1872

Book

Title: Proceedings in the Klu Klux Klan trials at Columbia, S.C. in the United States circuit court, November term, 1871.

Published by the Republican Printing Company, State Printers. Contains detailed court proceedings regarding cases of Klan members versus the United States. Index, beginning on page 1 following page 835, organizes the book by case, noting the names of participating defense and prosecution. No creator is listed, though the title page indicates that this book was printed from government copy. The initials B.P. and L.F.P. follow a brief introduction. First edition.

GLC05929

circa 1925

Ku Klux Klan

Pamphlet

Title: The Klan in action leadership responsibilites organization methods: a manual of leadership for officers of local klans.

Published by American Printing & Manufacturing Company. Contains detailed instructions on leadership, Klan policies, and local Klan organization for officers. Begins by stating "The one human quality which, more than any other, makes a man stand out above his fellows, which can make him most useful to himself, his brother men, his country and his God, is the power of leadership." First edition.

GLC05930

circa 1837

Southard, Nathaniel, fl. 1837

Pamphlet

Title: The American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1838, being the second after Bissextile or Leap-Year, and the 62nd of American Independence. Adapted to most parts of the United States.

Labeled Vol. 1 no. 3. Southard serves as editor. Published by D. K. Hitchcock. With front paper engraving depicting William [Lloyd] Garrison attempting to chop down a tree labeled "Slavery" while a minister, soldier, businessman and President Van Buren attempt to support the tree. Contains many illustrations showing the injustices of slavery. Closes with Garrison's address opposing the annexation of Texas to the Union as a "slaveholding country." Edges are extremely delicate.

GLC05939

circa 5 April 1968

Emerson Graphics, fl. 1968

Broadside

Title: I am a man

Printed in large red letters by Emerson Graphics. Includes an imprint of Tea Lautrec Litho., the word "Memphis," and the poster price written in small print at the bottom of the page. Refer to GLC06124 for another printing of this poster.

GLC05954

10 December 1862

Clisby, Joseph, fl. 1862

Newspaper

Title: Macon daily telegraph. [no. 881 (December 10, 1862)]

Subjects include Confederate War Debt, Lincoln's Emancipation Policy, Article on Compensated Emancipation. Includes general advertisements and land sale advertisements.

GLC05959.04

1862 - 1864

Morse, N.S., fl. 1862-1864

Header Record

Title: Daily chronicle & sentinel.

Each issue contains telegraphic reports and Northern news, mostly covering battle reports and war news. Commercial reports indicate stock values in Augusta markets, including financial, cotton, dry goods, grain, groceries, country produce, and sale of enslaved people. Special notices in each issue list religious services, legislative and election news (including intentions of running for elected office), meeting notices, requests for blankets for soldiers, and conscription notices. Auction notices list a variety of things for sale in each issue. Most issues have four pages; one has two…

GLC05959.07

July - December 1863

Prentice, George Dennison, 1802-1870

Newspaper

Title: Louisville (Kentucky) daily journal.

The bulk of the paper is taken up by ads, many for military supplies, railway lines, schools, and others for medical needs and retail supplies. Telegraphic news lists special dispatches of war news. A back page statement of assets lists stocks and liabilities, with licensed agents. Many issues contain a list of local police proceedings. Fictional stories are also included, particularly in the Sunday issue, when there are fewer advertisements. Some issues contain marriage notices and obituaries, and some list river notices. Some Sunday papers have a Masonic Intelligence column. The 12…

GLC05959.14

2 July 1863

Swords, J. M., fl. 1863

Newspaper

Title: Daily citizen. [July 2, 1863]

The famous wallpaper issue with the "Note" added by Grant's soldiers in the last column. This issue has the banner title spelled correctly. (See also GLC 6043, the variant issue with misspelled masthead.) Docketed on verso, signed by Lt. Tom Custer, 1st Arkansas Colored Infantry. Note is written to "Charley," dated March 29, 1864. (Thomas M. Custer, formerly of the 124th Illinois, was recruiting for the 46th US Colored Troops. He joined the regiment as 1st Lieutenant in Jan. 1865. Copies of service files in collateral.) This is the rarest of all Vicksburg wallpaper editions, being the last…

GLC05959.20

1862

Holden, William Woods, 1818-1892

Header Record

Title: Weekly standard.

