The Annals of America : volumes 8-10.
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Primary sources covering United States history from Columbus to the 1980s. Viewpoints and opposing viewpoints of issues are presented.
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Table of Contents
v. 8. 1850-1857 A house dividing. / 1850: Compromise resolution / Henry Clay
Slavery in the territories / Horace Mann
Either slavery or disunion / John C. Calhoun
A plea for harmony and peace / Daniel Webster
"Ichabod" / John Greenleaf Whittier
A higher law than the Constitution / William H. Seward
Slavery and expansion / Henry Clay
Proposals of the Committee of Thirteen
Defense of the proposals
A defense of the President's plan for compromise / Anonymous
Resolutions of the Nashville Convention
The Compromise of 1850
Military presidents
Massachusetts Compulsory Schooling Law
Schooling adapted to all classes in society / Francis Wayland
Railroad land grants / Anonymous
Hillside ditches and circular plowing
A plan for the promotion of public health / Lemuel Shattuck
Hawthorne, Shakespeare, and a great American literature / Herman Melville
A few words on rural architecture / A. J. Downing.
The late Cuba expedition / Anonymous
A golden rule for foreign affairs / Millard Fillmore
America's interest in foreign Democratic insitutions / Daniel Webster
The state of the nation / Theodore Parker
1851: Country churches / A. J. Downing
Walking westward / Henry David Thoreau
Nostalgic songs of the westward movement
"Sweet Betsy from Pike"
"Joe Bowers"
" Acres of Clams"
The Hopedale community / Adin Ballou
The Underground Railroad / Levi Coffin
A uniform system of jurisprudence / Anonymous
An industrial university for Illinois / Jonathan Baldwin Turner
1852: The suitability of moral declarations in foreign policy
In defense of such declarations / Lewis Cass
In opposition to such declarations / James C. Jones.
Instructions for Commodore Perry / Charles Magill Conrad
Economic effect of railroads
Free land and the supply of labor / Josiah Sutherland
Women's rights / Horace Greeley
The North American Phalanx / Charles Sears
Arguments against the Maine liquor law / Anonymous
A public library for Boston
Uncle Tom defies Simon Legree / Harriet Beecher Stowe
Songs of slaves and their masters
"Blue Tail Fly"
"All the Pretty Little Horses"
1853: Plans for a Negro school
The Children's Aid Society / Charles Loring Brace
Appeal by the women of Massachusetts for civil rights
The promise of the Great Plains / Jesup W. Scott
"Canaday-I-O"
Observations of some Hungarian visitors / Francis and Theresa Pulszky
The American proclivity for association / Fredrika Bremer
Against the imitation of European universities / Wilber F. Storey.
1854: The crime of Mrs. Douglass in teaching colored children to read / Richard Baker
King cotton and his subjects / Frederick Law Olmstead
The failure of free society / George Fitzhugh
Opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Bill
Defense of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill / Stephen A. Douglas
"The Kansas Emigrants" / John Greenleaf Whittier
On the fugitive slave law / Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Abolitionist Hymn"
The hireling and the slave / William J. Grayson
The difficulty of being a Negro Christian / Charlotte L. Forten
Fragments on government and slavery / Abraham Lincoln
Against the extension of slavery / Abraham Lincoln
Providing for the indigent insane / William H. Seward
The Ostend Manifesto.
Life in the backwoods / James B. Finley
Riding herd to California / James G. Bell
Where I lived, and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau
1855: The emergence of an American character / Philip Schaff
The kingdom of cotton / David Christy
The college and the church / William S. Tyler
Massachusetts Liberty Act
The birth and growth of a railroad town / Frithjof Meidell
California Negros appeal for legal equality
Arkansas resolutions on the Kansas-Nebraska Act
1856: An appeal to southerners to settle Kansas
The crime against Kansas / Charles Sumner
The present crisis in American affairs / Theodore Parker
Settler's songs
"Little Old Sod Shanty"
"Kansas Boys"
Economic advantages of the frontier / Christopher C. Andrews
Constitution of the vigilantes of San Francisco.
Marital law in the Washington Territory / W. H. Wallace et al.
