July 3, 1862

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Wallace J. Ford

Then Brigadier General Garfield writes to a friend at home about "the congressional affair" shortly after he aided in the Battle of Corinth. He comments about his poor health and his weight loss. Back in Ohio, Garfield's friends were urging him to run for the 19th congressional district's seat, but he tells Ford he does not want his name "to go before a Convention at all unless there is more than an even chance that I would be successful." He describes military preparations for a Fourth of July celebration and the nearby Disciples of Christ, one of which he describes as a secessionist "…

GLC00261

May 11, 1821

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dr. David Hosack

The letter is free franked. Jefferson thanks Hosack for a paper on Nosology, or classification of diseases, a topic that might have interested a man of science like Jefferson, since classification might help find cures. He soon turns to the exciting news of a revolution in Naples which, he writes "secures the efforts of Spain & Portugal, and must cheer the mind of every man of Philanthropy with the prospect it holds up of the extension of representative government to the whole continent of Europe except Russia which too in the end will become capable of it. In what a glorious station does…

GLC00262

1693

Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728

Book

Title: The Wonders of the Invisible world: Being an Account of the Tryals... [witches]

One of the most famous of early New England books, here in the first British edition printed at London, following the first edition published in Boston the same year. Mather meant to expose witchcraft and to support his friends in the government. He gives detailed descriptions of each case, thus providing an invaluable record. All the early editions of this work are extremely rare, especially the Boston edition and the present one. Printed by John Dunton, with errors in pagination and spelling: "Ex[e]cuted" "Bostun" and "Gove[r]nour" on titlepage (per NUC). Small quarto in 19th century…

GLC00264

18 July 1798 ca.

Header Record

Title: Broadsides and pamphlets including appointment as commander [Decimalized .01-.04]

[decimalized 00265.01-00265.04]

GLC00265

18 April 1794

United States. Congress

Broadside

Title: Resolution: "That the present Embargo be continued"

Signed by Edmund Randolph as Secretary of State. Concerning the Quasi-War with France. States that the present Enbargo be continued until "the twenty fifth day of May next."

GLC00265.01

26 March 1798

United States. Congress

Broadside

Title: A Motion: establishing embargo, fortifying ports and raising an army

The motion was a result of the Quasi-War with France. Document is slashed on lower right corner. Formerly pencilled "Duplicate."

GLC00265.02

04 May 1798

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Pamphlet

Title: Message of the President of the United States, to both houses

Dated May 4, 1798. Stab-stitched as issued. Regarding negotiations with France to end the Quasi-War, and report from Ambassadors

GLC00265.03

October 8, 1819

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Monroe

Recommends Crittenden, acting Governor of the Arkansas Territory, to President Monroe for an unidentified post. Refers to an enclosed letter from Crittenden (not included).

GLC00266

1846

Palfrey, John G., 1796-1881

Pamphlet

Title: Papers on the slave power, first published in the "Boston Whig."

Signed on title page by John Day Putnam. Printed by Merrill, Cobb & Co., Boston, Massachusetts. Papers numbered 1-24 argue against slavery by discussing its place in the constitution, the North's role in it, the consequences of overthrowing it, and what the free states, especially Massachusetts, should do about it, among other issues.

GLC00267.002

1858

Weston, George M., 1816-1887

Pamphlet

Title: The Progress of slavery in the United States.

Describes the past progress of slavery and considers circumstances that will control the slavery movement in the future. Argues that the growing slave population in the U.S. was an intended result of the territorial expansion of slavery dictated by the interests of those that own and breed slaves. Curbing its expansion will be beneficial to the Southern states.

GLC00267.005

February 2, 1846

Chappell, Absalom Harris, 1801-1878

Printed document

Title: Resolutions of the legislature of Georgia

[Title continued] in opposition to the principles of certain resolves of the legislature of Massachusetts in relation to an amendment of the constitution on the subject of federal representation. Copy of a resolution by the Georgia Legislature, printed for the twenty ninth Congress. The resolution is in opposition to a call by the Massachusetts legislature to repeal the three fifths voting clause of the Constitution. Likely printed in Washington, D.C. First edition.

GLC00267.006

1832

United States. Census Office. 5th census, 1830

Pamphlet

Title: Abstract of the returns of the fifth census, showing the number of free people, the number of slaves...

Title continues "...the federal or representative number, and the aggregate of each county of each state of the United States." 22nd Congress, 1st session, Doc no. 263. Printed by Duff Green, Washington, D.C.

GLC00267.008

1862

Kennedy, J.C.G., 1813-1887

Book

Title: Preliminary report on the eighth census. 1860.

37th Congress, 2nd session (1861-1862), House Executive Document No. 116. Index included in first pages. Inscribed in pencil on inner front cover to C. S. Van Wyck from C. H. Van Wyck. Charles Henry Van Wyck was a New York Congressman, later a Union brevet brigadier general and U.S. senator from Nebraska.