The paper gives regular reports of the latest war news. Advertisements include runaway slave notices and slaves for sale; retail, real estate, and other items for sale; conscription substitutes wanted; lost items; and market reports. Telegraphic news is also included. Obituaries are printed, as are notices of deserters. Many issues contain minutes of the North Carolina Legislature or Acts and Resolutions of the North Carolina General Assembly. Most issues contain fugitive slave and negro for sale ads. (1862/9/17, 1862/12/17, 1862/12/24, and 1862/12/31)

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1862

Spelman, John, 1821-1899

Header Record

Title: Weekly state journal.

A column titled "Latest News" gives war briefs and reports, as well as a column with "the very latest from the North," detailing war news. Notices from particular North Carolina troops are printed. Laws, minutes, and reports of the state of North Carolina are often printed. Advertisements refer to fugitive slaves, soldiers in need of clothing and supplies, the sale and rent of plantations and other retail items. Obituaries are often included. Vol. 2 nos. 24-25, 27 and 52. 4/23/1862, 4/30/1862, 5/14/1862 and 11/5/1862.

GLC05959.25

1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Pamphlet

Title: The opinions of Abraham Lincoln, upon slavery and its issues

Excerpts relating to slavery taken from various speeches given by Lincoln over the years. Printed by L. Towers for the Union Congressional Committee. Signed in pencil on front "Moses W.D. Hamel."

GLC05765

1862

Bates, Edward, 1793-1869

Pamphlet signed

Title: Opinion of Attorney General Bates on citizenship.

With original wrapper. First edition printed by the Government Printing Office. Inscribed on front cover to R. R. Hazard from Bates in 1863. This pamphlet is a printing of a letter from Bates to Salmon Portland Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, answering the question "whether or not colored men can be citizens of the United States." Bates answers, "the free man of color, mentioned in your letter, if born in the United States, is a citizen of the United States, and, if otherwise qualified, is competent, according to the acts of Congress, to be master of a vessel engaged in the coasting…

GLC05775

January 20, 1842

Tyler, John, 1790-1862

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President of the United States...

Title continues, "... communicating, In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, copies of correspondence in relation to the mutiny on board the brig Creole, and the liberation of the slaves who were passengers in the said vessel." 27th Congress, 2d session. Senate document 51.

GLC05793

February 12, 1841

United States. Congress (26th, 2d session : 1841)

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate,...

(title continues)... copies of correspondence relative to the negroes taken on board the schooner Amistad. Contains reports and correspondence created by John Forsyth, Secretary of State, the Chevalier de Argaiz (envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Spain), and others pertaining to the Amistad case. Discusses Cuban laws regarding slavery and other topics relevant to the Amistad case. Senate document number 179.

GLC05794

15 April 1840

United States. Congress (26th, 1st session : 1840)

Pamphlet

Title: Africans taken in the Amistad: message from the President of the United States transmitting...

... (title continues) the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 23d ultimo, in relation to the Africans taken in the vessel called the Amistad, &c. Includes correspondence between John Forsyth (Secretary of State), the Chevalier de Argaiz (envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Spain), and others involved with the Amistad case. Includes Spanish and English versions. Document number 185.

GLC05795.01

24 June 1846

United States. Congress (29th, 1st session : 1846)

Pamphlet

Title: Schooner Amistad.

