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circa 1860
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
[Quotation of Charles Sumner on liberty]
Complete quotation reads: "For myself in a case of doubt I feel that I cannot go wrong when I lean to the side of Liberty."
GLC02095.25
7 January 1914
Drucker & Co., fl. 1914
Committee on Political Reform. The Union League Club. N.Y. Jan. 7, 1914.
One black-and-white photograph entitled, "Committee on Political Reform," dated January 7, 1914." Image is of ten men in tuxedos around a dinner table at the Union League Club. Fourth from the left sits Samuel W. Fairchild, then President of the...
GLC04471.14
23 March 1880
Temperance Republican Headquarters, fl. 1880
Recent work of grog shops
Gives detailed accounts of crimes and murders committed at liquor saloons due to excessive drinking. Stories are reprinted from other newspapers or publications. Printed by the Temperance Republicans. Subtitle reads: "It is high time for the law...
GLC01733.15
11 February 1866
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
to Henry Wilson
Replies to a letter Wilson wrote when Garrison discontinued publication of the Liberator, his anti-slavery newspaper. Writes that he so values Wilson's letter, he will ask his children to preserve it with other valuable autographs and memorials....
GLC08888
30 June 1858
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
to Daniel Ricketson
Writes to his good friend, a historian and poet, that he is about to take a trip to the White Mountains. Apologizes for not writing sooner. Muses on the nature of his friendships and refers to his "preaching" in the mode of Walden. " ... is it of...
GLC01751.01
4 January 1868
Higginson, Thomas W., 1823-1911
to Wendell P. Garrison
Writes to Garrison, the son of William Lloyd Garrison, about the "Slave Songs" Garrison sent him: "I certainly ought to have acknowledged the receipt of the Slave Songs...I think that you and your wife (who was the pioneer) have great reason to be...
GLC08937
1793
The Constitution of the New-Jersey Society, for the Promoting of Abolition of Slavery...
GLC08896
1795
Minutes of the Proceedings of the Second Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States, Assembled in Philadelphia ...
GLC08897
1864
Blair, Montgomery, 1813-1883
Speech of the Hon. Montgomery Blair, on the causes of the rebellion and in the support of the president's plan of pacification
Published by Sherwood & Co. Address delivered before the Maryland State Legislature at Annapolis 22 January 1864. States that the duty of the country is to suppress the rebellion and eliminate slavery. Encourages the unification of all parties to...
GLC01265.27
May 1905
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
Draft of Ladies Home Journal article "Woman's Mission and Woman's Clubs."
Draft of Ladies Home Journal article "Woman's Mission and Woman's Clubs." Opposing women's suffrage." Let it be here distinctly understood that no sensible man has fears of injury to the country on account of such participation. It is its dangerous...
GLC08000
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