The progress of the Americans in the art of writing / Anonymous
Letter to Emerson / Walt Whitman
Wicked architecture / Walt Whitman
The duty of the American scholar / George William Curtis
Southern education for southerners / John A. Engelhard
Adverse views on foreign immigration / John P. Sanderson
Business success / Freeman Hunt
1857: Dred Scott v. Sandford / Roger B. Taney
Negro protest over the Dred Scott decision
Ohio resolution on the Dred Scott decision
Address to the people of Kansas / Robert J. Walker
The Dred Scott decision and the Declaration of Independence / Abraham Lincoln
Advantages of independence for the slaveholding states / Edmund Ruffin.
Slaves without masters / George Fitzhugh
Plantation management / J. W. Fowler
Slavery and the deficiency of commerce in the South / Hinton R. Helper
New England nativism / Henry J. Gardner
"Cape Cod Chanty"
Rhode Island child labor law
Report on higher education in New York
Slums and tenant housing in New York
Trade with China under suitable guarantees / Lewis Cass
"Ode for a Social Meeting" / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Virtues of the American mind / Count Gurowski.
v. 9. 1858-1865 The crisis of the Union. / 1858: The union and popular sovereignty
A house divided / Abraham Lincoln
Reply to Lincoln / Stephen A. Douglas
The Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Douglas' speech at Ottawa, August 21
Lincoln's reply at Ottawa, August 21
Lincoln's speech at Freeport, August 27
Douglas' reply at Freeport, August 27
Licoln's speech at Jonesboro, September 15
Douglas' reply at Jonesboro, September 15
Lincoln's speech at Charleston, September 18
Douglas' speech at Galesburg, October 7
Lincoln's reply at Galesburg, October 7
Lincoln's speech at Alton, October 15
Douglas' second speech at Alton, October 15
An irrepressible conflict / William H. Seward
The right of the United States to rule Mexico
On the need for physical fitness / Anonymous.
On old age / Oliver Wendell Holmes
American nationality / Rufus Choate
Mott v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company / Ellis Lewis
The first Atlantic cable / George Templeton Strong
On supporting the local economy
Farmers' platform
Farming / Ralph Waldo Emerson
A plea for scientific agriculture / Anonymous
A call for a secularized university / Henry P. Tappan
On Sunday closing laws / David Smith Terry and Stephen J. Field
1859: The influence abroad of American inventiveness / Anonymous
True Americanism / Carl Schurz
Nullification in the north
How to be the perfect housewife / Louis Antoine Godey
Labor, education, and the American farmer / Abraham Lincoln
The Cooper Union for the advancement of science and art / Peter Cooper.
Interview with Brigham Young / Horace Greeley
A plea for Captain John Brown / Henry David Thoreau
Last speech to the court / John Brown
"John Brown's Body"
"Dixie" / Daniel Decatur Emmett and Albert Pike
1860: The Brahmin caste of New England / Oliver Wendell Holmes
The natural rights of civilized women / Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"The Children's Hour" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Address at Cooper Union / Abraham Lincoln
"I Hear America Singing" / Walt Whitman
An essa on the muel / Henry Wheeler Shaw (Josh Billings)
The Pony Express
Defense of a Negro pioneer land claim
Petition by Sylvester Gray
Report of the senate commitee on public lands
"Misgivings" / Herman Melville.
Party platforms of 1860
Consitutional Union platform
Republican platform
Democratic platform (Douglas)
Democratic platform (Breckenridge)
Georgia debate on secession
For Secession / Robert Toombs
Against secession / Alexander H. Stephens
The impending disruption of the Union / James Buchanan
War or compromise
Opposition to compromise / Benjamin F. Wade
Compromise resolutions / John J. Crittenden
Secession means war / John Sherman
1861: The government's right to self-defense / James Russell Lowell
Proposal for the secession of New York City / Fernando Wood
Economic reasons for secession
Inaugural address / Jefferson Davis
"Ethnogenesis" / Henry Timrod
Compromise resolutions of the House of Representatives
The Union at any price / John J. Crittenden
First inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln.
