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1843:
Liberty Party Platform (8/30)
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1844-1860:
Presidential
Voting by States: 1844-1860 |
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1844:
Liberty Party Platform |
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1846:
Black Laws of Ohio - The Liberator files |
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|
1847:
"Spot Resolutions" - Congressman Abraham Lincoln |
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|
1848:
"An
Appeal to the Free Soil Party" - The United States Democratic
Review / Volume 23, Issue 125, Nov 1848 |
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|
1848:
"Causes
of the Success of the Whigs" - The American Whig Review
/ Volume 8, Issue 6, Dec 1848 |
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|
1848:
"The
Election" - The United States Democratic Review / Volume 23,
Issue 124, Oct 1848 |
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|
1848:
Free
Soil Party Platform |
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|
1848:
"The Honor of this Country" - speech in the House by Alexander H.
Stephens (2/2) |
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|
1848:
Letter on the Free Soil Party - Gerrit Smith |
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|
1848:
"The
Liberty Party" - The United States Democratic Review / Volume
23, Issue 122, Aug 1848 |
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|
1848:
"Millard Fillmore" - The American Whig Review /
Volume 8, Issue 4, Oct 1848 |
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|
1849:
"A
History of Parties" - The American Whig Review / Volume 10,
Issue 22, Oct 1849 |
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|
1849:
Inaugural Address
of Zachary Taylor |
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|
1849?:
Judge Jay's letter - "Free soil Whigs and Liberty party men, read
this!" - broadside |
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|
1849:
"Origin
of the Two Parties: Contrast of their Doctrines" - The American
Whig
Review / Volume 9, Issue 13, Jan 1849 |
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|
1849:
"Popular
Sovereignty and States Rights" - The United States Democratic
Review / Volume 25, Issue 133, July 1849 |
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|
1849:
"Remarks
on the Resolutions and Manifesto of the Southern Caucus" - The
American Whig Review / Volume 9, Issue 15, Mar 1849 |
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|
1849:
"The
Southern Address" - John C. Calhoun |
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|
1850:
Calhoun's Speech on the Compromise of 1850 |
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|
1850:
Census
Data for the Year 1850 |
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|
1850:
"Centralization" -
The United States Democratic Review / Volume
26, Issue 142, April 1850 |
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1850:
Clay's
Resolutions of 1850 (1/29) - Compromise of 1850
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|
1850:
"[The Death of]
John C. Calhoun" - The United States Democratic Review /
Volume 26, Issue 143, May 1850 |
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|
1850:
Fugitive
Slave Act
(broadside) |
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|
1850:
"Fugitive
slave bill ... Approved" - Millard Fillmore - broadside (9/18) |
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|
1850:
The
New York Herald
supports the Compromise of 1850 |
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|
1850:
"Read and Ponder
the Fugitive Slave Law!" - broadside |
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1850:
Resolutions of the Nashville Convention |
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1850:
Seventh of March Speech - Daniel Webster |
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1850:
"The
Stability of the Union" - De Bow's Review |
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|
1850:
"Stability
of the Union" - The United States Democratic Review / Volume
