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Address to the reader of the documents relating to the Galveston Bay....

One of the first accounts of Texas written in English. Printed by G.F. Hopkins and Sons. Graff 1494, Howes S1137.

GLC04063

The New York conspiracy... with an introduction by Thomas J. Davis [reprint]

Paperback reprint by Beacon Press of Horsmanden's "A Journal of the Proceedings in the Detection of the Conspiracy formed by some White People in conjunction with Negro and other Slaves, for burning the City of New-York...."

GLC04205.02

Spirit of the Campaign Number One

Series: "Spirit of the Campaign Number One" Heading on the first page reads: "Compare the Principle, Acts and Men, of the Two Parties." Pro-Republican campaign material that characterizes the Democrats the Party of rebellion, Horatio Seymour the...

GLC04360.061

Spirit of the Campaign Number Two

Series: "Spirit of the Campaign Number Two" Heading on the first page reads: "The Candidates and the Doctrines of the Two Parties." Pro-republican campaign material attacks Seymour and the Democrats as anti-union during the war, and anti...

GLC04360.062

Spirit of the Campaign Number Three

Series: "Spirit of the Campaign Number Three" Heading on the first page reads: "Compare the Doctrines of the Two Parties." Pro-republican campaign material which cites former Confederates' support for Seymour and Blair (R. Semmes, Wise, Vance...

GLC04360.063

Mother, 1841-1914

This pamphlet provides a short family history of Lydia A. Bishoff, as well as a list of all of Bishoff's children.

GLC03523.40.34

David Stemple, 1816-1906

This pamphlet provides a short family history of Major David Stemple, Jr., as well as a list of all of Stemple's children.

GLC03523.40.35

Letter of Gerrit Smith to S.P. Chase, on the unconstitutionality of every part of American slavery

Published by S. W. Green, Patriot Office. Letter was written at Peterboro, New York 1 November 1847. Chase recently disagreed with Smith's resolution at the National Convention of the Liberty party that slavery is unconstitutional. Argues that the...

GLC04717.01

The true office of civil government. A speech in the city of Troy.

Printed by S. W. Benedict. Smith declares, "The legitimate action of Civil Government is very simple. Its legitimate range is very narrow. Government owes nothing to its subjects but protection... from crimes... committed against their persons and...

GLC04717.03

Controversy between New-York Tribune and Gerrit Smith.

Printed by John A. Gray. Correspondence covers the Tribune's report that Smith was absent from the House of Representatives on the evening of the passage of the Nebraska Bill. The Tribune recently acknowledged Smith was present, and voted against...

GLC04717.04

Three discourses on the religion of reason.

Covers, among other topics, the reflection of God in man and man's role and responsibility concerning religion.

GLC04717.05

Gerrit Smith and the vigilant association of the City of New York.

Published by John A. Gray, printer. Includes correspondence related to a law suit in which Gerrit Smith accuses several individuals of libel. In a manifesto, members of the Vigilant Association linked Smith's name with the Central Association, a...

GLC04717.06

Religion of reason, no. 4. The one test of character. A discourse by Gerrit Smith, in Peterboro, July twenty-second, 1860.

Published in New York City by Ross & Tousey. In closing, Smith writes, "The morals and manners of a church should be such, as to realize our highest conceptions of human dignity... Church of Peterboro! Be true to your own God at the approaching...

GLC04717.07

Gerrit Smith on religion.

Published by Sinclair Tousey. Includes a letter to Dr. G. B. Cheever (possibly George Barrell Cheever), "Discourse in Peterboro... The Good See: The Bad are Blind," a letter to Henry Ward Beecher on Stonewall Jackson, and a "Funeral Discourse in...

GLC04717.08

Speeches and letters of Gerrit Smith (from January, 1863, to January, 1864) on the rebellion.

Published by John A. Gray & Green, printers. Includes various letters and speeches by Smith.

GLC04717.09

Speeches and letters of Gerrit Smith (from January, 1864, to January, 1865), on the rebellion. Volume II.

