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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
24 July 1863
Don't unchain the tiger!
Signed "A Democratic Workingman." German-American broadside supporting the Union cause, pleading with the public to keep peace in the north. Discourages lashing out at public officers and falling into the depths of crime and violence. Printed...
GLC08467
Entfesselt der Tiger nicht! = Don't Unchain the Tiger! [in German]
Signed "Ein Demokratischer Urbeiter," "A Democratic Worker." German-American broadside supporting the Union cause, pleading with the public to keep peace in the north. Discourages lashing out at public officers and falling into the depths of crime...
GLC08468
1865
Greeley & McElrath, 1841-1866
The border ruffian code in Kansas
A pro-Republican, free-soil pamphlet published by Horace Greeley's Tribune. "The character of the Code of pretended Laws enacted by the bogus Territorial Legislature of Kansas- a Legislature notoriously forced upon the people of that Territory, at...
GLC08471
14 February 1865
Confederate States of America. Congress
Amendment to the negro soldier bill
Invests the Confederate General-in-Chief with the power to call slaves in to military service. States that clothing and rations will be provided to slaves impressed or voluntarily offered for service by their owner. States "By Mr. Swan" (likely...
GLC08472
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