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04 May 1798
Adams, John, 1735-1826
Message of the President of the United States, to both houses
Dated May 4, 1798. Stab-stitched as issued. Regarding negotiations with France to end the Quasi-War, and report from Ambassadors
GLC00265.03
October 8, 1819
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
to James Monroe
Recommends Crittenden, acting Governor of the Arkansas Territory, to President Monroe for an unidentified post. Refers to an enclosed letter from Crittenden (not included).
GLC00266
1846
Palfrey, John G., 1796-1881
Papers on the slave power, first published in the "Boston Whig."
Signed on title page by John Day Putnam. Printed by Merrill, Cobb & Co., Boston, Massachusetts. Papers numbered 1-24 argue against slavery by discussing its place in the constitution, the North's role in it, the consequences of overthrowing it, and...
GLC00267.002
1804
A defense of the legislature of Massachusetts, or the rights of New England vindicated
Pamphlet defending the Massachusetts legislature's attempt to repeal the three fifths clause of the Constitution. Claims that the repeal is necessary for Massachusetts to retain any influence in national government. Argues that this clause gives...
GLC00267.007
1834
Grosvenor, Cyrus P., 1792-1879
Address before the Anti-Slavery Society of Salem and the vicinity in the south meeting-house, in Salem, February 24, 1834.
Highlights criticism of enslavers and their source of labor. "We at the North work for our own support, with no dishonor and with essential benefit to ourselves...; and the gentlemen of the South need not think it too much to go and do likewise. If...
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August 1857
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Compensated emancipation
[Title continued] a speech by Gerrit Smith, in the National Compensation Convention, held in Cleveland, Ohio, August 25, 26 and 27, 1857. First edition. Smith, a former United States Representative from New York, writes: "The sin of extending the...
GLC00267.012
1902
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
The anti-slavery papers of James Russell Lowell.
First edition. No. 141 of a Limited edition of 525 copies. Uncut and unopened. Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company.
GLC00267.013
1863
Cairnes, John Elliott, 1823-1875
The Slave-power: Its character, career and probable designs: Being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the America contest.
Second edition. Published by Macmillan and Company. Contains pencil notes on title page. Includes dedication to John Stuart Mill: "...the opportunity of connecting my name in public with that of one from whose works I have profited more largely...
GLC00267.014
14 January 1829
Georgia. General Assembly
Report adopted by the Legislature of Georgia on the resolutions of South Carolina and Ohio ...
Title continues, " ... in relation to the powers of the general government and state rights, and to the subject of slavery." 20th Congress, 2nd session. Report concludes that the writers of the Constitution did not intend all power to be...
GLC00267.016
06 April 1836
United States. Congress (24th, 1st session : 1835-1836). House
Amend the Constitution of the United States
[Title continued] memorial of citizens of North Carolina, upon the subject of amending the Constitution of the United States.Twenty seven petitioners request: "In case that any State in the Union, either by the Legislature thereof, or by a convention...
GLC00267.020
1837
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850
[Two senate motions] [Decimalized .01-.02]
Two motions, one submitted by John C. Calhoun and one by John Norvell. Calhoun's resolution is well-known for establishing the orthodox state rights position. In his resolution, Norvell, the Democratic-Republican Senator from Michigan, agrees with...
GLC00267.021
5 February 1839
Thompson, Waddy, 1798-1868
Speech of Waddy Thompson of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives of the United States, being in Committee of the whole on the state of the union.
Favors states' rights and criticizes former President Andrew Jackson as "a man who has done more to break down all the landmarks of the Constitution, and to consolidate all power in this Federal Government, than every other man who has preceded him."...
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20 May 1846
Michigan, Legislature
Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan relative to leasing of the mineral lands.
House document no. 204. 29th Congress, 1st session. Discusses Michigan state rights. Denies the right of the federal government to lease federal mineral lands if the state where the lands are located is opposed to it. Includes report of Flavius J...
GLC00267.025
2 December 1817
Monroe, James, 1758-1831
Message from the President of the United States, to both houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the fifteenth Congress.
Monroe reports that Amelia Island, near the Georgia boundary, had been seized and was "being made a channel for the illicit introduction of slaves from Africa into the United States, an asylum for fugitive slaves from the neighboring states, and a...
GLC00267.030
10 January 1818
United States. Congress
Report of the Committee to whom was referred so much of the President's Message as relates to the introduction of slaves from Amelia Island.
The report reflects the early distaste for the slave trade in the U.S. House Document 46, 15th Congress, 1st session. Accompanied with a bill supplementary to the act, to prohibit the importation of enslaved people into any port or place within the...
GLC00267.031
26 March 1818
Message from the President of the United States ... relating to the occupation of Amelia Island.
Full title reads, "Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 20th instant, information, not heretofore communicated, relating to the occupation of Amelia Island...
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7 December 1824
Message from the President of the United States, to both houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress.
Describes the joint efforts of the U.S. and Britain to suppress the slave trade, which the Monroe administration proposed to define as piracy. Also discusses the rights of U.S. vessels during recent wars. Document no. 2. Printed by Gales & Seaton....
GLC00267.033
27 December 1825
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Slave Trade. Message from the President of the United States, communicating correspondence with Great Britain in relation to the Convention for suppressing the slave trade.
Relating to the convention for the suppression of the slave trade. House Executive Document 16, 19th Congress, 1st session, Document no. 16. Secretary of State Clay advises the British that the Senate will not agree to British right of search along...
GLC00267.034
26 November 1833
Hayne, Robert Y., 1791-1839
State of South Carolina. Governor's Hayne's message.
A message from the Governor congratulating his state of South Carolina for firmly opposing the original tariff and the Force Act passed by the federal government. Hayne insists that nullification is an "unquestionable right of Sovereignty, under a...
GLC00267.019
1851
Jenkins, John S., 1818-1852
The Life of John Caldwell Calhoun
Biography of Calhoun, vice president under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Published by James M. Alden.
GLC00267.022
1944, 1949, 1951
Wiltse, Charles M., 1907-?
John C. Calhoun Nationalist [with] ... Nullifier [with] ... Sectionalist
GLC00267.023
1897
Powell, Edward Payson, 1833-1915
Nullification and secession in the United States
A history of the six attempts during the first century of the Republic. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, printed by the Knickerbocker Press.
GLC00267.026
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
The Works of Daniel Webster
GLC00267.027
1791
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.
An abstract of the evidence delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons in the years 1790 and 1791...
(title continues)... on the part of the petitioners for the abolition of the slave trade. Pamphlet bound as a book. With a note "Printed at the expense of the society in Newcastle for promoting the abolition of the slave-trade. Includes one...
GLC00267.028
1816
Urquhart, Thomas, fl. 1816
A letter to Wm Wilberforce, Esq. M.P. on the subject of Impressment; calling on him and the philanthropists of this country ...
Title continues "... to prove those feelings of sensibility they expressed in the cause of humanity on negro slavery, by acting with the same ardor and zeal in the cause of British seamen." First edition. Published for the benefit of the Maritime...
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