1864

White, Andrew D., fl. 1864

Pamphlet

Title: The Will of the People

Campaign booklet, including introduction from George Boker and the Union League.

GLC09101

18 October 1852

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J.J. Grindall

Discusses the Fugitive Slave Law and his failed bid for 1852 Democratic nomination: "It would be a strange spectacle indeed if the Slave-holding state most interested in the maintenance of faithful execution of the Fugitive Slave Law should yield her support & give her electoral vote to General Scott."

GLC09112

circa 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Broadside

Title: [Wartime excerpt from the Emancipation Proclamation].

Possibly used for dissemination by the United States military.

GLC08217

1792-1794

Header Record

Title: Three letters to George Washington [Decimalized .01-.03]

Discussing the prized jackass "Royal Gift," given him by the King of Spain. All docketed by Washington.

GLC09025

15 October 1792

Washington, William, fl. 1792-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George A. Washington

To Maj. George A. Washington, newphew of GW, with the President's autograph endorsement on verso. "I have often regretted that I made application to the President to send Royal Gift to this Country as his adherence to his promise prevented his disbursing him upon advantageous terms & the profits of covering have not been near so great as was expected ..."

GLC09025.01

20 April 1793

Washington, William, fl. 1792-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Washington

To President George Washington with his autograph endorsement on verso. "...Royal Gift has not ... entirely recovered from the effects of his journey to this country. He has been affected with a stiffness in his joints & a period of lameness ..."

GLC09025.02

1 June 1794

Washington, William, fl. 1792-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Washington

To President George Washington with his autograph endorsement on verso. "...I am now sorry to add that his situation at present is not better & am apprehensive that it never will."

GLC09025.03

1865

Broadside

Title: He Being Dead Yet Speaketh

Quotes Lincoln's statements on the Declaration of Independence, Lincoln-Douglas debates, and various sayings.

GLC09020

January 19, 1864

Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Senator J. M. Howard

Defends against accusations that he was "an opponent to the Lincoln admistration." States that he is against slavery, rumors of his disloyalty bear no truth, and are from "those who want to see me defeated ... I would, and do, favor a war of extermination. I would hang every human being who possesses a drop of rebel blood in their veins whether they be men, women, or children.

GLC09024

13 May 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Printed document signed

Title: [Orders to affix the seal to a letter for Peru's ad-interim President Pedro Diez Canseco]

Order to the Secretary of State. The letter offered condolences for deceased President San Roman and hopes for continued wisdom and success, guided by "the Supreme Ruler of the Universe."

GLC09064

circa March 1756

Manuscript letter

Title: Extract of a letter from Pennyslvania received by the pacquet, that came last from thence

Gives a report on the situation in America. Mentions Quakers and people who "also seem to think their ale is at stake." States that "Col. Washington is gone to New York..." possibly involved in the attack at Fort DuQuesne. Gilt edges. Watermarked with a crest, a symbol that looks like a 4 and the letters SCI.

GLC09054.15

25 June 1858

Newspaper

Title: New-York Semi-weekly Tribune.

Printing Lincoln's House Divided Speech, given on June 16th, at the Republican State Convention: "...'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free..." Also reporting on laying of the Transatlantic telegraph cable.

GLC09085

1880

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Tribute to Lincoln]

His tribute to Lincoln; the original manuscript published in Osborn H. Oldroyd's "The Lincoln Memorial: Album-Immortelles," in 1882, [page 265]. "A great man: Tender of heart, strong of nerve, of boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country. He could recieve [sic] counsel from a child and give counsel to a sage. The simple approached him with ease, and the learned approached him with deference. Take him for all in all, Abraham Lincoln was one of the noblest, wisest and best men I ever knew."

GLC09091

1872/05/23

Newspaper

Title: New-York times. [Vol. 21, no. 6451 (May 23, 1872)]

Election news.

GLC08725.12

Jaunary 31, 1818

Jay, John, 1745-1829

Autograph letter

Title: to John Adams

Marked copy. Written by Jay to Adams when both were in retirement. References Adams' letter of 9 January 1818. Mentions that his son and daughters just returned from a tour of New England and that they enjoyed the hospitality of Adams. Discusses assertions made by William Wirt in his new book (probably his 1817 biography of Patrick Henry). Wirt was making claims about the authorship of various revolutionary documents produced by the 1774 Continental Congress. Adams asked Jay for a correction of the record. Unsigned, except "Mr. Jay" in text. Quotes at length from journals of Congress. Docket…

GLC00015

[1866?]

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

Pamphlet

Title: The record of the Democratic Party [election campaign]

An anti-Democratic Party election pamphlet. With original paper wrappers.

GLC08445.05

1864/09/19 ca.

Holmes, David S., 1827-1904

Broadside

Title: Benedict Arnold & Horatio Seymour! ... Who is to be president? [election]

Election-relation broadside attacking Seymour and attempting to link him to the 1863 draft riots in New York City.

GLC06813

1868/06/22

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

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: John L. Martin.

Democratic nomination and political beliefs.

GLC07919