Published by the American News Company. Contains Smith's opinion on the Constitution of the United States in relation to the Civil War, the Democratic Party, and other topics.

GLC04717.10

A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina, Comprehending the Rivers...

"A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina, Comprehending the Rivers Ohio, Kenhawa, Sioto, Cherokee, Wabash, Illinois, Mississippi, ect. The Climate, Soil and Produce, Whether Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral...

GLC03638.01

Biography of Paul and Charlotte Weitzel and their children

GLC03769.093

The Loyalist's Ammunition

A collection of seven individual works including a speech given at the Illinois Legislature, resolutions from a meeting of the 150th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and several newspaper excerpts. The topics include traitors in the Illinois...

GLC05255.02

Child of Satan, Child of God

Paperback copy of Atkins' book and book plate.

GLC05508.024.04

[Grace Livingston Hill advertising pamphlet]

Pamphlet published by J.B. Lippicott Company. Address and request to return handwritten on it by Hill. The front has a Bachrach photo of Hill and a publisher's dedication; the reverse has a list of Hill's novels. The pamphlet was included with a...

GLC05508.127.04

[Helen Keller].

Picture of Keller on the cover.

GLC05508.153.03

Southern literary messenger. [Vol. 33, no. 1 (July)]

A magazine devoted to Literature, Science and Art.
Exile and Empire
The true question: A contest for the supremacy of race
Conrad Clifford.
Gan-Eden
Juggernaut

GLC05959.75.01

Southern literary messenger. [Vol. 33, no. 11 & 12 (November & December]

History of the War - General Turner Ashby, Our liberation from Yankee Bondage is already developing in the field of literature.
Exile and Empire
Pocahontas
Red Hair

GLC05959.75.02

Southern literary messenger. [Vol. 37, No. 2] February 1863

History of the war.
French Appetite
A Sketch by "Skill"
How I Won Her
A Tale

GLC05959.75.03

Southern literary messenger. [Vol. 37, No. 3] March 1863

History of the war.
Cupid's Freak
A Molasses Stew in the Country
Scenes from the Life of a Bashful Man
A Horrible Scrape
Anecdotes of Paganini

GLC05959.75.04

Southern literary messenger. [Vol. 37, No. 3] March 1863

Copy of GLC05959.75.04.

GLC05959.75.05

Southern literary messenger. [Vol. 37, No. 4] April 1863

History of the War
The Triumph of Spring
Passion and Principle
John Bull Turned Quaker
Poland and Russia
The Sentinel's Reverie
Memory

GLC05959.75.06

Southern literary messenger. [Vol. 37, No. 5] May 1863

History of the War
A Hymn from St. Gregory the Great
On the Flank
A Southern Republic and a Northern Democracy
God
Chats Over my Pipe
Satirical Romance
It Might Have Been
Passion Flowers

GLC05959.75.07

Southern literary messenger. [Vol. 37, No. 6] June 1863

History of the War
The Bishop and the Knight
A Jungle Recollection
The Countersign
Agnes, A Novel
The Virginia and the Blockaders
Tannhauser
Tell Me My Love, Do the Shadowy Skies
Pete and the Painter

GLC05959.75.08

Southern literary messenger. [Vol. 37, No. 11 & 12] June 1863

History of the War
England's Neutrality
Agnes, A Novel
The Anglo-Saxon Mania
Sleep
Mr. Reginald's Brindled Dog
The Dying Soldier
The Jewish Nation and its History
Uprise, Ye Braves
Animal Language
Voiceless Verse

GLC05959.75.09

[General orders no. 61]

Announces the terms of surrender between Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith and Union General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby. Printed general orders. Christensen's rank was Lieutenant Colonel, Assistant Adjutant General.

GLC05987.09.02

13th annual report NAACP for the year 1922

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1923, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword states that the NAACP "has continued to carry out one of its most vital purposes, that of keeping intensely alive among the colored people of America the...

GLC06135.01

14th annual report NAACP for the year 1923

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1924, including President Moorfield Storey. An introductory letter from Storey asks for financial support from readers of the pamphlet. Foreword states that the NAACP "is striving; it is striving to vindicate...

