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Henry Wellington Wack

Henry Wellington Wack: "The story of the free Congo State..." signed by Clemens with autograph note above frontpiece portrait: "A bucket of whitewash for the miscreant King Leopold."

GLC08137

[Reports on Creek Indians of Georgia]

Inside cover signed by William McLean. Bound copy of various texts. Included are: House Report No. 128 dated 5 February 1828 entitled "Citizens of Georgia - Claims on Creek Indians;" House Report No. 87 dated 18 February 1829 entitled "Remove...

GLC08279.02

The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Vermont

Features a section on Joseph Wait, 1776.

GLC08284.047

Memorial to Chara Conant Wait

Hardcover. Horatio's wife. Includes memorials by Annie M. Hitchcock, Mary H. Loomis and Louise D. Sherman.

GLC08284.121

Constitution and Bylaws of Warren Temple of Honor

GLC02157.76

Bank Book for Charles Armstrong

GLC02157.74

Constitution and Bylaws of Friendship Division of the Sons of Temperance

Receipts in back.

GLC02157.77

School Records, No. 21 for G. Armstrong

GLC02157.73

Constitution and Bylaws of Warren Temple of Honor

Undated.

GLC02157.75

The barbarism of slavery. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state.

Given in the Senate, 4 June 1860. Condemns slavery as barbaric and criticizes various pro-slavery arguments, including that slavery was not upheld by the United States Constitution. Published by Thaddeus Hyatt, Washington, D.C. Printed as the clergy...

GLC02095.21

Mr. Sumner's Lecture on White Slavery in the Barbary States.

Sumner's lecture given before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, 17 February 1847. Published by William D. Ticknor and Company. Printed in Cambridge by Metcalf and Company, printers to the University. Inscribed on the original orange cover...

GLC02095.19

The Crime Against Kansas. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts. In the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856.

Sumner delivered this speech after the May 1856 debates on slavery in Kansas. Condemns Southern advocacy of the expansion of slavery. Published by Greeley and McElrath, New York. Advertised on cover page as being "for sale at the office of the New...

GLC02095.20

Protection of Freedmen: Actual Condition of the Rebel States. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts ...

Title continues, "... on the bill to maintain the freedom of the inhabitants in the states declared in insurrection and rebellion by the proclamation of the President of July 1, 1862; delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 20, 1865."...

GLC02095.23

[Wesleyan University Final Exam Schedule]

GLC02181.80

[Wesleyan University Class Day Schedule]

GLC02181.81

[Wesleyan University Flyer for Commencement]

GLC02181.83

[Vermont Methodist Seminary and Female College Commencment Flyer]

GLC02181.84

[Prize Exhibition of Newbury Seminary]

GLC02181.73

[Wesleyan University Annual Prize Declaimation]

GLC02181.74

[Newbury Seminary Commencement Program]

GLC02181.75

[Wesleyan University Class of 1869 Sophomore Exhibition]

GLC02181.79

[Army and Navy Union of Wesleyan Circular with Member List]

GLC02181.77

[Vermont Conference Seminary Annual Bulletin]

GLC02181.78

Report of the arguments of counsel, in the case of Prudence Crandall, Plff. in error, Vs. State of Connecticut, before the Supreme Court of Errors, at their session at Brooklyn, July Term, 1834.

Prudence Crandall, having allowed black children into her school, was tried by the State of Connecticut for violating a law against the education of colored children who were not inhabitants of the State, which required consent of the town of...

GLC09124

Addresses delivered before the Virginia State Convention by Hon. Fulton Anderson...Hon. Henry L. Benning, ... and Hon. John S. Preston...February 1861.

Wyatt M. Elliott. Representatives of Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina work to persaude Virginia to join a slave-holding Confederacy.

GLC09125

Historical and Legal Examination of that part of the decision of the Supreme Court ....

" of the United States in the Dred Scott case, which declares the unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise Act, and the self extension of the Constitution to territories, carrying slavery along with it..." New York, D. Appleton and Company...

GLC09126

The Liberty Almanac for 1847.

Cover woodcut illustration sows idyllic "Emancipation" scene near the U.S. Capital building. With 5 more illustrations throughout. New York: William Harned.

GLC09127

A Discourse, Delivered April 12, 1797, at the request of and before the New-York Society ...

