Pamphlets
This sub collection of the Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana consists of approximately 900 pamphlets.
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Speech of Hon. S.A. Douglas, of Illinois, on Kansas Territorial Affairs. / Delivered in the Senate United States, March 20, 1856.
Stephen Arnold Douglas
From the first page, "The Senate, as in committee of the whole, having taken up for consideration the bill to authorize the people of the Territory of Kansas to form a constitution and State government, preparatory to their admission into the Union when they have the requisite population--"
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The Democratic demonstration at Poughkeepsie: Speech of Hon. R.M.T. Hunter, of Virginia.
Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter
Caption title.
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The Illinois Central Rail-road Company Offers for Sale Over 2,000,000 acres, Selected Farming and Wood Lands ... : Situated on Each Side of their Rail-road, Extending All the Way from the Extreme North to the South of the State of Illinois.
Illinois Central Railroad Company.
The booklet, which offers testimonials and statistics about farming in Illinois, is designed to sell land along the Illinois Central tracks. The land is offered ""in tracts of forty acres and upwards, to suit purchasers, on long credits, & at low rates of interest""--Cover. Another edition of 60 p., published simultaneously, has title: The Illinois central rail-road company offer for sale over 2,000,000 acres selected prairie, farm and wood lands ...
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The real issue--union or disunion: Letter of Hon. S.S. Marshall, on the parties and politics of the day to the freemen of the Ninth congressional district of Illinois.
Samuel Scott Marshall
This pamphlet contains a letter of Hon. S.S. Marshall discussing the parties and politics of the day to the freemen of the Ninth congressional district of Illinois.
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Speech of William H. Seward, for the immediate admission of Kansas into the Union : Senate of the United States, April 9, 1856.
William Henry Seward
No abstract
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Speech of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, on the Bill to Admit Kansas as a State under the Topeka Constitution : Delivered in the House of Representatives, June 28, 1856.
Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Speech of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, on the Bill to Admit Kansas as a State under the Topeka Constitution, delivered in the House of Representatives, June 28, 1856.
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Speech of Hon. Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, on the Kansas-Pacification Bill :delivered in the Senate, July 2, 1856.
Robert Augustus Toombs
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Minority report of the Kansas Investigating Committee of the House of Representatives by Hon. Mordecai Oliver, of Missouri. Washington 1856.
United States. Congress. House. Committee to Investigate the Troubles in Kansas.
Caption title. Probably reprint of House report 200, 34th Cong., 1st sess. 1855-1856.
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Report to Accompany Bill S. 356 / Mr. Douglas [for the] Committee on Territories.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Territories.
Caption title. At head of title: 34th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Rep. Com. no. 198. ""June 30, 1856. Ordered to be printed.""
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Message from the President of the United States: Returning to the Senate the bill Entitled An act Making a Grant of Public Lands to the Several States for the Benefit of Indigent Insane Persons, with a Statement of the Objections which have Required Him to Withhold from it his Approval.
Franklin Pierce
May 4, 1854.""
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Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirty-third Congress, Dec. 4, 1854.
Franklin Pierce
Imprints varies: pt. 3, Washington, A.O.P. Nicolson. Pt. 3 has additional title: Illustrations belonging to the reports accompanying the message.
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A review of ""A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster: Preached at the Melodeon on Sunday, October 31, 1852 by Theodore Parker ...""
Junius Americanus
A review of ""A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster: Preached at the Melodeon on Sunday, October 31, 1852 by Theodore Parker ...""
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A Discourse on the Bottle--Its Evils--and the Remedy ; or, A Vindication of the Liquor Seller and the Liquor Drinker: from Certain Aspersions Cast upon them by Many
James Smith
Delivered in the Presbyterian Church, Springfield, Ill., Jan. 23, 1853. A rare temperance lecture by an intimate friend of the Lincoln family. Prominent among those listed as attending and endorsing publication of the lecture is ""A Lincoln."" in 1850 Smith delivered the sermon at the funeral services for the Lincolns' 3 year old son Eddy, and Mary Todd Lincoln became a member of his church in 1852. Later President Lincoln appointed Smith as consul at Dundee, Scotland and in the years following Lincoln's assassination, Smith became a prominent participant in the debate with William Herndon over Lincoln's religious convictions.
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Memoir of General Scott: from records cotemporaneous with the events.
This pamphlet is a memoir that includes information on the mexican war.
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Speech of Hon. C.J. Faulkner: of Virginia, on the compromise--the presidency--political parties. Delivered in the House of representatives, August 2, 1852.
Charles James Faulkner
This pamphlet contains the speech of Hon. C.J. Faulkner: of Virginia, on the compromise--the presidency--political parties. Delivered in the House of representatives, August 2, 1852.
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Speeches of Messrs. Hayne and Webster in the United States Senate on the resolution of Mr. Foot, January, 1830.
Robert Young Hayne
The speechs are rebuttals to Samuel August Foot's resolution that instructed the committee on public lands to inquire into the limiting of public land sale.
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Remarks of Mr. R.M. Henderson of Cumberland County : Made in the House of Representatives, April 9, 1852, on the Bill Relative to the Case of the Commonwealth vs. the Bank of Pennsylvania.
Robert M. Henderson
Includes input by Thomas S. Bell expressing his opinion on the liabilityof the Bank of Pennsylvania to pay taxes.
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Speech of Hon. James M. Mason, of Virginia, on non-intervention: delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 6, 1852.
James Murray Mason
This pamphlet is a speech given by Hon. James M. Mason, of Virginia, on non-intervention: delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 6, 1852.
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Argument of John N. Purviance, Esq., in the Case of the Commonwealth vs. Bank of Pennsylvania.
John N. Purviance
Before the Judiciary Committee of the Senate, on the 6th and 7th February, 1852""--Page [3].
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An Address Delivered Before the New York Historical Society, February 23, 1852
Daniel Webster
An address on the importantce of history delivered before the New York Historical Society, February 23, 1852.
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Writings of Levi Woodbury, LL. D.: Political, judicial and literary
Levi Woodbury
Includes indexes.; Edited by Nahum Capen.
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Remarks of Mr. Douglas, of Illinois : Upon the Resolution Declaring the Compromise Measures to be a Definitive Adjustment of All Questions Growing out of Domestic Slavery, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 23, 1851.
Stephen Arnold Douglas
Personal remarks of Mr. Douglas, of Illinois delivered in the Senate of the United States, upon the resolution declaring the compromise measures to be a definitive adjustment of all questions growing out of domestic slavery, December 23, 1851.
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Annual catalogue of the instructors and pupils in the Young Ladies' Institute, Springfield, Illinois. July, 1851
Young Ladies' Institute, Springfield, Ill.
This pamphlet is a detailed description of the broad curriculum and philosophy of the school, which also featured a ""Little Boys Department,"" for the young brothers of female students. Meritocracy is stressed: ""The rich and poor may here meet and tread the paths of literature and science together .. The doors of the institute will never be closed against a deserving young lady who pants for knowledge, but has not the pecuniary means at present to gratify her thirst for learning."" The Rev. T. C. Teasdale, pastor of the Springfield Baptist Church, was principal of the school. The ten members of the school's Board of Examiners are listed, including ""Hon. A. Lincoln."" This is a sole edition of a rare Illinois imprint with pink printed wrappers, stitched . Pp. 16. One name neatly excised from text.