24 June 1853

Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869

Manuscript document signed

Title: Pardon of Albert Mortimer, convicted of burglary.

Mortimer, convicted of burglary; sentenced to 14 years. (c/s William L. Marcy)

GLC04991

21 May 1866

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Pardon of Thomas H. Howard by Andrew Johnson]

Pardon for a burglar who pled guilty to three charges. Countersigned by William H. Seward.

GLC04992

25 April 1863

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Letter signed

Title: [Message to the Confederate House of Representatives vetoing an act for investigating committees].

Vetoes "an act to aid committees of Congress in the investigation of matters referred to them and to punish false swearing before said committees" passed by the Confederate Congress. Davis believes that conferring upon the Congress the power to fine and imprison those appearing before it without trial would be unconstitional. Such powers are reserved for the judicial branch. The fourth leaf has a purple stamp which has been obliterated, possibly a Rebel War Archive stamp.

GLC04974

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: House used as prison. [Washington?]

A three story white house with fenced in courtyard or garden. A telegraph pole is in the center of the image next to a tree. Train tracks run across the lower right. Inscription on verso: "Another House [struck: on Pey and [illegible] st n.o.] also used as a prison." Additional inscription on verso is illegible. Small seal reading "Wilson Copyrighted 1885" in the lower right corner. Numeric notation on verso: "486."

GLC05111.01.0570

circa 1861-1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Culpepper Courthouse with prisoners on balcony.

The image shows a group of people standing in front of an unidentified municipal building, with three people hanging clothes from the balcony. Inscription on verso: "Gardner." Numeric notations on verso: "IV" and "523 (?)"

GLC05111.01.1053

5 October 1872

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Manuscript document signed

Title: Pardon of Henry Smith, convicted of counterfeiting.

Pardon of Henry Smith, convicted of passing counterfeit money. (c/s Hamilton Fish)

GLC05086

5 January 1863

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Broadside

Title: An Address to the People of the Free States by the President of the Southern Confederacy.

Contemporary fake on emancipation. Imprint, "Richmond Enquirer Print." A fictitious response of Jefferson Davis to the Emancipation Proclamation, threatening retaliation by enslaving Black people. It says in part "All negroes who shall be taken in any of the states in which slavery does not now exist, in the progress of our arms, shall be adjudged, immediately after such capture, to occupy the slave status, and in all states which shall be vanquished by our arms, all free negroes shall, ipso facto, be reduced to the condition of helotism...."

GLC05018

19 October 1846

Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Pardon of Edward Sheehy for assault].

Countersigned by Secretary of State James Buchanan. The pardon orders Sheehy to pay a fine and costs of $23.

GLC05090

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Soldier's quarters New Berne, NC [split stereocard]

Image shows five soldiers standing in the yard in front of a two-storey house, with another group of approximately eleven on the second storey balcony. Inscription on verso: "Quarters of Soldiers on Front St. Secesh Jail. New Berne N.C. County Jail. Duplicates."

GLC05111.01.1246

1801

Eddy, Thomas, fl. 1801

Book

Title: An Account of the state prison or penitentiary house [New York]

[Title continued] "In the state of New York. By one of the Inspectors of the Prison."

GLC06252

1777

Pemberton, Israel, fl. 1777

Pamphlet

Title: An Address to the inhabitants of Pennsylvania, by those freemen, of the city of Philadelphia, who are now confined in the Mason's lodge.

Title continues: "by virtue of a general warrant, signed in council by the Vice President of the council of Pennsylvania." Signed on p. 52 by Pemberton and twenty-one others. Includes copies of orders of the Supreme Executive Council, remonstrances addressed to the Council, and other papers upon the state's arrest of Quakers (including himself) on suspicion of Loyalist sympathies during the Revolutionary War, and their confinement without a hearing or trial. Printed by Robert Bell. Evans 15496.

GLC06258

17 April 1865

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Pardon of George Carroll by Andrew Johnson]

Convicted of highway robbery. Pardoned because he was immature at the time of the crime, he had reformed and repented, and the pardon was recommended by many respected citizens. (c/s William Hunter, Acting Secretary of State)

GLC06351

1802

Header Record

Title: Legal documents pertaining to the Easter Plot of 1802 [Decimalized .01-.16]

An archive of legal documents related to the Halifax County, Virginia trial of slaves following Sancho's Rebellion, also known as the Easter Plot of 1802. Includes six indictments, five mittimus warrants, one arrest warrant, and four writs of summons. Sancho, a participant in Gabriel's Rebellion of 1800, instigated a slave uprising intended to take place on or around Good Friday 1802. The ferment spread through southern Virginia (including Halifax County), and northeastern North Carolina. In his book "Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 & 1802," Daniel…

GLC06338

December 31, 1921

Moton, Robert Russa, 1867-1940

Typed letter signed

Title: to unknown

Moton, President of the Tuskegee Institute, reports on "[t]he lynching record for 1921," based on the research of Monroe N. Work, in charge of the Department of Records and Research at the Institute. States that in 1921, "...there were 72 instances in which officers of the law prevented lynchings. Of these 8 were in Northern States and 64 were in Southern States. In 1920 there were 56 such instances, 46 in Southern and 10 in Northern States. In 66 of the cases, the prisoners were removed, or the guards were augmented, or other precautions taken. In 6 instances armed force was used to…

GLC06068

1865

North Carolina, Constitutional Convention

Broadside

Title: An ordinance prohibiting slavery in the State of North Carolina.

