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- Works of James Buchanan, The, Vol. 5
- Compiled and edited by John Bassett Moore, this twelve-volume set of the collected letters and speeches of James Buchanan, spanning his entire political career, includes both personal and professional documents.
- James Buchanan Resource Center
- Speech of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, of Penn., on the Presidential Question, and the Slavery Issue: Delivered in the House of Representatives, August 12, 1852
- Antislavery movements
- Thaddeus Stevens suggests that the majority of the nation opposes slavery, but that the institution has grown in importance, replacing other notable issues such as agriculture and commerce.
- Slavery and Abolition
- Sinfulness of Slaveholding in all Circumstances; Tested by Reason and Scripture
- Slavery
- Drawing upon the writings of the Apostle Paul, James Birney argues that slavery is counter to the teachings of the Bible and that the institution is preventing the nation from advancing.
- Slavery and Abolition
- Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States, Vol. 2
- The executor of the estate of James Buchanan selected George T. Curtis to write this two-volume biography of the fifteenth president.
- James Buchanan Resource Center
- Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion
- James Buchanan outlines the development of the great crisis that culminated in the outbreak of the Civil War at the end of his presidency. He places the polarizing issue of slavery at the center of turmoil, commenting on decades of hardening views...
- James Buchanan Resource Center
- Letters of Fabius, in 1788, on the Federal Constitution; and in 1797 on the Present Situation of Public Affairs, The
- John Dickinson pens two series of letters under the pseudonym "Fabius." The first series appears in 1788, to rally support for the ratification of the new United States Constitution. In the second series, written in 1797, Dickinson comments with...
- Their Own Words
- An Inquiry into the History of Slavery; Its Continuance; and Remarks upon the Abolition Tracts of William E. Channing
- Slavery
- Thomas Thornton, President of Centenary College in Mississippi, authors a book in defense of slavery in the United States.
- Their Own Words
- Address on Intemperance Delivered Before the Temperance Society of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, An
- Samuel Blanchard How, Presbyterian minister and newly appointed president of Dickinson College, speaks at length to the Cumberland County (Pennsylvania) Temperance Society on July 5, 1830 on the evils of drink.
- Their Own Words
- Report of the Lemmon Slave Case: Containing Points and Arguments of Counsel on Both Sides, and Opinions of All the Judges
- Antislavery movements
- In this case, New York ruled definitively against slave owners being able to hold their slaves when traveling in a free state.
- Slavery and Abolition
- Report of the Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Opinions of the Judges thereof, in the Case of Dred Scott versus John F. A. Sanford
- Slavery
- Benjamin Howard prints the full opinions of each of the Supreme Court justices in the landmark 1857 Dred Scott Case.
- Their Own Words
- Address of the Democratic State Central Committee, To The People of Pennsylvania
- Slavery
- The Central Committee composed a pamphlet of possible voter questions and answers for the next election. Among the issues discussed are the Bank and Tariff issues referencing the Bankrupt Law, the Independent Treasury and the Whig party. The...
- Slavery and Abolition
- A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical, and Historical View of Slavery
- Slavery
- Hopkins, a Northern supporter of slavery, defends slavery as the will, and law, of God. He does not explain how slavery might be abolished without breaking the law of God, but he does acknowledge the possibility of Abolition.
- Slavery and Abolition
- Review of Pamphlets on Slavery and Colonization
- Slavery
- First published in the Quarterly Christian Spectator, Bacon reviews three works: Garrison's "Thoughts on African colonization", Cropper's "Letter to Thomas Clarkson", and "Abolition of Negro slavery" in American quarterly review, September 1832.
- Slavery and Abolition
- A South-Side View of Slavery; or, Three Months at the South, in 1854
- Slavery
- Nehemiah Adams, a Northerner, recounts his impressions of slavery and Southern life acquired during his visit to the South.
- Slavery and Abolition
- American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
- Slavery
- Abolitionist Theodore Weld, with the assistance of the American Anti-Slavery Society, publishes a compendium of slavery accounts drawn primarily from newspapers and other printed sources.
- Slavery and Abolition
- Report of the Trial of Castner Hanway for Treason, in the Resistance of the Execution of the Fugitive Slave Law of September 1850
- Antislavery movements
- James J. Robbins, working from the notes of court reporters Arthur Cannon and Samuel Dalrymple, recounts the trial of Castner Hanway, who stood accused for his involvement in the Christiana Riot.
- Slavery and Abolition
- Notes on Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being a Logical Answer to its Allegations and Inferences against Slavery as an Institution
- Slavery
- Edward Stearns refutes the anti-slavery views expressed in Harriet Beecher Stowe's popular and controversial work.
- Slavery and Abolition
- Works of James Buchanan, The, Vol. 1
- Compiled and edited by John Bassett Moore, this twelve-volume set of the collected letters and speeches of James Buchanan, spanning his entire political career, includes both personal and professional documents.
- James Buchanan Resource Center
- Works of James Buchanan, The, Vol. 3
- Compiled and edited by John Bassett Moore, this twelve-volume set of the collected letters and speeches of James Buchanan, spanning his entire political career, includes both personal and professional documents.
- James Buchanan Resource Center
- Observations in the East, Chiefly in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor, vol.2
- John Price Durbin, a devout Methodist and college president, reflects on his travels in Asia Minor, where he followed the route of the Israelites in their flight from Egypt on to the Holy Land, describing both the historical and the contemporary...
- Their Own Words

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