26, Issue 139, January 1850 |
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|
1850:
Stephen
A. Douglas's speech on California Admission |
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1850:
The
Underground Railroad - Levi Coffin |
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1850:
The Wide, Wide World - Susan Bogert Warner |
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|
1850:
William H. Trescot on "The Position and Course of the
South" |
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|
1850s:
"Dixie"
- song lyrics by Daniel Decator Emmett (a Northerner) |
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1850s:
"The
Missouri Partisan Ranger" - George Caleb Bingham's painting of Order
11 |
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1850s:
Platform of the American Party of Massachusetts - broadside |
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1850 & 1860:
1850 and 1860 census records |
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1851:
Anti-Fugitive Slave Law Meeting Resolutions |
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1851:
"Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro
Race" - Dr. Samuel Cartwright
in
De
Bow's Review
Southern and Western States (Volume XI, New Orleans) |
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1851:
Frances Gage Remembers Sojourner Truth Appearing at the Akron
Convention |
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|
1851:
"The
Fugitive Slave Law" - The American Whig Review / Volume
13, Issue 77, May 1851 |
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|
1851:
"The Philosophy of the American Union; or, the Principles of its
Cohesiveness" - The United States Democratic Review / Volume
28, Issue 151, January |
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|
1851:
"Washington
Crossing the Delaware" - painting by Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze |
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|
1851:
"Political
Motives for 1851-2" - The American Whig Review / Volume 13,
Issue 37, Jan 1851 |
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|
1852:
"The Convention - the Party and the Compromise" -
The American Whig
Review / Volume 15, Issue 90, June |
|
|
1852:
"The Cuban Debate" -
The United States Democratic Review /
Volume 31, Issue 173, Nov-Dec 1852 |
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|
1852:
"The Democratic Convention" -
The American Whig Review / Volume
16, Issue 91, July 1852 |
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|
1852:
"The Democratic Nomination" -
The American Whig Review / Volume
16, Issue 92, Aug 1852 |
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|
1852:
"The
Dignity and Importance of History" - Daniel Webster (2/23) |
|
|
1852:
"Franklin Pierce" -
The American Whig Review / Volume 16, Issue
95, Nov 1852 |
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|
1852:
"Frank Pierce and Major-General Scott" -
The United States
Democratic Review / Volume 31, Issue 172, Oct 1852 |
|
|
1852:
Free Soil Party Platform (8/11) |
|
|
1852:
"General Scott. Triumph of the Resurrectionists" -
The United
States Democratic Review / Volume 30, Issue 168, June 1852 |
|
|
1852:
Henry
Clay's Will |
|
|
1852:
Know-Nothing
Oath (mid-page) |
|
|
1852:
Lincoln's Eulogy of Henry Clay (7/6) |
|
|
1852:
"Socialism" - Semi-Weekly Tribune/New York Tribune
(11/16) |
|
|
1852:
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (full text) |
|
|
1852:
"The
Whig Convention: The Candidate and the Campaign" - The American
Whig Review / Volume 16, Issue 92, Aug. |
|
|
1853:
Black Potential and the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin |
|
|
1853:
Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi - Joseph G. Baldwin |
|
|
1853:
Inaugural
Address of Franklin Pierce |
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|
1854:
Appeal of the
Independent Democrats |
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|
1854: "The Crime Against Kansas" - Charles Sumner speech |
|
|
1854:
DeBow's Review on the destiny of the slave states
(Sept.) |
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|