Ordinance No. 16, introduced by Mr. Settle. Declares, "... it is hereby declared and ordained, That Slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than for crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby forever prohibited within the State."

GLC06079

10 May 1862

Eastman, A. W., fl. 1862

Newspaper

Title: Soldier's News-Letter

Edited by Eastman with editorial assistance by Charles Giles of Belfast, Maine. Soldiers' newspaper (Vol. 1, No. 1) reporting on capture of Forts Jackson and Philip, which led to the fall of New Orleans. Gives news of events in New Orleans since its fall. Report of drunken Union soldier mistakenly hurrahed for Jeff Davis and was thrown in jail. Other miscelleanous news tidbits throughout, mostly concerned with logisitical issues involving New Orleans. News extracts from the "New Orleans Bee" of 2 May 1862 and the "New Orleans Picayune" of 6 May 1862. List of dead from the 30th Massachusetts…

GLC06107.20

3 May 1865

Newspaper

Title: Sixth corps. [Vol. 1, no. 6 (May 3, 1865)]

News of Lincoln's assassination and the capture and death of John Wilkes Booth. Also includes an article on opening trade with the south once all rebels have been overthrown, and the text of the "President's favorite poem."

GLC06107.34

10 September 1799

Stoddert, Benjamin, 1751-1813

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Smith

Written as Sec. of Navy during the Quasi-War regarding the capture of American ships by the French and British.

GLC05989

1840

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

Pamphlet

Title: Africans taken in the Amistad: congressional document, containing the correspondence, & c., in relation to the captured Africans.

This is a reprint by the New York Anti-Slavery Depository. A note inside the cover explains that there were no copies of this Congressional document available in Washington. Contains statements and correspondence from John Forsyth (Secretary of State 1834-1841), William S. Holabird (District Attorney for the State of Connecticut during the Amistad case), A. Calderon de la Barca (envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of Spain) and various others involved in the Amistad case.

GLC06138

1841

Baldwin, Roger Sherman, 1793-1863

Pamphlet

Title: The argument of Roger S. Baldwin, of New Haven, before the Supreme Court of the United States,...

(title continues)... in the case of the United States, Appellants, vs. Cinque, and others, Africans of the Amistad. Printed by Seth Williston Benedict. Includes stitched binding.

GLC06139

1849

Thompson, George, ?-1893

Book

Title: Prison life and reflections; or, a narrative of the arrest, trial, conviction, imprisonment, treatment, observations, reflections, and deliverance of Work, Burr, and Thompson...

(title continued)... who suffered an unjust and cruel imprisonment in Missouri Penitentiary for attempting to aid some slaves to liberty. Published by A. (possibly Alanson) Work.

GLC06169

1845

Clark, Lewis Garrard, 1812-1897)

Pamphlet

Title: Narrative of the sufferings of Lewis Clarke, during a captivity of more than twenty-five years, among the Algerines of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of North America.

Printed by David H. Ela. Signed on front and rear cover by Caleb Hobart of East Maison (possibly Tennessee). Dictated by Clark. With an introduction, verifying Clark's testimony, by Joseph Cammet Lovejoy (anti-slavery figure and brother of abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy). Includes frontispiece engraving of Clark.

GLC06177

31 March 1930

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Document signed

Title: [Pardon of Jose F. Gandara, convicted of conspiracy to start a military expedition against Mexico 3 December 1927]

Jose F. Gandara was convicted by the U.S. District Court of Arizona of conspiracy to "set foot or provide means for a military expedition against a friendly power, the republic of Mexico." He was sentenced to two years in the McNeil Island Penitentiary and a $1,000 fine. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the judgment. Accompanied by printed pamphlet, writ of certiorari denied by the U.S. Supreme Court, and two typed letters signed from Manuel C. Tellez, Ambassador of Mexico concerning Gandara's citizenship.

GLC05964

7 August 1841

Tyler, John, 1790-1862

Document signed

Title: [Pardon of Lorenzo Dow for the murder of a ship captain].

Countersigned by Secretary of State Daniel Webster. Dow was convicted for the murder of Captain William C. Langdon of the Brig "Francis" while at sea and sentenced to be hung. Pardoned because he was "...a fit subject for the interposition of the Executive Clemency."

GLC05976

February 13, 1865

Jackson, William Hicks, 1835-1903

Document

Title: Circular address to the absentees from the Tenn. calvary of Forrest's command

From the headquarters of Brigadier General Jackson's calvary division. Jackson says he was recently put in charge of the Tennessee calvary "in this Department" and asks for their return to the colors. Says he feels identified with the troops and that his interest in their welfare moved him to make the request in order to secure "good behavior everywhere, and above all respect to citizens and their property." Will be welcomed back if they come voluntarily. Says anyone brought in as a prisoner will not join him. Asks the citizens of West Tennessee for their assistance in the matter. Says now…

GLC05987.04