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An address to the Republican friends of the National Administration...
1808 ca.
Continues: "In the county of Berkshire..." Contains pro-embargo, pro-Jefferson sentiments.
GLC06991.03
Whereas the town of Boston [Pro-embargo protest with blanks for town names]
Resolutions.
GLC06991.04
News-letter extra.
2 May 1862
Rare newspaper extra from Ship Island containing two letters by Admiral Farragut to the Mayor of New Orleans. On verso is an autograph letter signed (undated) from Union soldier S. S. Eastman to a friend. Severe ink bleed-through throughout.
GLC06589
Boston Gazette Extra, No. 2 [preparing for war]
1807/11/02
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Prints Jefferson's 27 October 1807 message to Congress re: preparing for war against the British (which never came). One of the results of Jefferson's message was the Embargo Act.
GLC06613
Fresh Intelligence
1775/09/05
Broadside printing of news: Captain Lee of Liverpool sends report of resolution to King George III to dismiss his advisors for giving poor counsel about the rebellious colonies (a false report). States troop strength of the colonies and of Spain and...
GLC06653
[Request for donations for the poor of Boston]
October 25, 1774
Boston (Mass.). Committee of Donations
Broadside listing the twenty six members of the committee (including Samuel Adams, Thomas Boylston, and John Adams) seeks donations in accord with their mission to relieve the "Poor, suffering by means of the Act of Parliament, commonly called the...
GLC06657.02
[Advertisement for the book Life at the South, or "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as it is!]
1 July 1852
Smith, W. L. G. (William L. G.), 1814-1878
Advertisement for Smith's book by Franklin Whipple. Initialled postscript indicates that Whipple is ready to fill orders. The book was written by W. L. G. Smith. Displays the book's table of contents. Notes the book contains 500 pages with ten...
GLC06464
Views of slavery
circa 1830-1840
Abolitionist broadside with six images depicting kidnapping, torture, auction, and labor of enslaved people. With Channing quotation, "Our laws know no higher crime than that of reducing a man to slavery. To steal or to buy an African on his own...
GLC06477
Instructions from Boston to its Representatives in State Legislature
circa May 10, 1785
Cooper, William, 1720-1809
This document is a printed sheet with a manuscript note at top containing information and instructions about a meeting of those who represent the Town of Boston. The note concerns State Legislators and mentions John Hancock, Samuel Allyn Otis, Caleb...
GLC05666.01
An address to drunkards and two other items [decimalized]
1736-1800
With plea from Capt. Hendricks, an Indian chief, to Col. Pickering, imploring him to keep his rum from "us poor Indians."
GLC05667
Indian letter.... [with:] An Address to Drunkards [temperance broadside]
1795 ca.
Temperance broadside printed by N. Coverly. The broadside (possibly playing-off recent news relating to Indians?) quotes an excerpt from a letter of Capt. Hendricks of the Stockbridge Nation to Col. Pickering, 1794 in which he says that the enemy of...
GLC05667.01
Justice the issue! Shall Sacco and Vanzetti be judicially murdered?
1927/07
Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1921-1927
This document is a printed broadside put out by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee which attacks the exclusive judgment of Judge Webster Thayer and says in part: "The issue is not only for Massachusetts. It is for America. The world will judge...
GLC05712.01
[Broadside against the Sacco-Vanzetti execution]
1927/08
This document is a printed broadside that quotes a columnist from the New York World and reads, "What more can these immigrants from Italy expect? it is not every prisoner who has a President of Harvard University throw on the switch for him." Sacco...
GLC05712.02
Republican Herald--Extra. Governor Morton's Letter.
27 August 1842
Simons, William, 1785-1845
An extra from a Rhode Island newspaper, published by Simons, that prints a letter from the former governor of Massachusetts, Marcus Morton. Morton declares that the circumstances in Rhode Island (relating to the Dorr Rebellion) are of national...
GLC05757.06
Soul stirring speech. Glowing Words Spoken to the Defenders of the Union.
1876 ca.
Ingersoll, Robert G., 1833-1899
This document is a reprinted copy of a newpaper page by the Indianapolis Journal. It is a transcript of a speech given by Colonel R.G. Ingersoll that is aimed at attacking Tilden's "Reform Democracy", which he associates closely with the rebellion.
GLC05778
Postscript to the Freeman's Journal, Sept. 21.
21 September 1781
Bailey, Francis, 1744-1817
This document is a copy of the Postscript to the Freeman's Journal from 21 September 1781. It contains letter from a free black man named Cato, "a poor negro," complaining of a newly proposed act that would have sent free blacks back into slavery...
GLC05818
[Connecticut policy toward enlisting men in Continental army]
11 May 1780
Wyllys, George, 1710-1796
Discusses the tax benefits of those towns having reached a quota of enlisted residents and the responsibilities of those persons who have not yet enlisted.
GLC06347
Brown hung
December 1859
Wentworth, William, fl. 1859
Calling town meeting at Wentworth Hall on 9 December to discuss the hanging of John Brown. "All (not excluding the ladies) are invited to attend." William Wentworth was the chairman of the event.
GLC06354
John Brown still lives!
30 December 1859
Calling a meeting to discuss John Brown, his raid, and slavery. "Hon. E. Graham, of Dewitt, Iowa, and A.J. Grover, Esq., of Lasalle county, Ill., will speak On Brown's Invasion! And the Present Aspect of the Slavery Question...B. C. Golliday, who...
GLC06355
Prophetic Daniel Webster!
circa 1850
Broadside states, "During the latter days of Mr. Webster, he was assailed by the Abolitionists on account of his 7th of March speech." Excerpts from the speech: "If the Fanatics and Abolitionists ever get the power in their hands they will override...
GLC06357
Speech from "Jackson Festival" in Tennessee [election of 1840 on silk]
1840/10/08
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
Promoting Van Buren. Printed on silk.
GLC06363
[General orders no. 101 regarding the trial of a free African American man]
9 April 1847
Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866
Isaac Kirk, referred to as "a free man of color" and "a resident and citizen of the United States," is charged with, convicted of, and sentenced to hang for the rape of Maria Antonias Gallegas, a Mexican woman. Duplicate of GLC00911.02.
GLC06366.02
General Orders: No. 5
15 July 1846
Bowman, George W., fl. 1846
Orders from Adjutant General George W. Bowman to the Volunteers of Pennsylvania requesting the enrollment of six regiments of infantry. Reply from Francis R. Shunk, governor of Pennsylvania, complies with orders and includes a list of companies...
GLC06366.04
$200 Reward!
9 May 1860
Duley, Enoch M., 1773-1864
Offered for "my boy Manuel," a runaway slave described as 35 years old and enterprising. Includes a physical description: "He has a shrewd expression of the eye, and has a scar on one of his thighs occasioned from a burn, is well dressed and has in...
GLC06377.01
Constitution! The people of the Kansas Territory are requested to assemble...
circa 23 October 1855
E.C.K. Garvey & Co., fl. 1855
Broadside announcing a public discussion on the proposed Kansas Constitution, on wove paper, with a vignette of the Federal Eagle, "Constitution! The People of the Kansas territory Are requested to assemble at the following times and places, to...
GLC06409.01
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