1854:
Examiner's questions for admittance to the American
(or Know Nothing) Party (July) |
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|
1854:
"Fragments on Slavery" - Abraham Lincoln |
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|
1854:
"The
Kansas Emigrants" - poem by John Greenlief Whittier |
|
|
1854:
Kansas-Nebraska
Act |
|
|
1854:
Kansas-Nebraska
Act - editorials from over 20 newspapers |
|
|
1854:
"Let the People Speak Out" - From
The New York Tribune
(2/13) |
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|
1854:
Letter on the revival of the slavery issue - Gerrit Smith |
|
|
1854:
"The Missouri Prohibition" -
The United States Democratic Review
/ Volume 34, Issue 2, August 1854 |
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|
1854:
No
Compromise with the Evil of Slavery - William Lloyd Garrison |
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1854:
Ostend
Manifesto |
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1854:
People v Hall |
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|
1854:
Report of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society with the Act
of Incorporation |
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|
1854:
Slavery
in Massachusetts - Henry David Thoreau |
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|
1854:
Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise - A. Lincoln |
|
|
1854:
Treaty of Kanagawa |
|
|
1854:
Treaty
of Washington, DC with the Kickapoo Indians (5/18) |
|
|
1854:
"Whig Principles. What's Left of Them" -
The United States
Democratic Review / Volume 34, Issue 6, December |
|
|
1854:
William Lloyd Garrison Admits of No Compromise |
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|
1855:
Extracts from the diary and correspondence of the late Amos Lawrence;
with a brief account of some incidents in his life |
|
|
1855:
"The Federal Union - Shall it be Preserved?" -
The United States
Democratic Review / Volume 36, Issue 4, October 1855 |
|
|
1855:
Inaugural Address of Major Levi Boone of Chicago |
|
|
1855:
Letter of Abraham Lincoln on Nativism |
|
|
1855:
Letter of John Brown on Bleeding Kansas |
|
|
1855:
Letters
of Thomas C. Wells - Kansas pioneer about "Border Ruffians"
(1855-1866) |
|
|
1855:
Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act |
|
|
1855:
"National platform of the Know somethings" - Adopted at Cleveland, OH
- broadside |
|
|
1855:
"The Presidential Negative - Vetos of President Pierce" -
The
United States Democratic Review / Volume 36, Issue 5, November
1855 |
|
|
1855:
Scenes in the Kansas Election - From
The Liberator (7/27) |
|
|
1855-63:
Julia Louisa Lovejoy, Selected Letters from Kansas |
|
|
1856:
1856
Campaign - political cartoons |
|
|
1856:
The
Canning of Charles Sumner - editorials from over 20 newspapers |
|
|
1856:
"Crimes
Against Kansas" speech - Charles Sumner |
|
|
1856:
Democratic Party Platform
Republican Party Platform |
|
|
1856:
"Democratic Platform, 1856" caricature/political cartoon |
|
|
1856:
"Free
State Battery" - photo |
|
|
1856:
"Justifying Club Law" - Pittsburgh, PA Gazette (6/11)
|
|
|
1856:
Letter
from Edward Bridgman - about "Bleeding KS" |
|
|
1856:
Letter from California vigilante committee to John
Stephens (9/5) |
|
|
1856:
Letter from Salmon P. Chase on slave power |
|
|
1856:
Letter on the revival of the slavery issue - Gideon Welles |
|
|
1856:
Know-Nothing Party Platform |
|
|
1856:
"On
the Sumner Assault" by Preston S. Brooks |
|
|
1856:
Republican Campaign Songster - songs for the 1856 campaign |
|
|
1856:
Republican Party Platform of 1856 |
|
|
1856:
"The Reign of Terror" - From
The New York Tribune
(6/12) |
|
|
1856:
"The
Ruffians in the Senate"
- Evening Journal (5/23) |
|
|
1856:
Six
Months in Kansas
- Hannah Anderson Ropes |
|
|
1856:
"Southern Chivalry" - lithograph by John L. Magee |
|
|
1856:
A Southern Response to the Caning of Sumner |
|
|
1856:
"Stump Speaking" - painting by George Caleb Bingham |
|
|
1856:
"Sumner
and Brooks" - Journal American (5/24/1856) |
|
|
1856:
"The Union - The Dangers Which Beset It. Number One" -
The United
States Democratic Review / Volume 37, Issue 1, January 1856 |
