1837/04/09

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Johnston Livingston re: instructions for tending the garden

GLC03107.04120

1835/09/04

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Letter signed

Title: to T. Grover et. al.

Jackson refuses to send a copy of a letter in which he describes his feelings of Pennsylvania Governor Wolf on the grounds that doing so would interfere with a state election, and thus goes against his personal beliefs.

GLC07902

1859/12/06

Realf, Richard, fl. 1859

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Judge Duval

Offering a confession for his participation in the Canada Convention of 1858 and presenting himself for punishment in response to his actions. Also elaborating on the reasons for his participation. In part: "Sir: I have the honor to announce to you that, for the reasons which follow, I am desirious of surrendering myself...to the Constitutional authorities of the United States, as being, by my admission in the presense of witnesses, guilty of participation in the Canada Convention of May, 1838, which, it is suppossed, gave rise to the recent Harper's Ferry Insurrection....[My reasons…

GLC07886

1833/03/23

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Deputy Tardieu [in French]

Hopes for liberty. Written on stationery of the English Hotel.

GLC07892

1859/11/25

Wise, Henry A., 1806-1876

Letter

Title: to James Buchanan re: conspiracy to free John Brown

Copy of letter sent and signed by Henry A. Wise to President Buchannan regarding the plot to free John Brown from his cell in Charlestown, Virginia. Wise explicitly states that he has amassed over one thousand men at arms (militia) and is prepared to call upon Virginia's entire reserve should the conspirators make any attempts at releasing Brown.

GLC07897

1843/10/14

Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Robert C. Wood.

Criticism of abolitionists and mention of a "fracas" involving Cherokees dissatisfied about the results of their election.

GLC07905

1847/05/16

Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Robert Wood

Taylor suggests that if he were to be nominated for the United States Presidency he would have to decline until after the Mexican War was over, and that it would have to be for the good of a nation and not that of a party. Taylor states that "There can be no lack of officers of every grade in N- Orleans, and the number will be augmented very soon as the times of all the twelve month [regiments] is about to expire." Taylor goes on to say that he got a letter from General Winfield Scott on "the 24th ulto" stating he had beaten Santa Anna in a battle. The fact that they [the Mexicans],…

GLC07906

1837/03/01

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Capt. A. Neal.

Sam Houston ordering Neal to pay Mr. Robinson with cattle.

GLC07911

1836/04/04

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Solomon Lincoln Esq.

Pontificating on the history and intentions of the Pilgrims and the Founding Fathers, and on the important principles to be learned from America's collective history. Also giving his views on freedom of religion and freedom of speech and the limits that should be put upon them;. also frankly discussing his ambiguous feelings about the issue of slavery. In part: "I would not undertake to say that the one hundred and one Germans of the compact on board the Mayflower, had all, or any of them, a conception of the consequences to the human race, of their emigration from Leyden; any more than…

GLC07868

1829/04/14

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: to B[enjamin] Romaine, Esq.

Expressing his views on impending Constitutional reforms. In part: "On the subject that of Constitutional Reforms....it will be well for the States who are latest in performing the task, not to lose sight of the advantage which that circumstance gives them. There is a pretty general concurrence here as to the chief defects in the Constitution which is about to be revised. I wish there may be an equal one in the proper remedies. I hope, at least, that everything tending to undermine the General Constitution will be avoided with the same care which guards against encroachments on the…

GLC07873

1829/05/18

Mitchell, Samuel L., fl. 1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Romaine, Esq.

Regarding friction in the early 19th century America and the rise of various secession movements. In part: "That a few mad or unfortunate persons of the old federal party might have thought of dissolving the confederacy, is despicable enough; but I never thought they could have carried the population of the New England States with them in such a treasonable and suicidal measure."

GLC07875

1860/10/30

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [John B. Floyd]

Comments on an untitled essay he wrote which dealt with the topics of succession and the tensions between the Northern and Southern states. In part: "Gen. Scott is all solicitude for the safety of the Union. He is, however, not without hope that all dangers & difficulties will pass away without leaving a scar or a painful recollection behind..."

