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1841/03/04 ca.
S. F. J. (Orator)
[Biographical oration on President William Henry Harrison, for election?]
Post-election day eulogy, delivered on the day of WHH's inauguration (?), per p.1. Signed with initials at end "S.F.J."
GLC08445.08
14 December 1858
Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873
[Appointment of Representative John Sherman to Congress]
Partially printed document signed by Chase as Governor of Ohio. Certifies that Sherman was elected as a Representative in the 36th Congress of the United States from the 13th congressional district. Countersigned by A. P. Russell as Secretary of...
GLC08449
1828
Binns, John, 1772-1860
Monumental Inscriptions.
8 images of fictitious funeral monuments, each to a man executed by Jackson. The first six are for Tennessee militiamen executed in February 1815, after the Battle of New Orleans, for being deserters. The last two are for John Woods, a mutineer...
GLC08460
1 July 1842
McKerny, John, fl. 1842
[Permission for slaves to work for their own profit]
Legal document permitting his two slaves, Samuel and Andrew, to work for themselves or any other person on Saturdays.
GLC08465
25 January 1837
Taylor, E. W., fl. 1837
to Jeremiah Wilbur
Taylor, a Northerner who had moved to South Carolina and became a slave owner, explains his views on slavery and his willingness to fight for it. "If these matters are going to be carried so far as to the separation of the Union and blood must be...
GLC08476
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