|
|
1856:
"The Union - The Democratic Party - The Administration" -
The
United States Democratic Review / Volume 37, Issue 6, June 1856 |
|
|
1856:
"White
slavery. The new "Democratic doctrine." ... Slavery not to be confined
to the negro race, but to be made the universal condition of the
laboring classes of society" - broadside |
|
|
1857:
The American Mind and the Traits of Webster, Clay and Calhoun
by Edwin P. Whipple - excerpt from essay first published in Harper's
Magazine as "American Mind" |
|
|
1857:
"The
American Platform of Principles" (Know-Nothings) |
|
|
1857:
"Anti-slavery
fair! The Abington anti-slavery fair will commence on Monday evening,
Nov. 9th, at Union Hall, North Abington " - broadside
image |
|
|
1857:
Dred Scott Decision - Roger Taney |
|
|
1857:
Dred
Scott Decision - various Supreme Court opinions on the case |
|
|
1857:
Dred
Scott Case - editorials from over 20 newspapers |
|
|
1857:
Frederick Douglass to Gerrit Smith, April 20 |
|
|
1857:
The Gathering Storm - Hinton Rowan Helper |
|
|
1857:
Inaugural Address
of James Buchanan |
|
|
1857:
Lecompton
Constitution |
|
|
1857:
Northern Outrage over
Scott v. Sandford - From The New
York Tribune
(3/7) |
|
|
1857: Scott
v. Sandford |
|
|
1857:
Speech on the Dred Scott Decision - Abraham
Lincoln |
|
|
1857-1858:
Excerpt from Charles Mackay, from
Life
and Liberty in America: or, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and
Canada in 1857-1858 |
|
|
1858:
Abraham
Lincoln - Debate at Gatesburg, IL |
|
|
1858:
"Astounding Disclosures!" - broadside on the Democratic
Party by Robert Goodenow |
|
|
1858:
"Cotton is King" Excerpts from "On the Admission
of Kansas, Under the Lecompton Constitution" Speech Before
the U.S. Senate, March 4, 1858 by James Henry Hammond |
|
|
1858:
DeBow's Review on the destiny of cotton culture (May) |
|
|
1858:
"The Declaration of independence, signed July 4th, 1776: A song,
designed for the public schools and academies ... Pittsburgh" -
broadside |
|
|
1858:
"Democracy
and Republicanism - Choate and Cushing" - The United States
Democratic Review / Volume 42, Issue 2, August 1858 |
|
|
1858:
"House
Divided Speech" - Abraham Lincoln |
|
|
1858: "The
Irrepressible Conflict" - William Seward speech |
|
|
1858:
Le Marais Du Cygne - a poem on Kansas
by John Greenlief Whittier published in the Atlantic Monthly
(Sept.) |
|
|
1858:
Letter by Andrew Johnson Evaluating James Buchanan |
|
|
1858:
Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
|
|
1858:
"A short sketch of our troubles in the anti-slavery cause ...
Newport, Kentucky. Office of the Daily and weekly news" - broadside |
|
|
1858:
"To the abolitionists and prohibitionists of the County of Madison ...
Your friend Gerrit Smith" - broadside |
|
|
1858-60:
Various documents on the trial and execution of John Brown
(additional documents) |
|
|
1858-65:
Crusader and feminist: letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm: 1858-1865
(entire text) |
|
|
1859: African colonization--its principles and aims. An address delivered by
John H. B. Latrobe, president of the American Colonization Society, at
anniversary meeting of the American Colonization Society held in the
Smithsonian (1/18) |
|
|
1859:
Anti-slavery hymns for the New England anti-slavery convention
(5/25-26) - broadside |
|
|
1859:
"The Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority" - Stephen
Douglas |
|
|
1859:
"Execution of Capt. John Brown. At a meeting of the executive
committee of the American anti-slavery society, held in Boston,
November 1st, the following resolution was adopted " - broadside |
|
|
1859:
Harpers
Ferry headline - John Brown's raid |
|
|
1859:
John Brown Final Address to the Court (11/2) |
|
|
1859:
John Brown's testimony given to Senator Mason (10/16) |
|
|
1859:
John
Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry, VA - editorials from over 20 newspapers |
|
|
1859:
Letter of William Smith - about Bleeding Kansas |
|
|
1859:
Letter of William Windom to Edward R. Parry et al. describing
the "Southern fires eaters" in Congress |
|
|
1859:
"Logical
Results of Republicanism" - The United States Democratic Review
