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[Oath of allegiance]

An oath of allegiance pledging to defend the Constitution of the United States, the union of the states, and to abide by all laws passed to emancipate slaves. The document is signed by Isham Bailey and witnessed by Andrew B. Conly. With 5-cent...

GLC04522.08

Autograph letterbook of outgoing correspondence, most 1785-88, 1805-8 & 1811-12

Including letters to John Hancock, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Thomas Pickering, John Sullivan, Charles Thomson, James Bowdin, and other State governors regarding military affairs, state customs regulations and the need for interstate coordination...

GLC05896

Speech of Hon. Jacob Collamer of Vermont, on affairs in Kansas. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 3 and 4, 1856.

Printed at the Congressional Globe Office. Regarding Kansas, Senator Collamer states, "...I am not prepared at this moment to go at length into my reasons for believing as I do, that the best, the shortest, and the most quiet way is to admit that...

GLC05116.11

Daily sun.

The first three issues have four pages and the last one has two pages. Each issue has at least one column of "Telegraphic" war dispatches. The back page (except the last two-page issue) always contains the Georgia State Constitution. The 29 March...

GLC05959.03

to Mary

He says he is not an abolitionist, nor did he enlist under an abolitionist administration Then talks of whether the constitution should be reinstated or reconstruction should take place altogether. Written at camp on Lookout Mountain

GLC02415.105

to François-Louis Teissèdre de Fleury

Mentions that Samuel Shaw is probably in Canton, China and was in India the last year. Updates Fleury on the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia and the progress of ratifying the constitution in each state. "A convention or representation...

GLC02437.03740

to Henry Knox

Written in Manchester, a present-day neighborhood of Richmond. Comments on the state conventions held to discuss ratification of the United States Constitution (Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and Virginia). On Virginia, writes, "My situation...

GLC02437.03792

The loyalty & devotion of colored Americans in the Revolution and War of 1812.

Published by Robert F. Wallcut. Contains excerpts from speeches and quotations related to African American military service. Includes excerpts from a William Howard Day speech delivered at a convention for African Americans held in Cleveland, Ohio...

GLC06130

to Hugh H. Hanna

Discusses an endorsement of his proposed arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain. Taft would like the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church to withhold their public endorsement until a specific agreement has been...

GLC04932.01

to Thomas Holliday Hicks

Also signed by Jesse K. Hines, William T. Smyth, S. [R.?] Spencer, and Edward Wilkins. A committee transmits an inscribed silver pitcher, waiter, and goblets to Thomas Holliday Hicks at the end of his term as Maryland Governor. According to the...

GLC00451.07