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Exchange of prisoners. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the House of 21st December last, relative to the exchange of prisoners of war.

House of Representatives, 38th Congress, 2nd session, Executive Document no. 32.

GLC00267.354

House of Representatives. Report # 67. Returned Prisoners.

38th Congress, 1st session. Signed by W. L. Ransom. Report made by Daniel Gooch of the Joint Committee on the Conduct and Expenditures of the War. Describes in detail the harsh treatment endured by prisoners of war and the destitute condition of...

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Letter from the Secretary of the Navy...

Title continues, "...in Answer to a Resolution of the House of the 20th instant, transmitting report of Chief Engineer King, as also May, in relation to iron-clad vessels and dock-yards of Europe." Report submitted by Secretary of the Navy Welles to...

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Neutrality of Great Britain in the Civil War [SD 18]

1861 diplomatic correspondence

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Discourse pronounced at the capitol of the United States, in the Hall of Representatives, before the American Historical Society, January 30, 1836, by the Hon. Lewis Cass, President of the Society.

Printed by P. Thompson. Cass discusses history, praises George Washington, etc. Cover is missing; possibly previously bound in a larger volume.

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Speech of Mr. Lincoln, of Massachusetts: delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, Feb. 7, 1837, on the resolution to censure the Hon. John Q. Adams...

(title continues)... for inquiring of the Speaker, whether a paper, purporting to come from enslaved people, came within the resolution laying on the table all petitions relating to slavery. Printed by Gales and Seaton. Reported by the editor of...

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Speech of Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, on the subject of abolition petitions. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 7, 1839.

Printed by Gales and Seaton. Stab-stitched. Clay argues, "The liberty of the descendants of Africa in the United States is incompatible with the safety and liberty of the European descendants. Their slavery forms an exception... to the general...

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Payment for slaves. Speech of Mr. J. R. Giddings, of Ohio, on the bill to pay the heirs of Antonio Pacheco for a slave sent west of the Mississippi with the Seminole Indians in 1838...

(title continues)... made in the House of Representatives, Dec. 28, 1848, and Jan. 6, 1849. Printed by Buell & Blanchard. Uncut.

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The Wilmot Proviso: bill and explanation of Preston King, of New York, in the House of Representatives of the U.S., January 4 & 5, 1847.

Printed at the office of Blair and Rives. Apparently removed from previous binding.

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Speech of Hon. Daniel Webster, on Mr. Clay's resolutions, in the Senate of the United States, March 7, 1850.

Printed by Gideon & Co. Original yellow wrapper. First pages uncut. Discusses slavery in the United States, pertaining to the Compromise of 1850.

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Address of the Hon. John C. Calhoun, in the Senate of the United States, on the subject of slavery.

Title page missing. Appears to have been removed from a larger volume. Calhoun's speech was read for him by James Mason, 4 March 1850. Argues that the power of legislating over California "is vested in Congress, and not, as is assumed, in the...

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Correspondence between Mr. Webster and his New Hampshire neighbors

Published by Gideon & Co., Printers. Cover page is signed: "to S.B. Little, Esq., from C. P. Smith, Washington, D.C." Contains a letter of approbation from Webster's supporters in New Hampshire regarding his popular role as a defender of the...

GLC00267.377

Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, on the "Measures of Adjustment," delivered in the City Hall, Chicago, October 23, 1850.

Printed by Gideon & Co., printers. Douglas discusses slavery and the Compromise of 1850. Appears to have been removed from previous binding.

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Speech of Hon. S. A. Douglas, of Illinois, in the Senate, January 30, 1854, on the Nebraska Territory.

Printed at the Sentinel Office. Disbound; original yellow cover visible on spine. "Is not the question involved the simple one, whether the people of the Territories shall be allowed to do as they please upon the question of slavery, subject only...

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Maintain plighted faith: speech of Hon. S. P. Chase, of Ohio, in the Senate, February 3, 1854, against the repeal of the Missouri phohibition of slavery North of 36 30'.

Printed at the Congressional Globe Office. Removed from previous binding. Contains stab-stitching. Of the Missouri Prohibition, states, "...I believe that we are upon the verge of another era. That era will be the Era of REACTION... But you may...

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Speech of the Hon. Truman Smith, of Connecticut, on the Nebraska question. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 10 and 11, 1854.

Printed by John T. and Lem. Towers. Original blue wrapper. "I have sometimes thought... that the North is in danger of being sold out, and that we are to be reduced to servitude. I can hardly believe we are in much danger. It is proper however...

GLC00267.381

Freedom and public faith: speech of William H. Seward, on the abrogation of the Missouri Compromise, in the Kansas and Nebraska bills.

Printed by Buell & Blanchard, printers. Removed from previous binding. Contains stamp "Withdrawn from Watkinson Library Trinity College." Argues "The general authority of Congress over the Territories is one wisely confided to the National...

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Speech of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, on the report of the Kansas investigating committee, in the case of Reeder against Whitfield.

Removed from previous binding. "If Whitfield is to be ousted because he was not elected in pursuance of any valid law, upon what principle can Reeder be put in by this House, when in his case there was neither law nor votes... It is the principle of...

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Speeches of Hon. Humphrey Marshall & Hon. B.F. Hallett, in the city of Washington, on the nomination of Breckinridge and Lane.

Humphrey and Hallett announce their support for John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane for the democratic presidential and vice-presidential nomination in the 1860 election. Printed by McGill & Witherow. Marked "Breckinridge and Lane campaign...

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Minority report of Mr. Stevens, delegate from Oregon, showing the grounds upon which the regular southern delegation...

Title continues, " ... were entitled to seats in the convention at the Front Street Theatre, Baltimore. Mr. Leach's protest against the exclusion of their delegates." Issued by the National Democratic Executive Committee. Marked, "Breckinridge...

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Letter of the Secretary of War, transmitting report on the organization of the Army of the Potomac...

Title continues " ... and its campaigns in Virginia and Maryland, under the Command of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, from July 26, 1861 to November 7, 1862." Printed by the government printing office, Washington, D.C. Cloth bead binding.

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Report of Carl Schurz.

Paper bound, stab-stitched. Contains "information in relation to the States of the Union lately in rebellion, accompanied by a report of Carl Schurz on the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana; also a report of...

GLC00267.391

Andrew Johnson on Negro Suffrage

[Title continued] His letter to Gov. Sharkey of Mississippi. Reconstruction era printing of Johnson's letter commending the governor's convention to amend the state constitution. In the letter, Johnson also attacks the radical Republicans.

GLC00269

to B. Darwin Ames

David Wilmot grants Ames's request for an autograph. Apologizes for the delay in his response. References the Wilmot Proviso, writing "For the kind terms in which you have been pleased to speak of my efforts to arrest the progress of Slavery, accept...

GLC00271

to J. E. Boos

Charles T. Williams certifies that he served in the Union Army (in the 1st New Jersey Infantry and the 1st New Jersey Cavalry) for three years and nine months during the Civil War. During that time he was a prisoner of war for eighteen months, twelve...

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