A plan to avoid civil war
Suggestions to the President on domestic and foreign policy / William H. Seward
Reply to Seward / Abraham Lincoln
Resignation from the United States Army / Robert E. Lee
Letter to General Scott
Letter to Anne Marshall
War message / Jefferson Davis
A war to preserve the Union / Abraham Lincoln
"All Quiet Along the Potomac To-Night" / Ethel Lynn Beers
Negro refugees in the Northern Army / Benjamin F. Butler
An alliance between the Confederacy and the Indians
"Song of the Mississippi Volunteers"
Military proclamations and civil law / Abraham Lincoln
A Southern Christian view of slavery
Patriotic songs of North and South
"The Battle-Cry of Freedom" / George Frederick Root
"The Bonnie Blue Flag" / Harry McCarty
War, industry, and invention.
1861-1864: Diary of a Southern Belle / Mary Boykin Chesnut
Negro hopes for emancipation /John S. Rock
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" / Julia Ward Howe
Resolutions on secession and reconstruction / Charles Sumner
American and European interests in Mexico / William H. Seward
A plea for compensated emancipation / Abraham Lincoln
Diary of a Confederate spy / Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Ameriky for white men / David Ross Locke ("Petroleum V. Nasby")
Concerning wartime taxes in the North / Thaddeus Stevens
The Homestead Act
Public lands for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts
"The Brass-Mounted Army"
Advice to the President on conducting the war / George B. McClellan
Discussion of war aims
Freeing the slaves / Horace Greeley
Saving the Union / Abraham Lincoln.
Negro opposition to Lincoln's offer of colonization
Butler's brutality in the South / Alexander Walker
"Barbara Frietchie" / John Greenleaf Whittier
Dilemma of a Norwegian immigrant / Anonymous
"Three Hundred Thousand More" / James Sloan Gibbons
Opposition to conscription in the Confederacy / Joseph Emerson Brown
Financial resources of the North / Anonymous
American and European cities / Anthony Trollope
The spirit of America / Israel Benjamin
Two poems / Emily Dickinson
"I Cannot Live with You" / Emily Dickinson
"I Like to See it Lap the Miles" / Emily Dickinson
The preservation of the Catholic orthodoxy in America / Orestes A. Brownson
Lincoln and the American character / Nathanial Hawthorne.
1863: Emancipation Proclamation / Abraham Lincoln
Songs about freedom
"Many Thousand Gone"
"Kingdom Coming" / Henry Clay Work
Appointment of General Hooker / Abraham Lincoln
Opposition to the theater in time of war / John Lansing Burrows
The press and wartime security / William Tecumseh Sherman
Resolutions against foreign mediation
A plea to stop the war / Clement L. Vallandigham
The question of continuing the war
New Jersey peace resolutions
Protest of the New Jersey soldiers
Government seizure of property in the Confederacy
Our policy of nonintervention / William H. Seward
Habeas Corpus in time of rebellion / Abraham Lincoln
Reflections on the charge at Gettysburg / George E. Pickett.
Conscription problems in the South / Braxton Bragg et al.
The executive and the caprice of the people / William Tecumseh Sherman
The future of the free Negro / Louis Agassiz
Emancipation as a military measure / Abraham Lincoln
Canals and railroads / Anonymous
Manufacturers' objection to an income tax
Opposition to the rise of labor unions
The beginning of Reconstruction / Abraham Lincoln
A soldier's plea for equal pay / James Henry Gooding
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" / Patrick S. Gilmore
The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln
Economic problems of the Confederacy / James Alexander Seddon
Anti-Negro rioting in Detroit / Thomas Buckner
"Marching Song of the First Arkansas" / Lindley Miller
A program for Reconstruction / Abraham Lincoln
Proclamation of amnesty
Annual message to Congress.
Money and manners in the North / Edward Dicey
"Paul Revere's Ride" / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1864: The conditions and prospect for art in America / James Jackson Jarves
A Southern national literature / Frank H. Alfriend
Civil rights in the Confederacy / Alexander H. Stephens
"Come Home Father" / Henry Clay Work
How Americans die in battle / Frank Wilkenson
"Tenting on the Old Camp Ground" / Walter Kittredge
Andersonville Diary / John L. Ransom
"Charleston" / Henry Timrod
An act to encourage immigration
A call for an international trades' assembly
Trade with Japan / William H. Seward
Opposition to the Congressional plan for Reconstruction / Abraham Lincoln.
