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1859/12/16
Liberator. [Vol. 29, no. 50 (December 16, 1859)]
Whole no. 1511. It includes "Brown's letter to his wife.", the burial of John Brown; South Carolina's secession movement and the dissolution of the Union.
GLC07287
1851/11/06
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
To: James M.H. Beale.
Forney, a pro-slavery candidate, was "in favor of the maintenance and faithful execution of the fugitive slave laws...and of the suppression of all further agitation of the slavery question."
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1815/02/13
Treaty of Ghent
Announcing the Treaty of Ghent. This broadside contains the news from both New York and London that peace between the United States and Great Britain had been signed..
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1833/08/28
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
to Tilghman Ashurst Howard
Constitution, slavery, banking, methods of electing the President: "If I can...only succeed in banishing...corrupting influences...on the Constitution and [attempts] to make the government an engine of oppression to the people instead of the agent...
GLC07931
1843/05/08
Story, Joseph, 1779-1845
To: John McDonogh.
Discusses "the rights of master and the interests of the slave" in reference to the idea of African colonization.
GLC07932
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