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October 25, 1842
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
to Alice Egerton
Responding to her request for a lock of hair, and praising her piety. Accompanied by an engraved portrait of Jackson with lock of his white hair.
GLC00548.01
October 22, 1856
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869
to Jeremiah S. Black
Compliments Black on the address on religious liberty that he gave before the Phrenakosmian Society of Pennsylvania College. Argues with some points of the essay concerning the judgment of history on William Penn, Oliver Cromwell, and St. Francis...
GLC00605
September 28, 1832
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
to O.A. Bowe
A personal letter about a trip to New England. Discusses his trip by sea to Providence and stage-coach to Boston. Compares the Boston architecture to that in New York, describes going to church there, and comments on "the Boston aristocracy."...
GLC00880
July 24, 1839
Dresser, Amos, 1812-1904
to Hiram Wilson
Writes to Reverend Wilson who is expecting two enslaved people seeking emancipation in Canada through the underground railroad. Writes, "I rejoice in the privilege of handing over to you two more Daughters of affliction who can tell you their own...
GLC00867
3 February 1848
Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879
[Members of Congress agree on Washington D.C.'s need for an Episcopal Church]
Written and signed by Congressmen John A. Dix. Cosigned by George E. Badger, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, H. Johnson, (possibly either Henry or Herschel Johnson), Robert Winthrop, John Sergeant, William D. Dayton, John Macpherson Berrien, and Joseph...
GLC02288
23 October 1815
Adams, John, 1735-1826
to William Stephens Smith
Thanks him for his letter, which included a letter from William Cobbett to Niles. He loves clergymen "because they are often sociable and sensible men," but "the priesthood seems to have something militant and belligerent in its nature." Remarks...
GLC02295
14 September 1827
Willett, Marinus, 1740-1830
to Christian Miller
Reports on the impending death of his brother and continues with a discourse on the subject. Discusses his belief in everlasting life for those who believe in the divine redeemer. Written in Cedar Grove neighborhood.
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29 November 1854
Ripley, George, 1802-1880
to George J. Gardner
Thanks him for his recent letter. Requests that in February he send the latest statistics on the manufacture of salt in Syracuse, "to be incorporated into our article on salt." Ripley was a minister, literary critic, journalist, and a leading...
GLC02453.30
26 June 1847
Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857
to Joshua Leavitt
Birney, an abolitionist, writes to Leavitt, a reformer and minister in Boston. Has been asked to write columns for the Herald, a newspaper, and is allowed by the editor to freely express his opinions. Notes that Dr. Bailey (possibly Gamaliel Bailey...
GLC02448.02
circa 15 June 1845
May, Samuel J., 1797-1871
to Marius Racine Robinson
May, a prominent abolitionist and reformer, writes to Robinson, Secretary of the Western Anti-Slavery Society. Robinson had invited May to speak, and May promises to come if he can find a suitable replacement to serve as pastor in his absence...
GLC02448.12
1832
Converse, John Kendrick, 1801-1880
A Discourse, on the moral, legal and domestic condition of our colored population, preached before the Vermont Colonization Society, at Montpelier, October 17, 1832.
Converse preaches that Blacks, "though they might be freemen in name, can never be raised to the rank and privileges of freemen in this country." He blames white American racism for this situation and proposes colonization as the solution. First...
GLC00267.050
1820
Spring, Gardiner, 1785-1873
Memoirs of the Reverend Samuel J. Mills, late missionary to the South Western section of the United States...
(title continues)... and agent of the American Colonization Society, deputed to explore the coast of Africa. By Spring as pastor of the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York. Published by the New-York Evangelical Missionary Society.
GLC00267.057
1845
History of the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; comprehending all the official proceedings of the General Conference.
Title continues: "the southern annual conferences, and the General Convention; with such other matters as are necessary to a right understanding of the case."
GLC00267.077
1857
Armstrong, George Dodd, 1813-1899
The Christian doctrine of slavery.
Published in New York by Charles Scribner. Justification of slavery based on the principles and history of Christianity.
GLC00267.078
1847
Bushnell, Horace, 1802-1876
Barbarism the first danger. A discourse for home missions.
Claims that slavery has diminished southern society. Printed for the American Home Missionary Society, by William Osborn in New York. Bushnell was the pastor of the North Church in Hartford, Connecticut.
GLC00267.081
1837
Keep, John, fl. 1837
An address, delivered December 22, 1837, in the village of Lockport, N.Y. commemorative of the martyrdom of Rev. E. P. Lovejoy, who was killed by the mob...
Title continues, "... in the city of Alton, Ill., on the night of November 7, 1837." Elijah P. Lovejoy was a Presbyterian minister, editor of a religious newspaper who was killed by a pro-slavery mob. Keep was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church...
GLC00267.090
1855
Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860
The trial of Theodore Parker for the "misdemeanor" of a speech in Faneuil Hall against kidnapping, before the circuit court of the United States...
(title continues)... at Boston, April 3, 1855. With the defence. Published for the author. Other works by Parker are listed on the last two pages.
GLC00267.096
1850
Stuart, Moses, 1780-1852
Conscience and the constitution with remarks on the recent speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster on the subject of slavery.
Published by Crocker & Brewster. Stuart discusses the problems of ending slavery. In closing, writes "The last thing I have to say, is, to ask the question, whether it would not be a feasible thing, and the best thing we can do, to colonize the...
GLC00267.138
Clark, Rufus Wheelwright, 1813-1886
A Review of the Rev. Moses Stuart's pamphlet on slavery, entitled conscience and the Constitution.
Published by C. C. P. Moody. Clark, pastor of the North Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, rebuts Stuart's argument regarding slavery (Stuart argued for colonization; refer to GLC00267.138). In closing, writes "...notwithstanding the strong...
GLC00267.139
Spencer, Ichabod S. (Ichabod Smith), 1798-1854
Fugitive slave law. The religious duty of obedience to law: a sermon, preached in the Second Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, Nov. 24, 1850.
Published by M. W. Dodd. Argues against resistance to government and law, and upholds citizens' religious duty to obey the law. Writes, "I am not justifying slavery... I am not justifying the fugitive-slave Law. It may be wrong: it may be unwise...
GLC00267.141
Thompson, Joseph Parrish, 1819-1879
The fugitive slave law; tried by the Old and New Testaments.
Argues against obeying laws from the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1850. Published by William Harned, New York, printed by B. L. Hamlen, New Haven, Connecticut. Reprinted from the New Englander for November 1850. Thompson was the pastor of the Broadway...
GLC00267.142
1854
Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888
The rendition of Anthony Burns. Its causes and consequences. A discourse on Christian politics, delivered in Williams Hall, Boston, on Whitsunday, June 4, 1854.
Concerns the extradition of Anthony Burns, an enslaved person who was captured in Boston and returned to Virginia, while seeking emancipation. The case demonstrates the wide-held belief that the "Slave Power" of the South could control the North and...
GLC00267.151
1852
Beals, Greene & Co., (Boston, Mass.)
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...
GLC00267.191
eman, Frederick, 1799-1883
A plea for Africa, being familiar conversations on the subject of slavery and colonization, [originally published under the title "Yaradee."]
Published by J. Whetham. Discusses African history, slavery, and colonization. Contains reviews following the appendix. Also includes an advertisement for Psalmodia, another book by Freeman. On inner front cover, contains a Henry F. Porter...
GLC00267.392
1849
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
First edition printing in original brown pebble cloth. Printed by James Munroe & Co., Boston; New York : George P. Putnam; Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blackiston; London : John Chapman, 1849. Based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord...
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