1861

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

Pamphlet

Title: A system of national finance. Notes explanatory of Mr. Chase's plan of national finance.

Explains Chase's plan for creating a national currency and enabling all existing banks to become national institutions. Printed by the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

GLC08704

January 14, 1863

Vallandigham, Clement L., 1820-1871

Pamphlet

Title: The great Civil War in America : speech of Hon. Clement Laird Vallandigham, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, January 14, 1863

In this speech, Vallandigham criticizes President Lincoln's execution of the Civil War. Vallandigham of Dayton, Ohio, was elected to Congress in 1858 as a Democrat. He strongly supported states' rights, including the right to regulate slavery although he was personally opposed to it.

GLC08706

1800/04/02

Pamphlet

Title: Letter from the Secretary of Treasury... on the petition of Benjamin Wells

GLC08708

10 April 1779

Dunlap, John, 1747-1812

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania packet.

Proclamation by George Washington issuing a full pardon to all deserters who return to their corps by 1 May 1779, and warning those who do not return of punishment. Proclamation dated 10 March 1779 from Middle-Brook, New Jersey. Act made law by the Pennsylvania legislature to raise $1, 900,000 from taxes in the state. Reaction in the House of Commons dated 5 December 1778 to a proclamation issued by commissioners in New York. Tolls for bridge over Schuylkill River. Advertisements for sales, statements regarding lost horses, and other advertisements.

GLC08715.01

25 May 1779

Dunlap, John, 1747-1812

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania packet.

Proclamation by George Washington extending the deadline from 1 May 1779 to 5 July 1779 for deserters to receive a full pardon by returning to their corps. Proclamation dated 22 April 1779 from Middle-Brook, New Jersey. Original pardon proclamation in 10 April 1779 issue of the Pennsylvania Packet (GLB00317.01). Supplement passed by the Pennsylvania legislature to an act funding the state's defense. Supplement passed by the Pennsylvania legislature to an act settling the accounts of the Committee and Council of Safety. News from various cities about the Revolutionary War. Public notices…

GLC08715.02

7 March 1782

Claypoole, David C., fl. 1757-1849

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania packet. [Vol. 41, no. 855 (May 7, 1782)]

Proclamation by George Washington issuing a full pardon to all deserters who return to their corps by 1 June 1782, and warning those who do not return of punishment. Proclamation dated 8 February 1782 from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Article titled "Common Sense, To the People of America. On the Expenses, Arrangements and Disbursements for carrying on the War, and finishing it with Honour and Advantage." Reports on debates in British Parliament. Advertisements for various sales.

GLC08715.03

6 January 1800

Hudson & Goodwin, fl. 1787-1800

Newspaper

Title: The Connecticut courant. [Vol. 35, No. 182 (January 6, 1800)]

Includes President John Adams' statement recommending a thirty-day mourning period to the people of the United States in memory of George Washington, who died 14 December 1799. Contains a tribute to Washington in place of the Courant's usual New Year's address. Includes domestic and foreign news, notices of sale, and announcements. Frayed along the edges and taped along the seams.

GLC08716

1897

McKinley, William, 1843-1901

Object

Title: McKinley-Roosevelt campaign button [no ribbon]

GLC08629

1850-1870 ca.

Currier & Ives

Header Record

Title: [Collection of seven Currier & Ives lithographs]

GLC08630

1884

Flower, Frank A., fl. 1884

Book

Title: History of the Republican Party [with 2 facsimile election tickets]

GLC08631

1864

Pamphlet

Title: The Lincoln catechism wherein the eccentricities & beauties of despotism are fully set forth. A Guide to the Presidential Election of 1864.

A vitriolic racist attack on Lincoln in the form of a mock catechism. A list of sarcastic questions and answers which accuse Lincoln of tyranny and the Republicans of destroying the Constitution. Title page proclaims the pamphlet is "A guide to the presidential election of 1864." Questions and answers include "By Whom hath the Constitution been made obsolete? By Abraham Africanus the First." and "What is a President? A genral agent for negroes." States the first commandment of the Republicans is "Thou shalt have no other God but the negro." Includes comments about miscegenation and…

GLC08632

30 August 1864

Elmore, Edward Carrington, fl. 1861-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George H. Poindexter

Elmore, Confederate Treasurer, discusses the activities of G. W. Butler, a late Teller in the Treasury. Informs Poindexter, a Lieutenant and Enlistment Officer, that Treasury clerks have had little time to work on Butler's accounts. States that several million Treasury notes related to these accounts are held in Columbia, South Carolina, and have been shipped to Richmond based on the request of George Alfred Trenholm, Confederate Secretary of the Treasury. States that due to the busy condition of the Treasury, he can offer no estimate regarding the settlement of Butler's accounts.…

GLC08633

1810/12/24

Cabot, George, 1752-1823

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas Willing

Worries about his bank's debt and existing loans, but feels that he can get by. Admits that the bank may soon be terminated since its charter is about to run out. Wishes for instructions on how to act in the face of potential doom. Suggests that in the case of termination, the State banks be used for "the winding up of our affairs."

