Pamphlets
This sub collection of the Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana consists of approximately 900 pamphlets.
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The Constitution Upheld and Maintained. :Speech of Hon. Jas. Harlan, of the United States Senate.
James Harlan
One of two editions of this text, priority not determined. In this edition (corresponding to Stern Collection no. 1838), with 8 numbered pages, the title is printed on one line; the text includes subheadings in capital letters, and ends in the middle of page 8, followed by a list of 15 Union Congressional Committee publications, dated ""Sep. 2, 1864""; and the printer's name is given as ""L. Towers"". In the other edition (corresponding to Monaghan no. 299), printed in much smaller type, with page 8 unnumbered, the word ""maintained"" in the title is printed on a separate line; the text is without subheadings and ends with 9 lines on p. 7, the rest blank; the list of Union Congressional Committee publications, dated ""Sept. 2, 1864"", occupies the whole of page 8 and includes instructions for placing orders; and the printer's name is given as ""Lemuel Towers.""
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General orders no. 179: the following Executive General Order, is re-published for the information and guidance of all officers and soldiers in this command ...
Headquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans
Caption title; By command of Major General Hurlbut : Joseph Hibbert, Jr. Captain and Assistant Adjutant General.
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Report of Hon. Mr. Howard, in the United States Senate, on Interference in Elections by Military and Naval Officers.
Jacob Merritt Howard
Signed: J.M. Howard, for the Committee [i.e. on Military Affairs and the Militia.]. ""In the Senate of the United States, February 12, 1864.""
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Professor Laboulaye, the great friend of America, on the Presidential election : the election of the President of the United States
Edouard Laboulaye
This pamphlet is the translation of a paper received at the Department of State from the American Consul at Paris in which debates the political climate of the United States preceding and during the Civil War and the role Europe will take in it.
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Lincoln or McClellan? : appeal to the Germans in America
Francis Lieber
This pamphlet appeals to the German population in America to not be deceived by the name of the democratic party in the upcoming election between General McClellan and President Abraham Lincoln. The author goes into critical detail about the recent democratic convention and all the perceived problematic viewpoints of the democratic party and encourages German Americans to seek, instead, the party that upholds freedom and condemns slavery.
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Message of the President of the United States : Communicating, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate of the 27th of April, Information in Regard to the Condition of Affairs in the Territory of Nevada.
Abraham Lincoln
Caption title. ""May 2, 1864.--Read, referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed""; the message itself is dated Apr. 29, 1864. Cited in Collected works, ed. Basler, v. 7, p. 322-323, note. Running title: Condition of affairs in Nevada. the information is contained in a letter from Governor Nye to Mr. Seward, dated March 25, 1864.
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The Turning Point: or, Shall America Be Ruled by a Monarch or by the People?.
J. W. Marsh
Cover title.
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Hear Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton.
George Hunt Pendleton
Caption title. Articles, letters, and speeches by Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton.
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The Party of Freedom and its Candidates.: Duty of the Colored Voter.
Republican Congressional Committee
Cover includes images of Abraham Lincoln labled as "The Emancipator," and Ulyssess S. Grant, Labled "His Successor." Dialog between a newly made citizen and a Radical Republican.
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Address of the Union State Central Committee upon the constitutional amendment extending the elective franchise to citizen soldiers in the field: Union State Central Committee, July 27, 1864
Republican Party (Conn.). State Central Committee.
Caption title; Signed by James G. Batterson and sixteen members of the committee.
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![A Campaign Tract for 1864 : Extract from a Speech by Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederate States, Delivered in the Secession Convention of Georgia, January, 1861 [and Quotations from Speeches by Secessionists]. by Alexander Hamilton Stephens](https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-pamphlets/1693/thumbnail.jpg "A Campaign Tract for 1864 : Extract from a Speech by Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederate States, Delivered in the Secession Convention of Georgia, January, 1861 [and Quotations from Speeches by Secessionists]. by Alexander Hamilton Stephens")
A Campaign Tract for 1864 : Extract from a Speech by Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederate States, Delivered in the Secession Convention of Georgia, January, 1861 [and Quotations from Speeches by Secessionists].
Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Caption title. Evidently a campaign document for the Republican or Union Party in 1864.
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Confiscated Property: Speech of Hon. L.D.M. Sweat, of Maine, Delivered in the House of Representatives, First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress, January 20, 1864.
Lorenzo De Medici Sweat
Response to the Joint Resolution repealing a Joint Resolution explanatory of "An act to supress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and condiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes."
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A few plain words with the rank and file of the Union armies
William Swinton
This pamphlet is a campaign publication that praises the work of union soldiers and warns them of the ""copperheads"" (group of men who oppose the war) who would deride them.
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McClellan's Military Career Reviewed and Exposed: the Military Policy of the Administration Set Forth and Vindicated
William Swinton
Published by the Union Congressional Committee. A condensation and revision of the series of twelve articles in review of McClellan's report, by William Swinton, published in the New York times ... February, March, and April, 1864. Published the same year under title: The ""Times"" review of McClellan: his military career reviewed and exposed.
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The character and public services of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
William M. Thayer
On cover: The ""campaign document.""; Issued also under title: Life and character of Abraham Lincoln;
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Shall We Have An Armistice.
Union Congressional Committee.
A historical parallel"", a comparison of ""Horatio Seymour against Lincoln in 1864"" with ""Benedict Arnold against Washington in 178... p. [8].
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Address by the Union League of Philadelphia, to the Citizens of Pennsylvania, in Favor of the Re-election of Abraham Lincoln.
Union League of Philadelphia.
A speech addressing the importance of re-electing Abraham Lincoln, 1964.
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General Orders. No. 149.
United States. Adjutant-General's Office
War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, April 5, 1864.
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General Orders. No. 128 /War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, March 30, 1864.
United States. Adjutant-General's Office.
By the President of the United States of America, a proclamation. Signed on p. 2: Abraham Lincoln ... E.D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General. Defines circumstances under which insurgent enemies are entitled to benefits of the President's Proclamation of amnesty and reconstruction, issued December 8, 1863.
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General Orders. No. 302 /War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, December 21, 1864.
United States. Adjutant-General's Office.
By the President of the United States of America. A proclamation. Signed: Abraham Lincoln ... E.D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General.
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General Orders. No. 35 /War Department, Adjutant General's Office, Washington, February 1, 1864.
United States. Adjutant-General's Office.
Signed: Abraham Lincoln ... E.D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General.
