August 1794

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Draft introductory letter to French government]

Written by Monroe as American Minister to France, shortly after his arrival in the republic in August 1794. He replaced Gouverneur Morris. A draft of his introductory letter presenting his credentials and affirming his "profound interest which the government and people of America take in the success and prosperity of the French Republic." Expresses extreme pleasure with his assignment and expects relations between the two nations to improve.

GLC06326

11 May 1780

Wyllys, George, 1710-1796

Broadside

Title: [Connecticut policy toward enlisting men in Continental army]

Discusses the tax benefits of those towns having reached a quota of enlisted residents and the responsibilities of those persons who have not yet enlisted.

GLC06347

10 March 1864

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

Autograph quotation signed

Title: [Sentiments expressing Andrew's wish to see the end of slavery]

Andrew, Governor of Massachusetts, writes, "May the Sun of 1864 see the last fetter fall from the limb of the last slave in Maryland." Written on Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Department stationery.

GLC06352.01

22 April 1852

Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

Document signed

Title: [Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of Johanna Foley, alias Johanna O'Conne, convicted of bigamy].

GLC06048

February 13, 1815

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: Resolutions reported by the military committee, expressive of the high sense entertained by Congress, of the patriotism and good conduct of the people of Louisiana and New Orleans, during the late military operations before that city.

Published by Roger Chew Weightman, congressional printer. States that Senator William Branch Giles, a member of the committee on military affairs, read the included resolutions, expressing the patriotism of Louisiana citizens in the Battle of New Orleans. Praises New Orleans citizens for offering accommodation to their own and enemy soldiers. States that President James Madison will be requested to inform William Charles C. Claiborne, Governor of Louisiana, of the meritorious conduct of New Orleans citizens.

GLC06078

1879

Pamphlet

Pamphlet

Title: Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report to accompany bill S. Res. 12.

Committee rejection of a proposed amendment that would have granted women the right to vote, issued as Senate Report No. 523 (45th Congress, 3rd Session). Collateral with this is the minority report in support of the proposed amendment, with title that reads "Mr. Hoar, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following as the views of the minority (to accompany the foregoing report)."

GLC06081

12 August 1899

McKinley, William, 1843-1901

Document signed

Title: [Presidential pardon of Charles Anderson, who was covicted of selling liquor to Indians]

Anderson was pardoned by McKinley. Countersigned by James E. Bayard, acting Attorney General. includes seal.

GLC06105

29 June 1864

Joy, George, fl. 1785-1795

Newspaper

Title: North Carolina times. [Vol. 1, no. 47 (June 29, 1864)]

Union-occupation newspaper. Masthead motto reads "Liberty and Union - Now and Forever - One and Inseparable." Front page prints recently passed U.S. laws, including acts to provide trials for minor offences and to incorporate homes for women and children. Editorial titled "The Doomed City" describes events in Virginia and details the state's transgressions, including its endorsement of the massacre of colored troops at Fort Pillow. Describes the late reconnaissance toward Kinston. "Affairs About Petersburg." Interesting reminiscence about George Washington's last vote. Ink manuscript notes…

GLC06107.14

19 April 1861

Broadside

Title: Herald extra

Reports on various events related to the 19 April 1861 Baltimore Riot, during which secessionists attacked Union soldiers passing through the city. Headlines announce "Governor Hicks Yielding" and "Massachusetts Regiment Reach Washington!" Referring to Maryland Governor Thomas Holliday Hicks, states "Hicks was sent for and said he was opposed to secession but the right of revolution could not be disputed. It was folly to attempt to subjugate the South." Cites another dispatch from Baltimore stating " 'We hope the north will stand by us and in their forced passage through our city to the…

GLC06107.39

circa 1813

Forten, James, 1766-1842

Pamphlet

Title: Letters from a man of colour, on a late bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania.

An eloquent response to a bill in the Pennsylvania senate to stop the emigration of people of color into the state. Forten wrote anonymously, signing his letters "A Man of Colour." Five letters respond to the Pennsylvania bill, arguing that Pennsylvania has been a refuge for emancipated Black people have unalienable rights set forth in the Declaration of Independence, which are protected by the Constitution. Forten writes, "The dog is protected and pampered at the board of his master, while the poor African and his descendant, whether a Saint or a felon, is branded with infamy, registered…

GLC06046

18 September 1786

Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824

Document signed

Title: [Congressional resolution requiring that taxes be paid in specie].

Printed resolution of the Continental Congress that requires the states, Rhode Island and New Jersey in particular, to make payments on requisitions in specie and not in the paper currency issued by the state. Signed as Secretary of the Continental Congress.

GLC06047

1798, 1799, 1807

Dallas, Alexander James, 1759-1817

Header Record

Title: Reports of cases ruled and adjudged in the several courts of the United States, and of Pennsylvania : held at the seat of the federal government

Official printed record of the first ten years of the Supreme Court, volumes 2, 3 and 4. Printed for the reporter at the Aurora Office, Philadelphia. Volume 3 printed by J. Ormrod. Volume 4 printed by Fry and Kammerer. Each volume starts out with a table of the cases heard.

GLC06049

1 August 1792

Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Laws of Northwest Territory

Sargent also signed the names of John Cleves Symmes and Rufus Putnam, as judges of the North West Territory. Details three acts establishing laws for the territory. The first act concerns granting licenses to merchants, traders, and tavern keepers. The second act covers opening and regulating highways, and the third act examines taxes.

