28 July 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Pamphlet

Title: Treaty between the United States of America and the Ottawa Indians of Blanchard's Fork and Roche De Boeuf.

Certifies that the Ottawa Indians of Blanchard's Fork and Roche De Boeuf in Franklin County, Kansas, will dissolve as a tribe within five years from the ratification of this treaty and will become citizens of the United States. Lists the articles of agreement. The treaty was concluded 24 June 1862 between William P. Dole, Commissioner for the United States, and the Councilmen of the Ottawa Indians, Pem-ach-wung, Chief; John T. Jones, William Hurr, and James Wind, Councilmen. Ratified 16 July 1862 and amended 19 July 1862.

GLC08531

18 October 1865

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Newspaper

Title: New-York daily tribune. [Vol. 25, no. 7654 (October 18, 1865)]

Discusses President Andrew Johnson's involvement in various aspects of reconstruction. Addresses the responsibility of the Judiciary, not the Executive, in bringing former President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis to trial. Includes a full report on the beauty of Yosemite, written by an unspecified correspondent accompanied by Fred MacCrellish, publisher of the Alta California newspaper in San Francisco, William Ashburner of the State Geological Survey, and Frederic Law Olmsted, architect of Central Park and Secretary of the United States Sanitary Commission. Contains a report that…

GLC08726.34

17 June 1864

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

Newspaper

Title: The Liberator. [Vol. XXXIV, no. 25 (June 17, 1864)]

Prints articles on the British and Foreign anti-slavery society and a letter of Gerritt Smith to Elizabeth Cady Stanton about 1864 presidential election. Brief article praises the equalization of pay for African American [colored] soldiers. Covers the Baltimore, Maryland convention, the re-nomination of President Abraham Lincoln, and the other presidential nominations. Also includes articles on the emancipation of the serfs in Russia, the repeal of the fugitive slave law, the Methodist Church and slavery, and Negro suffrage in Montana.

GLC08608

24 August 1864

Gerrish, Benjamin, Jr., fl. 1859-1869

Pamphlet

Title: Journal of the House of Representatives August 24, 1864

Full title is: "Journal of the House of Representatives August 24, 1864, Together with the Testimony Before the Committee on the Bill in Relation to Allowing Soldiers to Vote." Printed by Amos Hadley, State Printer in Concord. Creator is the Clerk of the House of Representatives, who was directed by the state government to publish the debates. State debates between the vetoing governor and the House on allowing soldiers to vote in absentia. First edition. Original wrappers with stab-stich binding.

GLC08422

27 July 1864

Republican Party (Conn.). State Central Committee

Broadside

Title: Address of the Union State Central Committee upon the constitutional amendment ...

Printed signature of James G. Batterson as Chairman. Title continues, "...extending the elective franchise to citizen soldiers in the field." Appeals to voters to approve elective franchise for soldiers in time for them to be able to vote in the 1864 Presidential election. Printed sheet. Lists the members of the Union State Central Committee.

GLC08424

August 21, 1918

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Typed letter signed

Title: to Helen H. Gardener

Wilson expresses his distress at Helen Gardner being hospitalized. He explains that his distress arises mostly from her inability to continue to do her fine work. He also offers his assistance in helping her attain her goal. Typed on White House stationery in green ink with header, The White House Washington. Stationery watermarked Whiting's Woven Linen. One bust engraving of Wilson included.

GLC00118.07

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

August 20, 1792

Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Stephen Row Bradley

Requests Judge Stephen Row Bradley's professional opinion and advice regarding the gubernatorial election of 1792 in which Burr disqualified votes in several counties.

