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1846
Ross, John, 1790-1866
Memorial of John Ross and others [Cherokee Indians]
29th Congress., 1st session. Senate document 331. Bound in modern adhesive-style.
GLC08402
18 March 1850
Gwin, William M., 1805-1885
Memorial of the senators and representatives elect from the state of California...
Title continues "asking permission of said State into the Union, together with the credentials of said representatives, and a certified copy of the constitution of said State." House of Representatives Misc. No. 44. Plea signed by William Gwin...
GLC08439
1860
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
The barbarism of slavery. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state.
Disbound. Printed by Buell & Blanchard. Senator Sumner declares, "When last I entered into this debate, it became my duty to expose the Crime against Kansas, and to insist upon the immediate admission of that Territory as a State of this Union...
GLC08445.01
1856-1857
State legislatures' resolutions regarding Kansas and slavery [Decimalized .01-.08]
34th Congress House of Representatives Miscellaneous Documents. Contains resolutions passed by the state legislatures of Kentucky, Ohio, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, Iowa, and Michigan. Apparently disbound from a larger volume....
GLC08452
4 June 1860
The barbarism of slavery. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state. In the United State Senate, June 4, 1860.
Printed by Buell & Blanchard. Sumner calls the Missouri Compromise "the fatal partition between Freedom and Slavery." Uncut. Accompanied by address leaf cut from this pamphlet's original transmission wrapper (GLC08454.02). Edges are brittle and...
GLC08454.01
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