Contains an introductory statement by James Buchanan, Secretary of State, transmitting documents to Charles J. Ingersoll, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. The report contains correspondence between Buchanan and A. Calderon de la Barca, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Spain. Contains an 1818 letter from Don Luis de Onis (Spanish Minister) to John Quincy Adams (Secretary of State 1817-1825). This pamphlet pertains to "the urgent necessity for bringing to a decision an affair already too prolonged- that of the schooner Amistad…

GLC05796

22 December 1861

Nottingham, V.A., fl. 1861

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for $110 for the hire of slave Jim Smith]

Nottingham, a slave owner, attests to the receipt of $110 from Captain William Lambert, for the hire of Nottingham's slave, Jim Smith, for the year of 1861.

GLC05763

circa 1856

Pamphlet

Title: Infidelity and abolitionism. An open letter to the friends of religion, morality, and the American Union.

Attacks the Presidential campaign of John C. Frémont. "John C. Fremont is the candidate for the Presidency of conjoined fanaticisms... We assert and defy contradiction, that every organization boasting infidel doctrines is now an organization in favor of Fremont; and we assert also, that all those desiring a dissolution of the Union are openly co-operating with these organizations."

GLC05764

1844

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

Pamphlet

Title: An address delivered in the court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes of the British West Indies

Speech by Emerson attacking slavery, one of his earliest statements in support of abolition. First edition. Published by James Munroe and Company.

GLC05766

1848

Bowditch, William Ingersoll, 1819-1909

Pamphlet

Title: Cass and Taylor on the slavery question.

First edition, printed by Damrell & Moore. Stab-stitched. Contains a New York State Library stamp in upper right corner of cover.

GLC05768

1848

Adams, John Calvin, 1810-1885

Pamphlet

Title: General Taylor and the Wilmot Proviso

Published by Wilson and Damrell. Imprint from advertisement on back cover. Library of Congress attributes this pamphlet to Adams. Contains multiple notes written in brown ink throughout text.

GLC05769

3 September 1840

Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Theodore Sedgwick

Tappan, an abolitionist supporting the freedom of the Amistad Africans, discusses a letter from Roger Sherman Baldwin to Sedgwick. States that Mr. B. (Baldwin) requests the advice of Sedgwick and Seth Staples regarding the trial. Refers to Judge T. (possibly Smith Thompson, Judge of the Amistad trial at the Circuit Court level). Writes "We ought to make a powerful onset on the 17th to obtain the liberation of the Africans- and to let the Judge understand explicitly that we expect to carry the point..." Expresses astonishment that President Martin Van Buren has not yet upheld a promise to…

GLC05799

22 May 1825

Lawton, Edward W., fl. 1810-1825

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Evans

One letter from Edward Lawton to Thomas Evans dated May 22, 1825. Relays the details of an enslaved girl seeking refuge. States that two years prior, she had been Anthony Barklay (or Barclay) and his family during a moved to Newport. The girl escaped and has been residing at the family of Nathaniel Hathaway in New Bedford. Reports that Barclay is still searching for the girl, and friends are hiding her to protect her from Barclay's cruelty. Hathaway's wife, Anna Shoemaker, has taken to girl to Philadelphia. Hopes to obtain for the girl "the speedy and effectual protection which her case…

GLC05800

11 April 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph note signed

Title: to Edwin McMasters Stanton

President Lincoln sends a colored man to advise the Secretary of War, Stanton, on the organization of colored troops in the army. Instructs Stanton to "see [L.H.?] Putnam, whom you will find a very intelligent colored man, and who wishes to talk about our colored forces, their organization ... " Written on a small card.

GLC05809

21 September 1781

Bailey, Francis, 1744-1817

Broadside

Title: Postscript to the Freeman's Journal, Sept. 21.

This document is a copy of the Postscript to the Freeman's Journal from 21 September 1781. It contains letter from a free black man named Cato, "a poor negro," complaining of a newly proposed act that would have sent free blacks back into slavery. Also includes a continued recount of the proceedings of the assembly, a letter to the printer about the anniversary of the Battle of Bemis Heights, 19 September 1777, and a few other news items.

GLC05818