"... for promoting the manumission of slaves, and protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated. By...one of the Ministers of the United Presbyterian Churches in the City of New-York, and members of said society." New York: T. and J...

GLC09128

Instructions for Field Artillery, by a Board of Artillery Officers

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. Inscribed "S.P. Heintzelman Major U.S. Army." 88 plates.

GLC09176

The Anti-Slavery Record, Vol. 1

Six issues of The Anti-Slavery Record published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, each bearing a dramatic woodcut illustrating the horrors visited upon slaves. 12 pages each.
Includes: No. 6 - June, No. 7 - July, No. 9 - September (2nd edition)...

GLC09232

[Abraham Lincoln speech delivered July 17, 1858]

Speech delivered on July 17, 1858 in Springfield, IL, as a prelude to the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Contains Lincoln's stands on key national issues including the Dred Scott decision and the Lecompton Constitution. "My declarations upon...Negro...

GLC09241

The Law of Retribution...

The Law of Retribution; Or, A Serious Warning to Great Britain and her Colonies, founded on unquestionable examples of God's Temporal Vengeance against Tyrants, Slave-holders, and Oppressors. First edition, printed in London.

GLC09291

Message from the President of the United States ... Due under the Award of the Emperor of Russia, for Slaves and other private property carried away by the British Forces, in violation of the Treaty of Ghent

"Message from the President of the United States Transmitting the Information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 10th ultimo, Relating to the proceedings of the Joint Commission of Indemnities, Due under the Award of the...

GLC09296

Liberator Extra issue

Scarce "Extra" issue of William Lloyd Garrison's weekly Liberator mainly devoted to the "Appeal of Clerical Abolitionists on Anti-Slavery Measures .... Declaration of Abolitionists in The Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass."

GLC09298

Review of Lysander Spooner on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery…

Spooner argues that certain "clauses in the United States Constitution universally supposed to refer to and recognize Slavery [have made] 'the preservation, propagation, and perpetuation of Slavery the vital and animating spirit of the National...

GLC09299

The Kidnapped and The Ransomed

Story told to Pickard by Peter Still, a black slave who after 40 years was freed with the help of two Jewish brothers. [The only 19th-century slave narrative depicting Jews helping a kidnapped slave.]

GLC09301

The Chisolm Massacre: A Picture of "Home Rule" in Mississippi

The Chisolm Massacre: A Picture of "Home Rule" in Mississippi. 2nd edition, published by the Chisolm Monument Association. In 1877, Judge Chisolm was accused of assassinating a Democratic political opponent. He, his son and daughter and two friends...

GLC09304

Report of the Board of Officers in the Case of Fitz-John Porter...

"Report of the Board of Officers in the Case of Fitz-John Porter, Late Major-General of Volunteers" published by the Army and Navy Gazette. Annuls Porter's 1863 court-martial and restores his position of major general. Includes transcriptions of...

GLC09312

[Campaign biography]

Scarce campaign biography, featuring bold image of Lincoln on front cover and vice presidential candidate Andrew Johnson on back cover.

GLC09322

[Amnesty Proclamation]

Full printing of the oath with several circular letters appended. [The proclamation states the terms on which the citizens of the Southern states could be restored to their civil rights; Johnson's terms were much more stringent than Lincoln's...

GLC09326.03

[In Memorium of Mary Jane Aldridge]

In memorium of Mary Jane Aldridge, printed. Includes a biographical sketch by her sister focusing on her humanitarian work and work with womens' groups.

GLC02167.62

The Folly of invading Virginia

Collateral to Oswald manuscript, printing some of Oswald's other manuscripts concerning British policy in America. GLC 7121 is not in the limited edition printed by the University of Virginia Press.

GLC07121coll

The Gospel Magazine

includes sermons for every day of the week

GLC07299.006

Laws of the Cherokee Nation...

GLC07383

Jinny and Jim

Autographed to Richard Lufkin.

GLC08880.002

Lincoln in Chicago

GLC08880.003

Lincoln in Cartoon and Caricature (2 copies)

GLC08880.004

Gerrit Smith and the Vigilant Association of the City of New York

correspondence between Chas D. Miller, Samuel L. Barlowe and Royal Phelps

GLC08880.005

Race or Humanity?

sermon given in King's Chapel, Boston

GLC08880.006

General Grant at Mount MacGregor

sermon given in King's Chapel, Boston

GLC08880.007