GLC06050

1860

Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920

Book

Title: Lives and speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin.

Contains life of Lincoln by W. D. Howells and life of Hamlin by John L. Hayes. Published in New York by W.A. Townsend & Co., and in Columbus, Ohio by Follett, Foster & Co. Illustrated with portraits and image of Chicago Republican wigwam.

GLC06057

25 June 1862

Shober, William A., fl. 1862

Newspaper

Title: Quincy semi-weekly dispatch [Vol. 2, no. 1 (June 25, 1862)]

Necessity newspaper from Florida, with accounts of J.E.B. Stewart's ride around McClellan's army, Benjamin Butler's atrocities in New Orleans, Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, also discussion of an "Emancipation Measure" on page 4. Mentions that Jubal Early was made a major general and that Abraham Lincoln visited Fredericksburg. Includes the latest news by telegram on page 2-3 as well as a call for volunteers for a partisan group. Page 4 has an article titled "Who is 'Gov.' Johnson?" which provides a short biography of Andrew Johnson. Advertisements on last two pages. Signature…

GLC06063

12 August 1876

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Pamphlet

Title: Letters of Col. Mosby and John Tyler Jr.

Reprints a letter from Mosby to a former confederate comrade in reply to one urging him to support the democratic candidate in the presidential election of 1876, Samuel Tilden. Mosby writes that he will support Republicans Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler. "I thought you knew that I ceased to be a Confederate soldier about eleven years ago, and became a citizen of the United States... the reconstruction measures necessarily divided parties in the South on a color line, for the issue they presented was the political equality of the races." Also includes a letter entitled, "An…

GLC06076

14 April 1869

Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904

Pamphlet

Title: Women's right and the public welfare.

Title continues: "Remarks of Hon. George F. Hoar before a Joint Special Committee of the Massachusetts legislature, April 14, 1869." "I have failed to think of a single reason which I can give why you or I should have the right of suffrage which does not include women." Woman's suffrage tracts, No. 6.

GLC06082

1797

Irvine, William, 1741-1804

Book signed

Title: View of the conduct of the Executive, in foreign affairs....

Written by James Monroe. Printed by Benjamin Franklin Bache. "View of the conduct of the Executive, in foreign affairs, of the United States, connected with the mission to the French Republic... 1794, 5 & 6." In original paper boards with contemporary inscription "Monroe" on spine. Signed by Irvine on p.iii.

GLC06085

24 May 1884

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alfred

Discusses his finances. Mentions that he is building two houses in St. Louis and another in Illinois. Writes about his determination to stay out of politics and Ulysses S. Grant's financial troubles. "Every day's development of the Grant affair makes [me] more and more content with myself in having resisted every temptation to embark on speculation... As to the politics I am equally content. In war the country may command my service -- in peace no... I would see Tilden, Jeff Davis or the Devil President -- all about alike -- before I would subject myself to the torture." Docketed on top…

GLC06088

1860

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Photograph

Title: Oval salt print photograph as Governor at the age of 67

GLC06092

1788

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Document

Title: Convention between his most Christian majesty and the United States of America

[Title continued] "For the Purpose of Defining and Establishing the Functions and Privileges of their Respective Consuls and Vice Consuls." Agreement between France and the U.S. With stamp of New Jersey Historical Society. Printed the convention in two columns. Docket on blank. Said to have been printed by Des Pierres.

GLC06093

30 March 1866

Stone, William M., 1827-1893

Document signed

Title: [Iowa joint resolution, ratifying the 13th Amendment to the Constitution]

Document of the eleventh General Assembly of the State of Iowa ratifying the 13th amendment to the Constitution of the United States which abolished slavery. Parchment document, with green state seal. Signed in ink by Iowa's Governor, William M. Stone, Speaker of the House, President of the Senate, and Secretary of State. The names of the members of the house and senate who voted in affirmative are printed at left. Printed by F. W. Palmer, state printer, register office, Des Moines. With a few small engravings depicting allegorical symbols of liberty and other patriotic images.

GLC06098

1864

National Union Executive Committee

Broadside

Title: How the war commenced, and how near it is ended.

Campaign broadside that includes a map showing the expansion of Union military control in the South. Includes paragraphs headed "Who commenced the War?" and "Have we made any Progress in Crushing the Rebellion?" The text underneath the map attacks the Peace Democrats by demonstrating that the rebels started the war, and that the current administration has made considerable progress. It cites numerous figures to prove the progress. Asserts that, "To-day not a rebel foot-step profanes the soil of the Loyal States, except that of a prisoner of war." Published by the National Union Executive…

GLC06100

26 July 1864

Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

Newspaper

Title: Knoxville tri-weekly whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (July 26, 1864)]

Reports capture of Atlanta by Sherman, opposition to granting "open & avowed" Rebels the right to vote in upcoming election, death of General Faulkner & Colonel Forrest, defeat of General Forrest, affirmation of Lincoln's handling of the war.

GLC06107.04

9 July 1864

Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877

Newspaper

Title: Brownlow's Knoxville whig and rebel ventilator. [Vol. 1, no. 27 (July 9, 1864)]

Colored troops in Union and Confederate armies, includes information on the death of General Polk, a campaign ad for Lincoln's election, anti-equality and anti-emancipation articles, John Morgan's raid into Kentucky, Sherman's orders to shoot any and all stragglers who fall behind.

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