/ Volume 43, Issue 2, October 1859 |
|
|
1859?: A Plea for
Captain John Brown - Henry David Thoreau |
|
|
1859?:
"Political
and industrial reform" - broadside |
|
|
1859:
Responses
to John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry
(Ohio Enquirer October 19; Chicago, Illinois Press and
Tribune October 20 |
|
|
1859:
Various
Documents on the Trial & Execution of John Brown |
|
|
late 1850s?:
"John
Brown's Body Lies A-Moldin' in the Grave" - song lyrics |
|
|
1860:
Aboriginal America - Jacob Abbot |
|
|
1860:
Alabama's
Letter to the State of North Carolina |
|
|
1860:
Alexander Stevens' Reply to President-Elect
Lincoln |
|
|
1860:
The Bible Argument (on slavery) - Thornton Stringfellow |
|
|
1860:
Census
Data for the Year 1860 |
|
|
1860:
"Chicago
Wide-Awake Republican Club to Abraham Lincoln
- membership certificate |
|
|
1860:
Constitutional
Union Party Platform - Bell, Everett |
|
|
1860:
The
Crittendon Compromise |
|
|
1860:
"The Day of Battle Has Arrived-Election Day 1860"
- The Richmond Enquirer (Nov. 1860) |
|
|
1860:
Democratic
Party Platform
Republican Party Platform |
|
|
1860:
Democratic
Platform - John Breckinridge |
|
|
1860:
Distribution of Farms by Acreage - 1860 |
|
|
1860: Distribution
of Slaveholders by Size of Holdings - 1860 |
|
|
1860: "[Dividing the] National [Map]" - political cartoon |
|
|
1860:
The Doom of Slavery in the Union- Its Safety Out of It,
by John Townsend |
|
|
1860:
"The
Election in November" by James Russell Lowell - The
Atlantic
Monthly (Oct. 1860) |
|
|
1860:
Essay on Liberty - John Stuart Mill |
|
|
1860:
President
James Buchanan's Fourth Annual Message to Congress |
|
|
1860:
Jefferson Davis - portrait photo by Matthew Brady |
|
|
1860:
"Let Us ,
therefore, reason together!" - speech by Alec Stephens (11/14) |
|
|
1860:
Letter
from Congressman John Reagan of Texas |
|
|
1860:
Letter from Frederick Douglass on his views on Liberty |
|
|
1860:
Letters to the Citizens of the Greenville, SC district - For the
Southern Enterprise |
|
|
1860:
"Lincoln
and Liberty, Too" - Lincoln's campaign song (sound file)
with lyrics |
|
|
1860:
Lincoln's Cooper Union Address |
|
|
1860:
Lincoln's New Haven speech, 3/6 (complete) |
|
|
1860:
"Little Stephen A. Trying to Climb A Very High Chair"
- political cartoon in Vanity Fair (7/14) |
|
|
1860:
New Orleans Daily Picayune editorial of 11/4 |
|
|
1860:
Open Letter of
Gov. Joe Brown to the People of Georgia |
|
|
1860:
"Our Political Snake Charmer" - political cartoon in
Vanity Fair (2/11) |
|
|
1860:
Platform of the Alabama Democracy - Montgomery, AL (Jan.) |
|
|
1860:
Population Distribution of the Border Slaveholding
States - 1860 |
|
|
1860:
Population Distribution of the the Eleven Future Confederate States -
1860 |
|
|
1860:
President-Elect Lincoln's Letter to Alexander
Stevens |
|
|
1860:
"Prospects
of Slavery Expansion" - Charleston Mercury (2/28) |
|
|
1860:
"The Slave Deck of the Bark 'Wildfire."
- illustration in the 6/2 issue of Harper's Weekly |
|
|
1860:
Slave Statistics Information |
|
|
1860:
South
Carolina Secession Declaration Debate (12/22/1860) |
|
|
1860:
South
Carolina Secession Declaration Debate (12/25/1860) |
|
|
1860:
"Southern testimony. Speech of Alex. H. Stephens, now vice president
of the "Southern Confederacy,& before the Convention which
assembled in Georgia in Dec. 1860 to act upon the question of
secession " - broadside |
|
|
1860:
Speech of B. F. Perry of South Carolina in the National Democratic
Convention |
|
|
1860:
"The
Terrors of Submission" - Charleston Mercury (10/11) |
|
|
1860:
"Though
Lincoln is elected, there is no danger" - Staunton Spectator
(11/13) |
|
|
1860:
"What is the True Issue?" - Daily Picayune, New Orleans
(11/4) |
|
|
1860:
"Young America Rising at the Ballot-Box and Strangling
the Serpents Disunion and Secession" - political
cartoon Harper's Weekly (9/1) |
|
|
1865?:
Pioneer Days in Kansas (1856-1865) - Richard Corldey |
|
|
1884:
"The Last Moments of John Brown" - painting by Thomas
Hovenden |
|
|
1902:
"Horace Greeley and the Working Class Origins of the Republican
Party" - John R. Commons
(Univ. of WI)
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