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A true vindication of the South

GLC08581.10

Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson

Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Second edition. Published in Boston by Gray and Bowen. Signed by Hamilton Fish. This was the first of several attempts to replicate Thomas Jefferson's correspondence. Volumes 1 and 4 are mis-identified on the...

GLC08584

Narrative of the Texas Santa Fe Expedition

Printed by Harper and Brothers

GLC08585

Lloyd's American Railroad Weekly [Vol. 1, no. 48 (June 15, 1861)]

Inside the newspaper there is a large color map of the railroads of the Eastern United States as well as a smaller map of the railroads of Texas and the harbor in Pensacola, Florida. The map is the size of the entire newspaper folded out. Published...

GLC08586

South Carolina. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting correspondence in relation to Fort Sumter, &c.

Marked House Executive Document, No. 61, 36th Congress, 2nd Session. Buchanan transmits to Congress correspondence concerning Fort Sumter. Printings of seven letters, including ones by or to Jefferson Davis, John Slidell, Colonel Isaac W. Hayne...

GLC08438

Memorial of the senators and representatives elect from the state of California...

Title continues "asking permission of said State into the Union, together with the credentials of said representatives, and a certified copy of the constitution of said State." House of Representatives Misc. No. 44. Plea signed by William Gwin...

GLC08439

[General Order No. 35 to draft 500,000 men]

Signed in print by President Lincoln. Orders the draft of 500,000 men to serve for three years or the duration of the war.

GLC08441.05

Opinion of the Attorney-General on the act entitled "An Act For The Relief of Fitz-John Porter."

Brewster examined the bill for the restoration of Fitz-John Porter to the Army. In conclusion, states: "The bill is subject to objection, upon the ground that it is to be filled by a particular individual named. If this principle were adopted...

GLC08444

The barbarism of slavery. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state.

Disbound. Printed by Buell & Blanchard. Senator Sumner declares, "When last I entered into this debate, it became my duty to expose the Crime against Kansas, and to insist upon the immediate admission of that Territory as a State of this Union...

GLC08445.01

Review of the Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, in the cases of Lambdin P. Milligan and others, the Indiana Conspirators.

Original printing of the Supreme Court's April 3, 1866 decision in Ex Parte Milligan, rejecting the military's claim of legal jurisdiction to try and sentence Lambdin P. Milligan and other so-called "Butternuts," Confederate supporters in southern...

GLC08445.02