The instability of American life / George Perkins Marsh
Work and play in America / Thomas Low Nichols
1865: The First International to Abraham Lincoln
American laborers and immigrants / James D. Burn
Advertisement to supply immigrant contract labor
Army attrocities against the Indians / E. W. Wynkoop
"Marching Through Georgia" / Henry Clay Work
Second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln
A final exhortation to the Confederate people / Jefferson Davis
"Come Up from the Fields Father" / Walt Whitman
The night before Appomattox / George E. Pickett
The meeting at Appomattox Court House / Horace Porter
General order number nine / Robert E. Lee
Last public address / Abraham Lincoln.
The death of President Lincoln / Gideon Welles
Proclamation of amnesty and pardon for the Confederate States / Andrew Johnson
Provisional government in North Carolina / Andrew Johnson
A platform for Northern democrats / David Ross Locke ("Petroleum V. Nasby")
Sheep in the midst of wolves
An open letter to the people of Texas / John H. Reagan
Open letter to Artemus Ward / Charles H. Smith ("Bill Arp")
The restoration of the Union / Robert E. Lee
The rights of the conqueror / Thaddeus Stevens
Opposing views on the restoration of the Union
A Republican editorial
A Democratic editorial
Shorter hours and higher wages / Ira Steward
- On postwar industrial expansion / John Sherman
The first fruits of reconstruction / Horace Greeley
Justice but not equality for the Negro / Benjamin G. Humphreys.
Mississippi black code
Apprentice law
Vagrancy law
Civil rights of freedmen
Penal code
Report on conditions in the South / Ulysses S. Grant
"Laus Deo!" / John Greenleaf Whittier.
v. 10. 1866-1883 Reconstruction and industrialization. / 1866: The American soldier / William F. G. Shanks
Veto of Freedmen's Bureau Bill / Andrew Johnson
Against the radical Republican / Andrew Johnson
Debate on civil and states' rights
Veto of Civil Rights Bill / Andrew Johnson
Reply to Johnson / Lyman Trumbull
Civil Rights Act
For immediate restoration of the state governments / Alexander H. Stephens
Report of the Joint Committee on reconstruction
Ex Parte Milligan / David Davis
"The Good Old Rebel" / Innes Randolph
Consideration for our late enemies / Herman Melville
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" / Walt Whitman
Wealth and the division of labor / Amasa Walker.
Efforts to encourage immigration in the South
Government aid to the poor / George Nye Boardman
Religious schooling for wayward youths
A Norwegian in Minnesota / Anonymous
Representation for all southern states / Andrew Johnson
1867: Difficulties of law enforcement in Mississippi / Thomas J. Wood
Veto of Tenure of Office Act / Andrew Johnson
Congressional interference with the command of the Army
The struggle between Congress and the President over reconstruction
First Reconstruction Act
First Reconstruction Veto / Andrew Johnson
Second Reconstruction Veto / Andrew Johnson
Trees for an arid West / Ferdinand V. Hayden
Proposal for an agricultural society
The problems and prospect of labor / Andrew c. Cameron
Child labor and school attendance
"One's-Self I Sing" / Walt Whitman.
1868: Illinois proposal for a compulsory school law
Knowledge, mental training, and classical study
Arraignment of the Republican Party / Samuel J. Tilden
The impeachment of Andrew Johnson
For conviction / Charles Sumner
For aquittal / James Grimes
Civil War amendments to the Constitution
The Ku Klux Klan
The Knights of the White Camelia
Spirituals
"Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?"
"Mary and Martha"
The Gospel Train"
"Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho"
"Ezekiel Saw the Wheel"
"My Lord, What a Mourning"
1869: Congressional debate on Haiti and Santo Domingo
The training proper in scientific schools / Charles W. Eliot.