GLC00267.009

1862

Kennedy, Joseph C.G., fl. 1862

Book

Title: Preliminary report on the 8th census of 1860 (Copy 2)

Sabin 37428.

GLC00267.010

January 11, 1828

South Carolina General Assembly, Senate

Pamphlet

Title: Report of a special committee of the Senate of South Carolina on the Resolution submitted by Mr. Ramsay on the Subject of State Rights.

Marked 20th Congress, 1st Session. Printed by Duff Green. Report of a committee formed to inquire into the various issues of states' rights, the Constitution, and the power of the federal government within the states. The report supports states' rights and promotes a strict constructivist position opposing tariffs and improvements within particular states that are not for the common defense. First edition.

GLC00267.015

January 16, 1833

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Pamphlet

Title: State of the Union. Message from the President of the United States, on the state of the Union.

House document no. 45, 22nd Congress, 2nd session. Transmits all the relevant documents relating to the South Carolina nullification controversy. First edition. Uncut.

GLC00267.017

16 February 1833

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Mr. Webster, in the senate, in reply to Mr. Calhoun's speech on the bill "Further to provide for the collection of duties on imports."

Response to John C. Calhoun's bill "Further to provide for the collection of duties on imports," which opposed the tariff bills passed. Webster attacks the states' rights language underlying Calhoun's resolutions, analyzes their language (and that of the Constitution) and argues that nullification is not provided for in the Constitution. First edition. Printed by Gales and Seaton.

GLC00267.018

06 April 1836

United States. Congress (24th, 1st session : 1835-1836). House

Printed document

Title: Amend the Constitution of the United States

[Title continued] memorial of citizens of North Carolina, upon the subject of amending the Constitution of the United States.Twenty seven petitioners request: "In case that any State in the Union, either by the Legislature thereof, or by a convention chosen by the people of the same, shall solemnly declare their belief that any act which is or may be passed by both houses of Congress and approved by the President of the United States, is unconstitutional, the said State, by their Legislature or convention, shall make up a case, containing the grounds of their belief of its unconstitutionality…

GLC00267.020

1837

Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850

Header Record

Title: [Two senate motions] [Decimalized .01-.02]

Two motions, one submitted by John C. Calhoun and one by John Norvell. Calhoun's resolution is well-known for establishing the orthodox state rights position. In his resolution, Norvell, the Democratic-Republican Senator from Michigan, agrees with Calhoun.

GLC00267.021

5 February 1839

Thompson, Waddy, 1798-1868

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Waddy Thompson of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives of the United States, being in Committee of the whole on the state of the union.

Favors states' rights and criticizes former President Andrew Jackson as "a man who has done more to break down all the landmarks of the Constitution, and to consolidate all power in this Federal Government, than every other man who has preceded him." Opposes all programs favored by the industrializing North and West. Printed at the Madisonian Office, Washington, D.C.

GLC00267.024

20 May 1846

Michigan, Legislature

Pamphlet

Title: Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan relative to leasing of the mineral lands.

House document no. 204. 29th Congress, 1st session. Discusses Michigan state rights. Denies the right of the federal government to lease federal mineral lands if the state where the lands are located is opposed to it. Includes report of Flavius J. Littlejohn of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate of Michigan "in relation to the sovereign right of Michigan to the mines and minerals within her borders."

GLC00267.025

December 2, 1817

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President of the United States, to both houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the fifteenth Congress.

Monroe reports that Amelia Island, near the Georgia boundary, had been seized and was "being made a channel for the illicit introduction of slaves from Africa into the United States, an asylum for fugitive slaves from the neighboring states, and a port of smuggling of every kind." He calls for its suppression. Printed by Edward De Krafft, Printer, Washington City.

GLC00267.030

January 10,1818

United States. Congress

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the Committee to whom was referred so much of the President's Message as relates to the introduction of slaves from Amelia Island.

The report reflects the early distaste for the slave trade in the U.S. House Document 46, 15th Congress, 1st session. Accompanied with a bill supplementary to the act, to prohibit the importation of enslaved people into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States: passed 2d March 1807. Endpaper states: "The first copy of this report being incorrectly printed, is to be cancelled, and this copy substituted." First edition (thus).

GLC00267.031

26 March 1818

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President of the United States ... relating to the occupation of Amelia Island.

Full title reads, "Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 20th instant, information, not heretofore communicated, relating to the occupation of Amelia Island." House Document 175. Printed by E. De Krafft. Amelia Island is an island off the coast of Florida that was under Spanish control before being occupied.

GLC00267.032

December 7, 1824

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President of the United States, to both houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress.

Describes the joint efforts of the U.S. and Britain to suppress the slave trade, which the Monroe administration proposed to define as piracy. Also discusses the rights of U.S. vessels during recent wars. Document no. 2. Printed by Gales & Seaton. Stitched.

GLC00267.033