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Conduct of the war

Senate report from the "joint committee on the conduct of the present war" regarding Confederate indiscretions at Manassas. Committee was directed to "Collect evidence with regard to the barbarous treatment by the rebels, at Manassas, of the remains...

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Dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park

Created by the Joint committee on dedication of Chickamauga and Chattanooga national military park and compiled by H.V. Boynton. Printed by the Government Printing Office by order of the Senate in the 54th Congress. The military park was created...

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Statement in reference to the claim of the state of Missouri for expenses incurred in the support of her militia during the war

Report of the expenses of the Missouri militia during the Civil War submitted by the state to the House of Representatives. Contains a combination of correspondence on expenditures and charts detailing costs. Dated from the date the report was...

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[Claims of the state of Nevada]

Report submitted by William Stewart, Senator from Nevada and a member of the Committee on Military Affairs, to the Senate as a whole. Requests repayment of money spent during the Civil War by the territorial government of Nevada. Says most of the...

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[Speech by Senator Fitch regarding the admission of Kansas into the Union]

Delivered at Indianapolis 6 January 1859. Uncut.

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The just supremacy of Congress over the territories: intended as an answer to the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, on popular sovereignty.

Published by A. Williams and Company.

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To the people of the United States.

An attack on Andrew Jackson during the 1832 Presidential election. For the first four pages ("To the people of the United States), no author is cited. Pages 5 and 6 contain an address by Samuel Tucker "To the surviving officers and soldiers of the...

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A sketch of the life and public services of William Henry Harrison.

Pro-Harrison campaign document. Written as "an acceptable service to those, who are not familiar with the life of this distinguished man, to place before them the following brief sketch of his biography and public services." States that the sketch...

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Outlines of the life and public services, civl and military, of William Henry Harrison

Campaign biography for the 1840 election, which Harrison won. Dedicated to the people of the third district of Massachusetts. Described by the author as "[a] brief retrospect of his career, civil and military, while it exhibits the character and...

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Gen. Harrison's speech at the Dayton convention, September 10, 1840.

Campaign speech for the 1840 election. Includes comments by the publisher about the reaction of the crowds, what was going on and the atmosphere. Harrison denies being a Federalist and assures the crowd of his interest in the people's welfare: "I...

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Life of John Tyler, president of the United States, up to the close of the second session of the twenty-seventh congress:...

Title continues: ...including some of his most important speeches while a member of the House of Representatives and the of the Senate of the United States, and his principal messages and other public papers as chief magistrate of the union. A...

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Address to the people of the state of New-York by the General Executive Committee of the American Republican Party of the City of New York.

Uncut. Published by the General Executive Committee. Contains a list of Committee members. Address delivered by Copeland, President of the Republican Party. Requires that "the Naturalization Laws shall be so altered as to make it necessary for...

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Inconsistency and hypocrisy of Martin Van Buren. On the question of slavery.

An anonymous author criticizes Van Buren and the Free Soil Party, which nominated him as candidate for the 1848 Presidential election: "No event in the history of political parties in this country since the establishment of the government, has...

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Dinner to the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson at Tammany Hall, as a tribute of respect, by the Democracy, of the Counties of New York, Westchester, Kings, Queens and Richmond...

(title continues)...and his reception by the municipal authorities of the city, on the 17th of June, 1850. Printed at the office of the New York Daily Globe. O'Conor, a prominent New York attorney, served as President of the function. Includes a...

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Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, Delivered in Richmond, Virginia, July 9, 1852.

Supports Franklin Pierce as the Democratic presidential candidate. Gives a summary of Pierce's achievements and qualifications for the position of president: "Hence, as democrats, we invite the most rigid and strict scrutiny into the public and...

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The electoral vote of Massachusetts can be given to Pierce and King. Address of the Democratic State Committee of Massachusetts on the Presidential Election.

Discusses Democratic party business. Calls to "elect Democratic electors of President and Vice-President of the United States in the Old Bay State." Limits topics exclusively to "the presidential election, and present[s] some reasons why [people...

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The Whig charge of intolerance against the New Hampshire Democracy and Gen. Franklin Pierce.

Written in response to rumors and allegations from the Whig party that Franklin Pierce is religiously intolerant. States that "[i]n American political contests the seraching questions out to be ever, as to a candidate, 'Is he honest? is he capable...

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Politics in Ohio. Senator Chase's letter to Hon. A. P. Edgerton.

Also titled "Baltimore Democracy and Independent Democracy." In closing, Chase indicates his wish "...that the Ohio Democracy might maintain firmly and fearlessly their own noble creed; and that, hereafter, the action of the Ohio Democracy might...

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The proceedings of two meetings, held in Boston, on the 7th & 14th July, to protest against the nomination of Gen. Scott, for the Presidency, and to recommend Hon. Daniel Webster for that office.

Printed by Prentiss & Sawyer. Henry Williams (possibly the former U.S. Representative from Massachusetts) served as chairman of the proceedings. May have previously been bound in a larger volume.

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Facts and considerations for the democracy of the Empire State.

Pamphlet promoting James Langdon Curtis as the Democratic candidate for Governor of New York. Contains a print of Curtis between pages eight and nine. Contains extracts from various newspapers discussing Curtis's potential candidacy. Published in...

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Know nothingism, or the American Party. By Franklin.

Published by E. W. Hinks and Company. Describes the Know-Nothing, or American Party.

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Official proceedings of the National Democratic Convention, held in Cincinnati, June 2-6 1856. Published by order of the convention.

Describes in great detail each day's proceedings. Includes a list of delagates from every state, amendments, the minutes for all of the meetings and others. Published by the Enquirer Company Steam Printing Establishment, by the order of the...

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Words of counsel to men of business. By a man of business.

"The object of this little tract- simply and intelligibly written- is to show reflecting men, and especially citizens of Pennsylvania and the North, why they should vote for Mr. Buchanan as President of the United States." Contains a stamp of New...

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The fearful issue to be decided in November next! Shall the Constitution and the Union stand or fall?

Pamphlet attacking John C. Fremont's presidential candidacy, and in support of James Buchanan. Accuses Fremont and many of his supporters of fostering disunion through abolition and sectionalism. Full title "The fearful issue to be decided in...

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Read and reflect!

Pro-Democrat pamphlet attacking John Frémont. Lists fifteen charges against the Republican party led by Frémont. "Let every lover of his country remember that during the present Congress...the Republican (Frémont) party have voted to violate the...

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