January 15, 1849

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the Committee on the Judiciary with the views of the minority of that committee on bill S. 350, for the admission of California into the Union as a state

Two reports against the case for admitting California to the Union, dealing with states' rights and federal jurisdiction. Berrien feels that the territory acquired in the treaty with Mexico is too large for a single state, and ponders the inevitable problems that would arise. Resolves that a territorial government be established for the part of California west of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and for the territory of New Mexico west of the western boundary of Texas. Downs is concerned with the administration of California. Calls for a convention to draw up laws, and resolves that a district…

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1850

King, T. Butler, 1800-1864

Book

Title: T. Butler King's report on California...

Title continues "Message from the President of the United States Title continues "Message from the President of the United States transmitting the report of T. Butler King, esq., heretofore appointed bearer of despatches and special agent to California." Butler describes at length the changes resulting in California from the Gold Rush, such as: how gold was discovered, how much has been mined, how many people migrated, and what has happened since. Discusses the economic possibilities and the sharing of California's wealth with the rest of the United States. Mentions a possible railroad…

GLC00267.132

1850

Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850

Book

Title: California and New Mexico. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting information in answer to a resolution of the House...

(title continues)... of the 31st of December, 1849, on the subject of California and New Mexico. House Executive Document No. 17. Includes six fold-out maps, which appear to be in brittle condition. Opens with a message from President Zachary Taylor, concerning California: "...Any attempt to deny to the people of the State the right of self-government in a matter which peculiarly affects themselves, will infallibly be regarded by them as an invasion of their rights; and, upon the principles laid down in our own Declaration of Independence, they will certainly be sustained by the great mass…

GLC00267.133

February 13, 1850

Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President communicating a copy of The Constitution of California

A copy of the first Constitution of California was given to President Zachary Taylor by California Senator William M. Gwin. Articles signed by R. Semple, President of the Convention and Delegate from Benicia. The first Constitution of California was adopted on November 13, 1849. Taylor transmitted the Constitution of California to the United States Senate on February 13, 1850. California wasn't admitted to the Union until September 9, 1850. California currently operates under a constitution adopted in 1879. Senate Ex. Doc 28.

GLC00267.134

1850

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Pamphlet

Title: Remarks of Mr. Clay of Kentucky, on introducing his propositions to compromise on the slavery question.

Delivered in the Senate of the United States, 29 January 1850. Proposes an amicable arrangement to the controversies between the free and slave states on the issue of the extension of slavery. Printed by Jno. T. Towers, Washington, D.C.

GLC00267.135

February 11, 1862

New Jersey Legislature

Printed document

Title: Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey in favor of the Compromise measures.

32nd Congress, 1st session, House of Representatives document no. 13. Resolves to support the compromise measures passed by Congress addressing slavery and the boundaries of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War.

GLC00267.145.01

1852

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Pamphlet

Title: Freedom national; Slavery sectional. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on his motion to repeal the Fugitive Slave Bill.

Delivered in the Senate of the United States 26 August 1852. Sumner attacks the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act and calls for its repeal. Printed by Buell & Blanchard.

GLC00267.146

1864

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Pamphlet

Title: [Report submitted by Senator Charles Sumner calling for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850]

Sumner, a United States Senator from Massachusetts, also asks for "the repeal of all acts for the rendition of fugitive slaves..." Report intended to accompany bill No. 141. Also includes a minority report, submitted 1 March 1864 by Senators John Carlile and Charles R. Buckalew, opposing the repeal of laws under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Report no. 24. 38th Congress, 1st session.

GLC00267.155

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.

GLC00267.156

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.

GLC00267.163

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.

GLC00267.167

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."

GLC00267.168

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.

GLC00267.121

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

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

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

1823-1824

United States. Congress (18th, 1st session : 1823-1824). Senate

Book

Title: A list of reports to be made to the House of Representatives at the first session of the eighteenth Congress by the executive departments

Book of reports and state papers sent to the 1st session of the 18th Congress. Each report or group of papers is paginated separately. Contains first printing of Monroe Doctrine (report #2), which is 15 pages long. Given to Congress on 2 December 1823 the doctrine precluded European intervention in any part of the Western Hemisphere. In original sheep binding. Light rubbing and periodic foxing.

GLC00237

2 October 1864

Martin, William H., fl. 1864

Manuscript

Title: C. F. Miller Col. 192nd P.V. Poll-book for October election companies

Poll book for the 1864 election for Company C of the 192nd Pennsylvania Volunteers. Certifies the officers of the election. Lists votes for Congress and a number of local offices. Colonel C. F. Miller was probably the commanding officer of this company. Lieutenant William Martin was the clerk of the election and one of the judges of the election as well.

GLC00234

February 13- February 14,1850

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, on the subject of slavery in the territories.

Senator Davis, future President of the Confederacy, speech made while a member of Congress. Responds to resolutions introduced by Senator Henry Clay pertaining to the Compromise of 1850. Davis asks, "...is there such incompatibility of interest between the two sections of this country that they cannot profitable live together? Does the agriculture of the South injure the manufactures of the North? On the other hand are they not their life-blood?"

GLC08461

February 16, 1833

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Webster, in the senate, in reply to Mr. Calhoun's speech on the bill "Further to provide for the collection of duties on imports."

Response to John C. Calhoun's bill "Further to provide for the collection of duties on imports," which opposed the tariff bills passed. Webster attacks the states' rights language underlying Calhoun's resolutions, analyzes their language (and that of the Constitution) and argues that nullification is not provided for in the Constitution. First edition. Printed by Gales and Seaton.

GLC00267.018

February 16, 1847

Missouri, Legislature

Printed document

Title: Memorial of the general assembly of Missouri, requesting that efforts be made by negotiation with the British government, to procure the restoration of fugitive slaves.

29th Congress, 2d session. Senate document no. 150. Missouri requests a measure for negotiations with England to prevent slaves escaping to Canada. Printed by Ritchie & Heiss, printers.

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