1862

Wade, B.F., 1800-1878

Pamphlet

Title: Conduct of the war

Senate report from the "joint committee on the conduct of the present war" regarding Confederate indiscretions at Manassas. Committee was directed to "Collect evidence with regard to the barbarous treatment by the rebels, at Manassas, of the remains of officers and soldiers...and... whether the Indian savages have been employed by the rebels, in their military service." Contains the witness testimony of soldiers, surgeons, and officials, describing numerous atrocities committed by rebels against dead and wounded soldiers. Wade's summary states "Inhumanity to the living has been the leading…

GLC00267.234

1896

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: Dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park

Created by the Joint committee on dedication of Chickamauga and Chattanooga national military park and compiled by H.V. Boynton. Printed by the Government Printing Office by order of the Senate in the 54th Congress. The military park was created to commemorate the 1863 battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga. Report No. 637.

GLC00267.239

12 March 1866

State of Missouri

Pamphlet

Title: Statement in reference to the claim of the state of Missouri for expenses incurred in the support of her militia during the war

Report of the expenses of the Missouri militia during the Civil War submitted by the state to the House of Representatives. Contains a combination of correspondence on expenditures and charts detailing costs. Dated from the date the report was ordered to be printed. Cover appears to be missing, or the pages were pulled from a larger book.

GLC00267.241

14 May 1888

Stewart, William Morris, 1827-1909

Pamphlet

Title: [Claims of the state of Nevada]

Report submitted by William Stewart, Senator from Nevada and a member of the Committee on Military Affairs, to the Senate as a whole. Requests repayment of money spent during the Civil War by the territorial government of Nevada. Says most of the money was spent on troops to protect the route between Salt Lake City and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Indian raids and the suspect loyalty of the Mormons necessitated the mustering of the militia. Consists of various correspondence pertaining to the claims as well as various charts and tabulations of money spent in the 1860s. Dated from the date the…

GLC00267.242

1859

Fitch, Graham N. (Graham Newell), 1809-1892

Pamphlet

Title: [Speech by Senator Fitch regarding the admission of Kansas into the Union]

Delivered at Indianapolis 6 January 1859. Uncut.

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1859

Curtis, George Ticknor, 1812-1894

Pamphlet

Title: The just supremacy of Congress over the territories: intended as an answer to the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, on popular sovereignty.

Published by A. Williams and Company.

GLC00267.177

1843

Abell, Alexander Gurdon, 1819-1890

Pamphlet

Title: Life of John Tyler, president of the United States, up to the close of the second session of the twenty-seventh congress:...

Title continues: ...including some of his most important speeches while a member of the House of Representatives and the of the Senate of the United States, and his principal messages and other public papers as chief magistrate of the union. A collection of the speeches and public papers of John Tyler. Cover includes a quote from Shakespeare: "According to his virtue let us use him." Also includes the following in Latin: "Magna est veriras et praevalebit." Engraved portrait of Tyler opposite the title page. Engraved by A. L. Dick from a daguerreotype miniature by A. Morand. Printed…

GLC00267.183

1850

O'Conor, Charles, 1804-1884

Pamphlet

Title: Dinner to the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson at Tammany Hall, as a tribute of respect, by the Democracy, of the Counties of New York, Westchester, Kings, Queens and Richmond...

(title continues)...and his reception by the municipal authorities of the city, on the 17th of June, 1850. Printed at the office of the New York Daily Globe. O'Conor, a prominent New York attorney, served as President of the function. Includes a speech by Dickinson, United States Senator from New York 1844-1851. Also includes volunteer toasts offered by those attending, and letters of apology from persons unable to attend (including Lewis Cass, James Buchanan, Isaac Toucey, and others). Also includes a menu.

GLC00267.186

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…

GLC00267.200

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.

GLC00267.205

1863

United States. Congress

Book

Title: Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, In answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 10th instant, a copy of Major General Rosecrans's report of the Battle of Murfreesboro', or Stone River, Tennessee.

Cover is missing. Contains a report transmitted to the Senate by Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, concerning the Battle of Stones River, or Murfreesboro. Comprises the full report of the battle, issued by General William Starke Rosecrans. Among other topics, contains reports of the Chief of Artillery, the chief quartermaster, and the chief commissary of subsistence; a list of officers who distinguished themselves during the battle; fold-out battle field maps; a report on flags captured during battle, and a percentage of losses in brigades, division, and corps.

GLC00267.330

1867

Wilson, James Harrison, 1837-1925

Printed document

Title: [Report on the capture of Jefferson Davis] [SED 13]

Published by the 39th Congress, 2d Session and marked Ex. Doc. No. 13. Prints a letter by Secretary of War Edward M. Stanton introducing Major General J.H. Wilson's report on Davis's capture. The report is composed of several letters from the pursuit of Davis in May 1865. The Confederate president was apprehended in Georgia on 10 May 1865.

GLC00267.349

1864

United States. Senate.

Book

Title: Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 26th ultimo, correspondence with the rebel authorities in relation to the exchange of prisoners.

38th Congress, 1st session. Executive Document no. 17. Documents concerning exchange of prisoners of war.

GLC00267.353

1865

United States. Congress. House

Pamphlet

Title: Exchange of prisoners. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of 21st December last, relative to the exchange of prisoners of war.

House of Representatives, 38th Congress, 2nd session, Executive Document no. 32.

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1864

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: House of Representatives. Report # 67. Returned Prisoners.

38th Congress, 1st session. Signed by W. L. Ransom. Report made by Daniel Gooch of the Joint Committee on the Conduct and Expenditures of the War. Describes in detail the harsh treatment endured by prisoners of war and the destitute condition of the returned Union prisoners: "The evidence proves, beyond all manner of doubt, a determination on the part of the rebel authorities, ... to subject those of our soldiers who have been so unfortunate as to fall in their hands to a system of treatment which has resulted in reducing many of those who have survived and been permitted to return to us…

GLC00267.358

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.

GLC00267.371

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."

GLC00267.376

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..."

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