GLC06135.02

17th annual report NAACP for the year 1926

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1927, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword states "More and more, has it been borne in upon the Association that for the present the avenue to affirmation and defense of the Negro's fundamental rights...

GLC06135.03

19th annual report NAACP for the year 1928

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword commemorates twenty years of NAACP activity. Reports on legal cases such as that of Robert Bell and Grady Swain, two boys sentenced to death on a flimsy...

GLC06135.04

20th annual report of the NAACP for the year 1929

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929. Foreword states "Uncompromising insistence upon full participation by the Negro in all phases of life is coming more and more to be the attitude of thinking and intelligent white and colored people."...

GLC06135.05

NAACP 1931 22nd annual report: a year's work for justice to the Negro

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1932. Foreword declares that the NAACP's aims "are in the path of manifest destiny of the darker races of the world. The world crisis and the social and political experiments that are its accompaniment all...

GLC06135.06

[Program from the 24th annual conference of the NAACP]

Lists Chicago NAACP officers and committee members. Cites meeting locations. Lists times for business sessions and mass meetings during the conference. Page 19 contains the lyrics for the song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," written by the diplomat...

GLC06135.07

NAACP 30th annual report for 1939

Lists NAACP officers for 1939. Includes chapters discussing lynching, education, economic opportunity, legal defense, and Department of Branches. The education chapter outlines several cases regarding the desegregation of university law schools and...

GLC06135.08.01

Catalogue of the library of the late David Porter Harmon

Includes over seven hundred titles and hand-written notes on individual prices for each book. A tally of the overall sale can be found on the rear fly leaf.

GLC06143.20

Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, delivered in Springfield, Saturday evening, July 17, 1858.

Discusses the disadvantages faced by the Republican Party in the upcoming election. Traces the development of his attitudes toward slavery and equality, expressing his conviction that the southern slave power was engaged in a conspiracy to...

GLC06214.02

Speech of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, delivered in Springfield, Saturday evening, July 17, 1858.

Discusses the disadvantages faced by the Republican Party in the upcoming election. Traces the development of his attitudes toward slavery and equality, expressing his conviction that the southern slave power was engaged in a conspiracy to...

GLC06214.03

Infantry Tactics for the Instruction, Exercise, And Manoevres of the Soldier...

An instruction book focusing on infantry tactics. Features School of the Battalion parts I-V. Provides detailed descriptions of movements and exercises. Features illustrations.

GLC06245.01

Remarks on some of the provisions of the laws of Massachusetts, affecting poverty, vice and crime

Contains Quincy's thoughts on the relation between poverty, crime and vice, and how society should deal with them. Printed by "Hilliard & Metcalf." Signed by Quincy on the front cover.

GLC06313.04.214

The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America: Third Session of the First Congress 1863

edited by James M. Matthews
stamp of Adjutant General Office, Confederate Archives July 14, 1888

GLC06745.001

The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America: Fourth Session of the First Congress 1863-64

edited by James M. Matthews
stamp of Adjutant General Office, Confederate Archives July 14, 1888

GLC06745.002

A Bill to be entitled an Act to regulate the business of conscription

GLC06745.141

A Bill to be entitled an Act to provide means to carry on the war

GLC06745.145

A Bill to be entitled an Act to levy additional taxes for the year 1865, for the support of the government

GLC06745.146

A Bill to be entitled an Act to levy and collect taxes for the common defence, and for the support of the government for the year 1865, and to repeal certain tax laws

GLC06745.147

To amend an Act to organize forces to serve during the war

GLC06745.151

That the bill to levy additional taxes for the year 1865, for the support of the government...

GLC06745.152

To be entitled an Act for the prevention of frauds on the revenues of the post offices department,and prohibiting the transportation of mailable matter over the post routes of the Confederate states by unauthorized associations or persons.

GLC06745.153

A bill to provide for the establishment of a bureau for Special and Secret Services

GLC06745.154

A bill to be entitled "An Act to provide means to carry on the war.''

