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William Jay and the Constitutional movement for the abolition of slavery.

Written by Bayard Tuckerman. With preface written by John Jay, grandson of John and son of William Jay. Printed by Dodd, Mead & Company. Jay inscribes to the Honorable William Allen Butler, an author, lawyer, and poet.

GLC07440

Thomas Dorr papers, relating to Dorr's rebellion [decimalized]

GLC05757

The Union and the state-rights parties. Speech of Hon. E. W. Chastain, of Georgia, on the position of the Union Party of Georgia.

Printed at the Congressional Globe Office. Delivered in the House of Representatives 5 March 1852.

GLC00267.187

The just supremacy of Congress over the territories: intended as an answer to the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, on popular sovereignty.

Published by A. Williams and Company.

GLC00267.177

to John Adams

Talbot thanks President Adams for receiving the commission of Captain of the Navy and "also another to Cotton Thayer as Second Lt. of Marines." Talbot has difficulty accepting this commission because he fears he will be a junior officer to someone...

GLC02437.07279

to John McLean

Secretary of State Adams writes to McLean, Commissioner of the General Land Office, about the government responsibility for internal improvements. In response to McLean's request, he encloses a copy of an 1807 resolution he put before the senate on...

GLC01727

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

Resolutions of the legislature of Georgia, relative to the controversy between Massachusetts and the states of South Carolina and Louisiana.

House document no. 87, 20th Congress, 1st session. Georgia legislature supports the states' rights position taken by South Carolina and Louisiana. Resolves that Georgia opposes Massachusetts' interference in those states' affairs and will cooperate...

GLC00267.065

to Nathaniel Freeman

Adams criticizes the unexpected marriage of a mutual friend. He mentions the female population in Newbury-Port and other personal matters. He discusses the intended judiciary system and comments that it will take many alterations and additions before...

GLC00881

The Supreme Legislative power of the United States of America...

Hamilton's constitutional plan for two legislative bodies, as Assembly and Senate, and a permanently elected executive. In the hand of John Lansing, Jr.

GLC00819.10