GLC00496.015

October 5, 1866

Foster, Lafayette Sabine, 1806-1880

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Wakeman

Foster, a U.S. senator from Connecticut, discusses his views on reconstruction with Wakeman, a lawyer. Foster says that he would restrict the right to vote to those with "capacity and virtue," but that it would be "arbitrary, unjust, and tyrannical to make any discriminations…on account of color…" He writes extensively about the rights, especially voting rights, of the "negro," and he states "There is no more sense in talking of a man's natural right to vote, than there is in talking of his natural right to be the Chief Justice, or the President of the United States…It is dangerous to commit…

GLC00544

May 24, 1854

Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Pitt Fessenden

Colfax notes that he is not personally acquainted with Senator Fessenden, but they were both present at a previous National Convention. He hopes that instead of voting against the Clayton Amendment, Fessenden will allow it to pass, in hopes that its passage and effect will prove disastrous for the bill's supporters: "...it would drag down the Conspirators to a deeper degradation & a more decisive condemnation." He calls supporters of the bill "Douglasites," possibly a reference to Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Letter written on Register Office, South Bend stationery. Top left corner…

GLC01095

6 June 1867

Anthony, Susan B., 1820-1906

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles James Folger

Written by Anthony as Corresponding Secretary on stationery of the American Equal Rights Association. Folger was a delegate to a convention to consider amendments to the the New York State Constitution. Inquires how she might present to the convention petitions "asking the enfrancisement of women and black men not worth $215." Pleads with him to "champion the question of impartial suffrage" and asks how women suffragists might be able to address the convention.

GLC04360.033

7 July 1867

Anthony, Susan B., 1820-1906

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles James Folger

Written by Anthony as Corresponding Secretary on stationery of the American Equal Rights Association. Folger was a delegate to a convention in Albany that was amending the New York State Constitution. Tells him that Lucy Stone and others will come to Albany on the following day "with the expectation that you will be able to secure a hearing for advocates, before the committee of the whole, on Tuesday evening -- but please understand, I don't want our hearing until after Geo. Wm. Curtis shall have made his speech". Discusses her desire to see the word "man" in the Constitution replaced with…

GLC04360.034

circa November 1872-March 1873

Typed document

Title: [An address to President Ulysses S. Grant from the Republican women of Massachusetts on the occasion of inauguration for his second term].

Urges him to follow the dictates of the 14th resolution of the 1872 Republican Party Platform, which recognizes the importance of women, and so recommend women's suffrage to Congress in his inaugural address. Also asks him to prevent Congress from abridging the right of women to vote in Wyoming and Utah. The petition includes pasted signatures (as noted) as well as signatures on the document: Julia Ward Howe (pasted), L. Maria Child (pasted), Louisa M. Alcott (pasted), E. P. Peabody (pasted), Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mary A. Livermore, C. M. Severance (pasted), Abby W. May (pasted), Mary…

GLC04360.035

May 1905

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

Typed document

Title: Draft of Ladies Home Journal article "Woman's Mission and Woman's Clubs."

Draft of Ladies Home Journal article "Woman's Mission and Woman's Clubs." Opposing women's suffrage." Let it be here distinctly understood that no sensible man has fears of injury to the country on account of such participation. It is its dangerous undermining effect on the characters of the wives and mothers of our land that we fear." With autograph corrections and interlinear insertions.

GLC08000

1915

Newspaper clipping

Title: 8 News articles [decimalized: a-c]

Collateral: 81 News articles, mostly 1915-1925. The articles were written after Grant's death (bulk: early 20th century). Includes four articles about Susan B. Anthony centenary celebrations in 1920; two articles written by Grant's Granddaughter; stories and remembrances of Grant; and news concerning memorials, statues and his tomb in New York. Also includes Articles relating to Grant centenary (4/1922), Grant-Dent Memorial Association. Many of the articles have St. Louis imprint. Some are German language newspapers regarding Grant.

GLC04360.119

1860

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874

Pamphlet

Title: Religion of reason, no. 4. The one test of character. A discourse by Gerrit Smith, in Peterboro, July twenty-second, 1860.

Published in New York City by Ross & Tousey. In closing, Smith writes, "The morals and manners of a church should be such, as to realize our highest conceptions of human dignity... Church of Peterboro! Be true to your own God at the approaching Election. He is not your God, who would have men vote for candidates who are in favor of a white man's Party, and of excluding the black man from suffrage and citizenship." Bound in a yellow paper cover.

