, when they have the requisite population," etc. Also, the views of the minority of said committee. 34th Congress, 1st Session, Senate. Published by A. O. P. Nicholson, Senate printer. Uncut and unopened. Rep. Com. No. 198. Presented by Senator Stephen Douglas. Minority report presented by Jacob Collamer.

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1857

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Pamphlet

Title: [Message of the President of the United States regarding Kansas]

President Buchanan submits a report of Lewis Cass, Secretary of State, with other correspondence and documents related to the Kansas Territory. Contains correspondence of Robert John Walker, Governor of Kansas Territory, among others. 35th Congress, 1st session, Senate. Ex. Doc. No. 8. Concludes with Cass's reply to Walker's resignation.

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1858

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Pamphlet

Title: Message of the President of the United States, communicating a constitution for Kansas as a State, and presenting his views in relation to the affairs of that Territory.

United States 35th Congress, 1st session, Executive Document no. 21, Senate. Second half of pamphlet includes a proposed constitution for the state of Kansas. Article VII, on slavery, states "The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same, and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever."

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1858

Green, James S., 1817-1870

Pamphlet

Title: [Senate report to accompany bill 161, including the Lecompton Constitution]

35th Congress, 1st session, Senate. Rep. Com. No. 82. Opens with a report submitted by Senator Green from the Committee on Territories. Includes a Constitution for Kansas, submitted by John Calhoun, President of the Kansas Constitutional Convention (this constitution is known as the Lecompton Constitution, intended to admit Kansas into the Union as a slave state). Includes the minority report, submitted by Senator Stephen Douglas, who states, "there is no satisfactory evidence that the constitution formed at Lecompton is the act and deed of the people of Kansas, or that it embodies their…

GLC00267.169

1848

Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Hon. Horace Mann, on the right of Congress to legislate for the territories of the United States, and its duty to exclude slavery therefrom:

First Boston edition, with an added letter from Hon. Martin Van Buren, a free soiler, and Rev. Joshua Leavitt. Opposes the Mexican War and the extension of slavery. Delivered in the House of Representatives on 30 June 1848. Printed in Boston by J. Howe.

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1849

Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875

Pamphlet

Title: Mr. Upham's speech on the extension of slavery: together with the ordinance of 1787.

Opposes the extension of slavery and argues that it compromises the Constitution. Delivered in the House of Representatives 20 February 1849. Printed at the Tri-weekly gazette office in Salem, Massachusetts.

GLC00267.129

1850

Stuart, Moses, 1780-1852

Pamphlet

Title: Conscience and the constitution with remarks on the recent speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster on the subject of slavery.

Published by Crocker & Brewster. Stuart discusses the problems of ending slavery. In closing, writes "The last thing I have to say, is, to ask the question, whether it would not be a feasible thing, and the best thing we can do, to colonize the blacks, as we have the Indians? Let them have a Territory and a government of their own, we being merely watchful guardians over their welfare and safety, and for a while reserving the ultimate control of important measures, until they attain to a state in which they will be competent to take care of themselves." Front cover is detached from…

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1850

Clark, Rufus Wheelwright, 1813-1886

Pamphlet

Title: A Review of the Rev. Moses Stuart's pamphlet on slavery, entitled conscience and the Constitution.

Published by C. C. P. Moody. Clark, pastor of the North Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, rebuts Stuart's argument regarding slavery (Stuart argued for colonization; refer to GLC00267.138). In closing, writes "...notwithstanding the strong efforts that are made to sustain and to extend American slavery... this system is doomed ere long to fall." Calls the Fugitive Slave Bill "the most extraordinary, disgraceful, and atrocious, that was ever recorded upon the statute books of this nation." Stuart's pamphlet had been a reply to a speech by Senator Daniel Webster. Contains slight water…

GLC00267.139

1850

Spencer, Ichabod S. (Ichabod Smith), 1798-1854

Pamphlet

Title: Fugitive slave law. The religious duty of obedience to law: a sermon, preached in the Second Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, Nov. 24, 1850.

Published by M. W. Dodd. Argues against resistance to government and law, and upholds citizens' religious duty to obey the law. Writes, "I am not justifying slavery... I am not justifying the fugitive-slave Law. It may be wrong: it may be unwise and unconstitutional... But, be it wrong- be it unwise and unconstitutional; there are civil courts to decide upon its constitutionality, and no man has any right to decide for himself that it is unconstitutional, and act upon that decision..."

GLC00267.141

1850

Thompson, Joseph Parrish, 1819-1879

Pamphlet

Title: The fugitive slave law; tried by the Old and New Testaments.

Argues against obeying laws from the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1850. Published by William Harned, New York, printed by B. L. Hamlen, New Haven, Connecticut. Reprinted from the New Englander for November 1850. Thompson was the pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church.

