Erie Canal; New York (State); Enlargement; Canal Bill; Loco Foco; Pamphlet
Page 16 of a sixteen page pamphlet on the Enlargement of the Erie Canal. In 1851, controversy arose regarding the enlargement of the canal. This shows excerpts from various New York newspapers voicing protest against the project to enlarge the Erie...
Barnard sends Markham a copy of Oklahoma's New Constitution for his comments regarding child labor, education, and other labor issues. Barnard also discusses her upcoming attendance at the National Association of Charities and Corrections...
Carr writes to Markham inquiring about using a letter Markham wrote about the proposed constitution for the Fellowship at a conference which he hopes Markham will attend. Carr discusses membership in the Christian Socialist Fellowship.
Four-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated December 21, 1860, discussing an extradition case in Toronto, Canada [involving slave John Anderson]. Letter includes an undated newspaper clipping entitled "The...
Lansing, John, 1754-1829; United States. Constitutional Convention (1787); United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)--History--Sources; United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)--Sources; United States. Constitution; United States....
Two autograph notebooks (1787 May 25-June 16 and 1787 June 18-July 10), containing John Lansings notes taken during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Some contents include: transcriptions of various committee reports, including a...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Athol; Texas. Constitution (1845); Antislavery movements--United States
Two-page letter dated November 19, 1845, from Lysander Spooner in Athol [Massachusetts] to [George] Bradburn. Includes manuscript copy of a letter from J. [James] Fulton, Jr. to Bradburn discussing "Anti-Texas efforts" in Washington, D. C. and the...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Maine--Bangor; Antislavery movements--United States
Four-page letter dated September 10, 1845, from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Bangor, Maine, discussing general news of the abolitionist movement, mentioning Gerrit Smith, Mr. [Joshua?] Leavitt, and J. [James?]...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Athol; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States
Four-page letter dated October 27, 1845, from Lysander Spooner in Athol [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Boston, discussing Supreme Court decisions related to slavery, the death of Spooner's mother, and the public reception of his book [The...
Jerry Rescue Convention; Antislavery movements--United States
Three-page printed "address" by Gerrit Smith presented at the Jerry Rescue Convention in Syracuse [New York]. On back, addressed to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, in Smith's hand.
Six-page letter from Gerrit Smith in Peterboro [New York] to Lysander Spooner dated December 27, 1860, dicussing an extradition case in Toronto, Canada [involving slave John Anderson].
Extradition--Canada--Toronto; Fugitive slaves--Canada-Toronto; Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States
Two-page letter from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated January 1, 1861, in which he thanks Smith for his visit to Candada and disucsses other abolitionist news.
Clippings; Democratic Party (Kings County, N.Y.); Walker, James John, 1881-1946
Article on the reception Mayor Jimmy Walker received upon opening the campaign, and his appeal to voters "not to allow indifference to defeat the amendment to the State Constitution."
Wars; Lewis Morris; Gouverneur Morris; Morris Family; Monuments; Declaration of Independence; U.S. Constitution
Two resolutions to erect monuments--one for honor Civil War soldiers from the Bronx; and the other to honor statesmen Lewis Morris and Gouverneur Morris. In--Minutes of Meetings, Vol. 2, p. 20-21.
Town of Cornwall; Town of Highland; U.S. Government; West Point; Hudson River; Cold Spring; McKeels Corners; Nelsons Corners; Nelsonville; Constitution Island; Mount Taur; Bull Hill;
Section 13; Portion of Orange County; Portion of Putnam County; Scale 1200 feet to the inch
Five-page letter dated August 20, 1866, from A. P. Aldrich in Barnwell, South Carolina, to Lysander Spooner [of Boston, Massachusetts] regarding the economic hardships faced by the South during the reconstruction era.
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Maine--Bangor; Antislavery movements--United States
Four-page letter dated September 8, 1845, from Geo. [George] Bradburn in Bangor [Maine] to Lysander Spooner of Boston, Massachusetts, describing several newspaper and circular reviews of Spooner's book [The Unconstitutionality of Slavery],...