GLC04717.07

February 5, 1873

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874

Printed letter

Title: Gerrit Smith to Susan B. Anthony

Smith writes to Anthony, the legendary activist and reformer: "Why men have the ballot and women hav'nt it, and why they have so much else in which they refuse to let women share, originates in the simple fact, that the superior physical strength is on the side of man. I confess that such things go somewhat toward making me ashamed of being a man. Nevertheless, I am consoled by the thought that when men shall have become wiser and better, and exchanged their barbaric pride in their stronger and rougher sex for a sense of what they owe to the weaker and gentler one, they will be glad to do…

GLC04717.55

15 August 1873

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874

Printed letter

Title: Woman suffrage above human law. Letter from Gerrit Smith.

Smith writes to Anthony, the legendary activist and reformer, discussing women's right to vote. Sends Anthony money to pay a fine, and declares that if she chooses not to pay the fine, she should use the money at her discretion "to promote the cause of woman suffrage."

GLC04717.56

4 March 1876

Cox, Samuel Sullivan, 1824-1889

Printed document

Title: [U. S. House of Representatives bill]

Printed copy of a U. S. House of Representatives bill introduced by Cox to "remove the political disabilities of William L. Maury... that all legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States, by reason of participation in the rebellion, be, and they are hereby removed." Includes a printed note on verso that the bill was read before the House 31 January 1876. Includes a handwritten note on verso, likely in Cox's hand, noting that the bill "Just passed 1 P.M. Friday March 4. 76."

GLC04572.40

18 May 1876

Kernan, Francis, 1816-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Sullivan Cox

The bill for the relief of William L. Maury passed the Senate yesterday. Encloses (not included) a copy of the bill as it passed the Senate, striking the phrase "legal and. . . ." Undated note from Cox responds that he will make sure the House concurs in "the verbal amend[men]t of the Senate." Kernan was a U.S. senator from New York.

GLC04572.41

1-3 March 1787

Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Discusses the convention (referring to the upcoming Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia) and his views of the people's ideas of changes Congress would bring about. "I have not the most distant idea that the people would adopt any recommendations of Congress in which the inlargement of their powers are included; they would immediately become jealous of them that the few were attempting to influence the many: sentiments like these would be thrown out .. " In relation to Shays' Rebellion, describes skirmishes with the rebels in Stockbridge and Barrington, Massachusetts. He has heard that…

GLC02437.03476

6 April 1854

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874

Pamphlet

Title: No slavery in Nebraska: no slavery in the nation: slavery an outlaw. Speech of Gerrit Smith, on the Nebraska Bill.

Representative Smith states, "I am opposed to the bill for organizing the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas, which has come to us from the Senate, because, in the first place, it insults colored men, and the Maker of all men, by limiting suffrage to white men... in the second place, it limits suffrage to persons, who have acquired citizenship... in the third place, because, it is so drawn, as to convey the deceptive idea... that the bill recognizes the doctrine of non-intervention."

GLC05116.06

circa 1854

Gillette, Francis, 1807-1879

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Gillette

Location inferred from content. A note on last page indicates this document was created after 24 May 1854. In response to the question, "Are you willing that the black man shall participate, equally with the white man, in all the social and political benefits of this country," Gillette replies, "I certainly am willing, yea, desirous, that all men, irrespective of color, stature, height, circumference, or any other of the accidents of being, should have the same rights and the enjoyment of the same privileges, to work out the great problem of their existence, and to 'participate equally'... "

GLC05116.08

February 6, 1944

Weiner, Sylvia, 1912-2008

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia recounts her lazy day, and reports on friends. Says her Dad received a telegram from her brother Alvin [in Air Force training], that says he has soloed. Her sister Mad is finally getting her divorce. Discusses the ability of the soldiers to vote and arguments in Congress.

GLC09414.0151

19 March 1943

Greenfield, Alvin, 1924-1946

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sylvia Weiner

Alvin just learned that Moe is in Salem, Oregon. He also learned that Algerian Jews had their citizenship revoked. He says this bothers him greatly for if he fought alongside a Frenchman, he would have no regard for him.

GLC09414.1541