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Compendium of the enumeration of the inhabitants and statistics of the United States, as obtained at the department of state, from the returns of the sixth census, by counties and principal towns.

Prepared at the Department of State. Printed by Thomas Allen. With "Dublin" handwritten on the front cover.

GLC00267.082

Slavery in the District of Columbia.

24th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives document no. 691. States that Congress cannot interfere with slavery in the district of Columbia or any other states in the Confederacy. Instead, Congress formed a select committee to deal with...

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Speech of Mr. Slade, of Vermont, on the right to petition; the power of Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia;...

Title continues, "...the implied faith of the north and the south to each other in forming the constitution; and the principles, purposes, and prospects of abolition." Slade, a Congressman from Vermont, protests the Gag rule, which prohibited the...

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Speech of Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, of Pennsylvania, on the subject of the reception of abolition petitions.

Speech given in the House of Representatives 8 & 9 June 1841. Printed at the Globe Office, Washington, D.C.

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Speech of Mr. Severance, of Maine on the right of petition.

Delivered in the House of Representatives, 16 February 1844. Discusses the ban on receiving any petitions regarding the abolition of slavery in the House of Representatives. Printed by J. and G.S. Gideon, Washington, D.C. Partially uncut.

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Speech of Mr. Sergeant, on the Missouri question.

First edition. Speech delivered in the House of Representatives arguing that Missouri should be added to the Union as a free state. Sergeant was a Congressman from Pennsylvania.

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Annexation of Texas. Message from the President of the United States, In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 13th instant, respecting an Annexation of Texas to the United States.

Complies with the House of Representatives request for the President to report his opinion on whether or not Texas should be annexed to the United States, whether Texas has proposed anything and what the United States' response was, and, if so, to...

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[House Document 36 on Daniel Webster's Retirement and "Mr. Webster and His Revilers"]

The first part of this document includes Webster's statement of resignation from Senate, written 10 February 1841. The second part contains an article first published 24 April [1840?] in the Washington, D.C. newspaper The National Intelligencer...

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Proceedings of the Senate and documents relative to Texas, from which the injunction of secrecy has been removed.

Uncut congressional pamphlet that includes a copy of the proposed treaty admitting Texas to the Union. Printed by the 28th Congress, 1st Sess. Senate document no. 341.

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Texas. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the rejected treaty for the annexation of the Republic of Texas to the United States, together with the accompanying documents.

Contains the text of the treaty and diplomatic correspondence. From the U.S. 28th Cong., 1st sess., House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. no. 271. Date refers to when the document was "Read, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs." Printed...

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