GLC08634

December 1864

Yates, Richard, 1815-1873

Printed document signed

Title: [Certification of Illinois electors for U.S. President and Vice President]

Signed by Yates as Governor of Illinois and countersigned by O.M. Hatch as Secretary of State. For the presidential election of 1864.

GLC08635

1796

Paine, Thomas, 1725-1802

Pamphlet

Title: Decline and fall of the English system of finance

Printed by John Page and B.F. Bache.

GLC08637

1 September 1861

Dawes, Rufus Robinson, 1838-1899

Printed document signed

Title: [Invoice of ordnance and ordnance stores, 6th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry]

Signed by Dawes as Captain of Company "K" in the 6th Wisconsin Volunteers. Printed form filled out by hand listing ordnance stores Dawes turned over to Colonel Lysander Cutler. Written at Camp Kalorama.

GLC08638

1753-1755

Massey, Samuel, fl. 1753-1755

Manuscript signed

Title: Samuel Massey's version book

Page 1, which is dated 5 March 1753, notes that he has shipped sixteen barrels of bread to Barbados on board the Rebecca, a ship under the command of James Lowther. The shipment is consigned to Jonathan and John Mifflan. Exact title reads "Saml Masseys version book."

GLC08639

1860

Bell, John, 1797-1869

Object

Title: Political token: Ferrotype portrait of Bell and Edward Everett

GLC08641

1836

Grimke, Angelina E., 1805-1879

Pamphlet

Title: Appeal to the Christian women of the south

Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society. Among other arguments, Grimke denounces Biblical justifications of slavery. Loosely bound with string.

GLC08642

1793

Paine, Thomas, 1725-1802

Book

Title: Common sense [with seven other pamphlets from the 1790s]

Paine, Thomas. COMMON SENSE, bound with seven other tracts by Paine. Altogether eight works (in nine parts, one title consisting of two separately issued parts.) A fine collection bound in a single volume, contemp. sheep rubbed, crudely but neatly rebacked early in sheep; in very good condition throughout. These are all (with the possible exception of #4) reprints but they are early, generally within the first or second year of the original; some are rare according to NUC; the various publishers, Symonds, Williams, Jordan, and Ridgeway, represent (with the notable absence of D.I. Eaton)…

GLC08643

1867

Boutwell, George Sewall, 1818-1905

Book

Title: Speeches and Papers Relating to the Rebellion and the Overthrow of Slavery

Published by Little, Brown & Co. in Boston. Stereotyped and printed by John Wilson and Son in Cambridge. Dedicated to the citizens of Groton, who supported Boutwell in his career as a public servant. Contains 35 chapters, each one a different speech by Boutwell from the years 1861-1867. Contains 4 appendices on pages 605-615 with copies of various Congressional Acts and Constitutional amendments. Index at pages 619-628. Green pebbled cloth cover.

GLC08645

30 December 1860

Cadwalader, George, ?-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Sherman

Cadwalader, a Sacramento lawyer, discusses California politics with Sherman, a United State Senator from Ohio. Reports that the California presidential election will be held on the following day, with Lincoln holding a 134 count majority over Stephen A. Douglas. Referring to a different election, reports that James William Denver, a former United States Representative from California, "is the only person who can be elected." Discusses the postponement of an election in California in order to find a Republican associate for Colonel Edward Dickinson Baker, a United States Representative from…

GLC08647

7 November 1849

Hutchinson, James P., fl. 1849

Document signed

Title: [Hutchinson's deposition regarding the theft of slaves] [fragment]

Location inferred from content. Hutchinson relates the theft of slaves by a group of armed men in Montgomery County, Texas, 1847. Hutchinson claims a group of men with Mr. Stoneum stole slaves from the Fowler plantation "by force of arms." First and last pages are written on quarter sheets. Second-fifth pages numbered 19-22; portion of a larger court document.

GLC08648

1863-1865

Header Record

Title: Collection related to the Freedmen's Department of Memphis [Decimalized .01-.12]

Pertains to a project to aid freed slaves by the army. Most documents in this collection are related to T. A. Walker, who served as Superintendent of Freedmen, District of West Tennessee. Consists mostly of financial records, and contains documentation related to President's Island.

GLC08649

1788/02/13

J. Dunlap and D.C. Claypoole, 1784-1790

Newspaper

Title: The Pennsylvania packet, and daily advertiser. [No. 2816 (February 13, 1788)]

Reports on the ratification of the Constitution by Massachusetts. Recounts the proceedings of the New York Senate. Contains various advertisements and a promotional article for a book concerning the geography and topography of the United States, addressed "To the Friends of Science."

GLC08650