GLC06745.155

Resolutions to be adopted by Bratton's Brigade, South Carolina Volunteers January 30th, 1865

GLC06745.159

A Bill to amend an Act to organize Forces to serve during the war.

GLC06745.164

Joint resolutions expressing the sense of Congress on the subject of the late peace commission

GLC06745.168

A bill making further regulations for the taxation of banks and bank notes for the confiscation of such notes held by alien enemies

GLC06745.170

A bill to provide means to pay the Army and Navy, and carry on the War.

GLC06745.171

A bill requiring suit to be brought against persons connected with the cotton bureau and the cotton office in Texas.

GLC06745.172

Amendment to the bill offered by Mr. J.M Smith, to amend the act to organize forces to serve during the war

GLC06745.173

Calendar of the House of Representatives, Monday April 7th, 1862

GLC06745.174

Calendar of the House of Representatives, Monday April 15th, 1862

GLC06745.175

Majority Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

GLC06745.180

Minority Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

GLC06745.181

Report of Commitee on Quartermaster and Commissary Departments, on case of Major Frank G. Ruffin

GLC06745.182

Minority Report of the Commitee of Ways and Means on the Tax Bill

GLC06745.183

Report of Special Commitee on the Pay and Clothing of the Army

GLC06745.186

Report of Special Commitee on the Payment of Claims

GLC06745.187

President's Message

GLC06745.188

Message of the President

GLC06745.189

Message of the President

GLC06745.190

President's Message

GLC06745.192

President's Message

GLC06745.194

President's Message

GLC06745.195

Message of the President

GLC06745.196

Message of the President

GLC06745.197

Message of the President transmitted with communication the Hon, Howell Cobb and Report of Major Witner

GLC06745.198

Message of the President transmitted with Report of the Commissioners

GLC06745.199

Decisions of Hon. James D. Halyburton, judge of the Confederate States district court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in the cases of John B. Lane and John H. Leftwich, in relation to their exemption, as mail contractors...

GLC06745.202

Communication from Attorney General [Transmitted with:] Message of the President...December 16th, 1863

GLC06745.203

Report of the Attorney General [Transmitted with:] Report of the superintendent of public printing

GLC06745.205

Report of Vessels Sunk and Burnt in the pamunky River, by Captain Chas. S. Carrington, A.Q.M. under the orders of General Joseph E. Johnston and others

GLC06745.206

Communication from the Secretary of the Navy...March 9th 1863. Transmitted with Message from the President, March 10th 1863.

GLC06745.207

Communication from the Secretary of the Navy...Jan.31st, 1864 [Transmitted with:] Message of the President...Feb. 3, 1865

GLC06745.208

Communication from the Secretary of the Navy..Feb. 15, 1865. [Transmitted with:] Message of the President...Feb. 15, 1865

GLC06745.209

House of Representatives. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, January 26, 1865.

GLC06745.210

Resolution of Congress with Reports of the Commissioner of Patents, Rufus R. Rhodes

GLC06745.211

Report of the Commssioner of Patents

GLC06745.212

Report of the Postmaster-General to the Presiden, April 29, 1861

GLC06745.213

Additional Estimates for the Support of the Government, transmitted by Jefferson Davis

GLC06745.215

Communication of the Secretary of Treasury...January 5, 1865 [Transmitted with:] Message of the Preside...Jan. 6, 1865.

GLC06745.221

Communication of the Secretary of Treasury...Feb. 1st, 1865.

GLC06745.222

House of Representatives. Communication of the Secretary of Treasury...Feb. 8th, 1865.

GLC06745.224

Communication of the Secretary of Treasury...Feb. 20th, 1865. [Transmitted with:] Communication of the Treasury Agent, P. W Gray.

GLC06745.226

Communication of the Secretary of Treasury...Feb. 20th, 1865. Transmitted with Circular.

GLC06745.227

Message from the President....February 5, 1863

year changed to 1864 with pencil

GLC06745.229

Communication from the Secretary of Treasury...Feb. 24, 1863. Transmitted with Message of the President...Feb. 25th 1863

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