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January 9, 1851

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874

Printed document

Title: Anti-fugitive slave law meeting: at a large meeting of persons from various parts of the state of New York, held in the City of Syracuse January 9th 1851...

[Title continued] and of which Frederick Douglass was president, the following resolutions and address were unanimously adopted. The Address is the same, and, with an inconsiderable exception, the Resolutions are the same, as those, which were reported by Gerrit Smith to the State Convention held in said City, January 7th, 8th, 9th, 1851. Previous documentation suggests this is a first edition. Place of publication is not cited.

GLC00267.143

1851

Pamphlet

Title: The South Bend fugitive slave case, involving the right to a writ of habeas corpus.

Reports on the legal case of Norris vs. Newton. Case pertains to an enslaved person seeking emancipation. Marked for sale at the Anti-slavery office, 48 Beekman Street, 1851.

GLC00267.144

1852

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Pamphlet

Title: Freedom national, slavery sectional: Mr. Sumner's speech for the repeal of the fugitive slave bill.

Published by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields.

GLC00267.147

1854

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Pamphlet

Title: Defence of Massachusetts. Speeches of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Boston memorial for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Bill, ...

Title continues, "... and in reply to Messrs. Jones of Tennessee, Butler of South Carolina, and Mason of Virginia." Delivered in the Senate of the U.S. 26 and 28 June 1854. Printed by Buell & Blanchard.

GLC00267.148

1855

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Pamphlet signed

Title: Argument of Wendell Phillips, Esq. before the Committee on Federal Relations, (of the Massachusetts Legislature,) ...

Title continues "... in support of the petitions for the removal of Edward Greely Loring from the office of Judge of Probate." Inscribed with the initials W.P. to Albert G. Brown. Calls for the removal of Massachusetts probate Judge Loring because he ordered two fugitive slaves to be forced back into slavery under the federal Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Printed by J.B. Yerrinton & Son, Boston. Albert Gallatin Brown was a Democratic senator from Mississippi.

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5 March 1855

Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882

Pamphlet

Title: Remarks of Richard H. Dana, Jr. Esq. before the Committee on Federal Relations on the proposed removal of Edward G. Loring, Esq. from the Office of Judge of Probate.

Dana, despite being an antislavery man, opposes the removal of Loring from his position as a Massachusetts probate judge. Printed in Boston by Alfred Mudge & Son.

GLC00267.150

1856

Stevens, Charles Emery, 1815-1893

Book

Title: Anthony Burns: a history.

Published by John P. Jewett and Company. Illustrated with "drawings made on the spot" pertaining to the arrest of Anthony Burns in Boston. Stevens offers an "account of the early life of Burns, of his arrest, of his voyage back to Virginia, of his imprisonment, and of his sojourn in North Carolina...." Also analyzes how Burns's case contradicts the ancient laws of Massachusetts.

GLC00267.152

1859

Shipherd, Jacob R. (Jacob Rudd), 1836-1905

Pamphlet

Title: History of the Oberlin-Wellington rescue.

Published by John P. Jewett and Company. Also published in Cleveland, Ohio, by Henry P. B. Jewett, and in New York City by Sheldon and Company.

GLC00267.153

1854

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Pamphlet

Title: The landmark of freedom. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner against the repeal of the Missouri prohibition of slavery north of 36 30'.

Published by John P. Jewett and Company. Published in Cleveland, Ohio, by Jewett, Proctor, and Worthington. Contains a Burnham Brothers College, School, and Library imprint on front cover. Bound with string. Pages are gilt-edged.

GLC00267.157

1855

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874

Pamphlet

Title: Controversy between New-York Tribune and Gerrit Smith.

Printed by John A. Gray. Smith, a United States Representative 1853-1854, had been accused of missing an important vote on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill. Claiming previous misrepresentation in the Tribune, argues that he voted against the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which he calls the "Nebraska bill."

GLC00267.158

1856

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Pamphlet

Title: Last three speeches on Kansas and freedom.

Published by Higgins and Bradley. Includes "Origination of Appropriation Bills" (delivered 7 February), "The Abrogation of Treaties" (delivered 6 March), and "The Crime Against Kansas. The Apologies for the Crime. The True Remedy" (19 and 20 May 1856). In "The Crime Against Kansas," Sumner declares the testimony of Emigrant Aid Company false (refer to GLC00267.159).

GLC00267.162

1856

Fisher, Sidney George, 1809-1871

Pamphlet

Title: Kanzas and the Constitution.

Printed by Damrell & Moore. Written by "Cecil," a pseudonym of Sidney G. Fisher. First published in the Philadelphia North American 31 July 1856, and copied into the Boston Daily Advertiser 18 August 1856.

GLC00267.164

1856

Parker, Joel, 1816-1888

Pamphlet

Title: The true issue, and the duty of the Whigs: an address before the citizens of Cambridge, October 1, 1856.

Also titled "An Address before the Citizens of Cambridge." Printed by James Munroe and Company.

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