Call for a farmers' convention / Henry C. Wheeler
The struggle for Erie / Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
Silver in Nevada / Henry Eno
The promise of Alaska / William H. Seward
Spirit of the Tennessee Press / Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain")
The elective curriculum / Charles W. Eliot
The Constitution and civil service reform / Henry Adams
Against religious exercises in public schools
The diffusion of education and the degredation of culture / Francis Parkman
1870: National colored labor platform
The unplanned growth of cities / Frederick Law Olmsted
Concerning the annexation of the Dominican Republic
For Annexation / Ulysses S. Grant
Against Annexation / Charles Sumner
Against the importation of "Coolie" labor
"Plain Language from Truthful James" / Bret Harte
Indian Rights / Red Cloud
My watch / Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain").
1871: Kentucky Negroes appeal for protection of life and property
The Ku Klux Klan Act
Federal grand jury report on the Ku Klux Klan
Resolutions against the profit system / Wendell Phillips
"The Schooner E. A. Hornton"
Anti-Chinese rioting in Los Angeles / P. S. Dorney
The Chicago Fire / Frederick Law Olmsted
Observations of an Austrian Diplomat / Count von Hübner
1872: The lost children of New York / Charles Loring Brace
The dilemma of Indian policy / Francis A. Walker
1873: Nine demands of liberalism for separation of church and state / Francis Ellingwood Abbot
"John Henry"
Slaughter-house cases / Samuel F. Miller and Stephen J. Field
The Farmers' Declaration of Independence
1874: Declaration of purpose of the National Grange
"Corn" / Sidney Lanier
Wage slaves in Pennsylvania coal mines / Samuel Ab Thomas
Negro legislators of South Carolina / James S. Pike.
Militant white supremacy
Revival songs
"Gimme That Old-Time Religion"
" She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain"
Concerning property exempt from taxation / Charles W. Eliot
1875: Secret labor organizations
Postwar plantation life / Edward King
Military lessons of the war / William Tecumseh Sherman
"I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" / Thomas P. Westendorf
The Curious Republic of Gondour / Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain")
1876: Negro hopes for assimilation / Blanche K. Bruce
An act to keep children off the stage
The separation of church and school / Ulysses S. Grant
Theory and practice in industrial engineering / Alexander Lyman Holley
Work songs
"Buffalo Skinners"
"Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill"
"Factory Girl"
1877: On permitting women to preach
Munn v. Illinois / Morrison R. Waite and Stephen J. Field
Riches of the desert / Brigham Young
Chinese immigration to the United States / Edwin R. Meade.
1878: The knights of labor
A comparison of American and British institution / William Gladstone
"Here Rattler Here"
1879: Communism in California / Edwin L. Godkin
McGuffey's Lessons
Things present and absent in American life / Henry James
The great American landscape / Walt Whitman
Fellow Travelers / Robert Louis Stevenson
Progress and civiliazation / Henry George
Veto of the Army Appropriation Act / Rutherford B. Hayes
1880: Advice to a young politician / William McElroy
The greenback party / James Baird Weaver
The Communismy of a discriminating income tax / David A. Wells
The development of small farming in the South / Sidney Lanier
Barbed wire fences
Cowboy songs
"The Dying Cowboy"
" Cowboy's Life"
"The Old Chisholm Trail"
"Good-Bye, Old Paint"
1881: Modern civilization and American nervousness / George M. Beard
The scholar in a republic / Wendell Phillips
The Indian dilemma
Civilization or extinction / Carl Schurz.
The Indian and the white man / Helen Hunt Jackson
A congress of nations of North and South America / James G. Blaine
1882: Standard Oil trust agreement
"Jesse James"
Political liberty in the South / Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain")
Chinese execution act
"Charles Guiteau"
Inequality, liberty, and progress / William Graham Sumner
The factory system / Carroll D. Wright
1883: Christian Science / Mary Baker Eddy
Labor and capital
Testimony of a labor leader / Samuel Gompers
Testimony of a factory manager / Thomas L. Livermore
Testimony of a physician / Timothy D. Stow
Civil rights cases / Joseph P. Bradley and John M. Harlan
The color line in America / Frederick Douglass
An appeal to the European immigrants to come to the South / A. J. McWhirter
What social classes do not owe each other / William Graham Sumner
The paradox of poverty / Henry George.
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