April 1853

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Header Record

Title: Collection of two items related to James Buchanan [Decimalized]

GLC00467

April 28, 1853

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William L. Herst

Comments on the appointment of James Burnside to chairman of the Central Committee of the state that Herst made. Indicates that he would like to support him. Written from his estate, Wheatland, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

GLC00467.01

1860

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Pamphlet

Title: 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, with a Constitution forbidding slavery. Time has passed; but the question remains."

GLC08445.01

1867

United States. Supreme Court

Pamphlet

Title: 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 Indiana. Published by the Union Congressional Executive Committee, Washington, D.C. Printed by Chronicle Print.

GLC08445.02

1884

Greenleaf, Halbert S., 1827-1906

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Hon. Halbert S. Greenleaf of New York, in the House of Representatives, Saturday, January 19, 1884.

Representative Greenleaf discusses the court-martial of General Fitz-John Porter. In support of Porter, concludes "Why, then, in view of these clearly established facts, should we longer delay this simple act of justice to a most meritorious but much-abused soldier? Why wait for a more auspicious day? Why wait till this perfectly innocent man has gone down with his gray hairs in sorrow to the grave? Let us act, here and now... I support this bill for his relief with all my heart..."

GLC08445.04.01

1809

Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849

Pamphlet

Title: Letter from the Secretary of Treasury...

Submitted by Albert Gallatin as Sec. of Treasury. With fold-out "Statement" of salaries for the Department

GLC08445.06

1974/08/20

Rodino, Peter W., 1909-2005

Book

Title: Impeachment of Richard M. Nixon President of the United States

Report of the Committee on the Judiciary House of Representatives, chaired by Congressman Peter W. Rodino during the 2nd session of the 93 congress. Report No. 93-1305. A table of contents appears on page 5.

GLC08445.09

5 May 1866

Foster, Lafayette Sabine, 1806-1880

Letter signed

Title: to Senor Abraham L. Dovale

Co-signed by Schuyler Colfax as Speaker of the House. Invitation to a memorial ceremony for Abraham Lincoln to be held at the Hall of the House.

GLC08450

1856-1857

Pamphlet

Title: State legislatures' resolutions regarding Kansas and slavery [Decimalized .01-.08]

34th Congress House of Representatives Miscellaneous Documents. Contains resolutions passed by the state legislatures of Kentucky, Ohio, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, Iowa, and Michigan. Apparently disbound from a larger volume. Accompanied by wrapper with identification statements written in ink.

GLC08452

1814/10/10

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President [re: conditions for peace]

Printed by C. Weightman

GLC08453

4 June 1860

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Pamphlet

Title: The barbarism of slavery. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state. In the United State Senate, June 4, 1860.

Printed by Buell & Blanchard. Sumner calls the Missouri Compromise "the fatal partition between Freedom and Slavery." Uncut. Accompanied by address leaf cut from this pamphlet's original transmission wrapper (GLC08454.02). Edges are brittle and frayed.

GLC08454.01

February 30, 1815

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President [transmitting Treaty of Peace]

Printed by Roger C. Weightman

GLC08455

13-14 February 1850

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, on the subject of slavery in the territories.

Senator Davis, future President of the Confederacy, speech made while a member of Congress. Responds to resolutions introduced by Senator Henry Clay pertaining to the Compromise of 1850. Davis asks, "...is there such incompatibility of interest between the two sections of this country that they cannot profitable live together? Does the agriculture of the South injure the manufactures of the North? On the other hand are they not their life-blood?"

GLC08461

19 April 1862

Adair, George Washington, 1823-1899

Newspaper

Title: Southern confederacy [Vol. 3, no. 57 (April 19, 1863)]

Published by Adair and J. Henry Smith (1820-1897). B.C. Smith is the associate editor. Tag line below masthead says "The Public Good Before Private Advantage." Masthead vignette depicts an industrialized Southern Confederacy. Announces the beginning of the Vicksburg campaign on page 3. Front page has a mocking description of "A Model Yankee Officer." Various letters printed on page 2-3, including one from British Minister to America, Lord Lyons, to Earl Russell. Several advertisements for a reward for the return of deserters. Also ads for slave sales. With ownership stamp of the "Tennessee…

GLC08492

15 March 1864

Harding, Frank, fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Nathan Harding

Written at Camp Berry, possibly Washington, D.C. Written on Magnus "Dying soldier" stationery. A soldier's letter addressed to his parents. Written on color stationery showing a soldier being borne-up by an angel. Year inferred from date written in contemporary hand on envelope and from stamped postmark. Soldier's family name and recipient's name inferred from envelope.

GLC08501

11 May 1855

Bryan, Francis Theodore, 1823-1917

Letter signed

Title: to Mary Williams Shepard

Lieutenant Bryan, a topographical engineer, writes to his mother from the steamer Australia on the Missouri River. Relates visiting Washington, D. C., St. Louis, Missouri, and Indianapolis, among other locations. States that "the people all appear to be very busy in this part of the country ... They are the most active, busy, go-a-head people I ever saw." Comments on the land in Illinois and Indiana, and the rapid settlement of the west. Relates his plans to join Generals Churchill (possibly Sylvester Churchill) and Clarke to inspect Fort Riley, Kansas. Relates his plans for the rest of…

GLC08506

2 January 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Printed document

Title: General Orders no. 1: Emancipation Proclamation

Army printing of the final version of the Emancipation Proclamation, three pages, accompanied by General Orders no. 7, 10, 22, 24, 30 and 35. This is the first six pages of a compilation of General Orders for 1863. Printed in 1864.

GLC08525

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

1856

Pamphlet

Title: Conspiracy disclosed! Kansas Affairs. Read! Read!! Read!!!

An attack on Fremont and the Republican in the election of 1856. Published by the Granite State Club, Washington. Contains map intitled "Freedom and Slavery, and the Coveted Territories."

GLC08535

1917-1918

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Document

Title: [Presidential proclamations and executive orders]

Proclamations dealing with war with Germany, emergency powers, and armistices.

GLC08540

1868 ca.

Pamphlet

Title: Seymour, Vallandigham and the Riots of 1863

Claims Seymour and Confederate spies instigated the riots. Includes affidavit of Francis Johns, Commander of the steamer, Harriet Pinckney.

GLC08445.03

[1866?]

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

Pamphlet

Title: The record of the Democratic Party [election campaign]

An anti-Democratic Party election pamphlet. With original paper wrappers.

GLC08445.05

1845/02/05

Eastman, Charles G., fl. 1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. T. Fields re: his poetry with copy of poem [Indian related]

Charles Eastman was a Sioux Indian, Dartmouth graduate and friend of Sitting Bull.

GLC08445.07

1841/03/04 ca.

S. F. J. (Orator)

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Biographical oration on President William Henry Harrison, for election?]

Post-election day eulogy, delivered on the day of WHH's inauguration (?), per p.1. Signed with initials at end "S.F.J."

GLC08445.08

February 3, 1864

Drake, George Bernard, 1838-1921

Pamphlet

Title: Regulations for the government of Negroes and plantations.

Issued by command of Major General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks. Provides for the division of parishes, the establishment of schools for black children, forbids soldiers to visit plantations without written consent of their commanding officer, forbids flogging and other cruel punishments, calls for employers to implement share cultivation and the establishment of banks, etc. Drake issues the order as Assistant Adjutant General.

GLC08446