GLC07876.01

1860/10/29

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

Manuscript document signed

Title: Views suggested by the imminent danger of a disruption of the Union by...

GLC07876.02

1857/07/20

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [B. Clarke Lundy] re: publication of his speech on Dred Scott and Utah

Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. II 1848 - 1858, p. 412

GLC07855

1848/05/03

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dr. James L. Ord re: early military career in California

GLC07857

[1860/05/14-18]

Keyes, John S., fl. 1860

Autograph manuscript

Title: Daily journal of Massachusetts delegation to Republican National Convention

GLC07863.01

1860/05/16

Vorhees, N.W., fl. 1860

Autograph note signed

Title: [Resolution of New Jersey Delegation]

One manuscript page (in the hand of N. W. Voorhees, Secretary) in which the New Jersey Delegation responds to the Massachusetts Delegation's communication with a resolution of their own, instructing and informing the Delegates from Massachusetts that "William L. Dayton is the first choice of New Jersey, and that they can carry the State with him; and that the Delegation are not prepared at this present time to state what their second and third choice of Candidates may be." Validated as "A true copy," also in Voorhees' hand.

GLC07863.02

1860/05/21

Keyes, John S., fl. 1860

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Draft of a resolution of thanks]

A communication from the Headquarters of the Massachusetts Delegation to the Republican Convention, Chicago (from the Secretary of that Delegation) thanking Governor Randall of Wisconsin "for the kind and liberal invitation to us to an execution over the North Western Railroad to Madison...and for his thoughtful care for our comfort and pleasure" during a recent trip to the city. Obviously a draft; heavily corrected throughout.

GLC07863.03

1829/07/02

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Amos Kendall.

Jackson states that as long as one looks to the land as their guide and keeps justice the "end in sight," they shall maintain the support of the people.

GLC07914

1851/11/06

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: James M.H. Beale.

Forney, a pro-slavery candidate, was "in favor of the maintenance and faithful execution of the fugitive slave laws...and of the suppression of all further agitation of the slavery question."

GLC07927

1833/08/28

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tilghman Ashurst Howard

Constitution, slavery, banking, methods of electing the President: "If I can...only succeed in banishing...corrupting influences...on the Constitution and [attempts] to make the government an engine of oppression to the people instead of the agent of their will..."

GLC07931

1843/05/08

Story, Joseph, 1779-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: John McDonogh.

Discusses "the rights of master and the interests of the slave" in reference to the idea of African colonization.

GLC07932

1837/06/14

Eustis, Abraham, fl. 1837

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Doctor Robert Archer

Requesting the doctor's observations on the "effects produced on the channel, the bar, and the more western wharves, by the repeated extension of the eastern, or steamboat wharf, and your opinion of the probable effects to be produced by its further extension." Also includes a two page response from Dr. Archer on the verso. Eustis (1786-1843) was the first commander of Fort Monroe and the founder of its Artillery school. He rose to the rank of Brevet Brigadier General. Written at Fort Monroe.

GLC01896.009

1838/01/28

Archer, Edward R., fl. 1830-1917

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: to Mr. Gates & Mr. Leater

After an Indian named Ocula Powell accosted General Thompson and accused him of intruding in his country, Thompson arrested Powell, confined him to the guard house, and demanded an apology and assurances of his future good conduct. After he initially responded with rage, Powell eventually promises friendship toward whites but the General doesn't believe him and asks for his words to be backed by a more trusted Chief. Powell agrees to sign but Thompson believes him insincere since he had been coerced into doing so, and so lets him go back to his people to return in 10 days when he is more…

GLC01896.010

1853/12/23

Neafie, Alfred, fl. 1853

Letter signed

Title: to: Cousin Carrie.

Life in Grass Valley, includes a request for information about the family back East. Included in the letter was a folded sheet of paper which included several fragments of panned gold.

GLC07164.07