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1823-1839:
Various documents on the removal of the Cherokee Nation
(additional documents) |
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1824:
“The Hunters of Kentucky” - A Popular Song Celebrates the Victory of
Jackson and his
Frontier Fighters over the British |
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1825:
"Good Jackson Times. Farmers are doing well- of course every other man
must do well" - broadside |
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1825:
"Jackson
blasphemy. The following hymn to Jackson was sung and danced round the
Hickory
idols in the upper wards by the devotees of the man of blood
and his catilines ... Hymn to the
Immortal and Divine Jackson" - song
lyrics / broadside |
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1825:
writings of Margaret Bayard Smith: As Mrs. Smith finished a letter
written to Mrs. Boyd of
New York, begun on February 11, 1825, she
breathed a sigh of relief that the election of 1824 |
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1827:
"Dreadful
riot on Negro Hill! O read wid detention de melancholly tale and he
send you yelling to your bed [Cut] Copy of an intercepted letter from
Phillis, to her sister in the country,
describing the riot on Negro
Hill ... Boston" - broadside
(image) |
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1828:
"Murder will out !! Truth is mighty and shall prevail! Four years ago
I charged General Andrew
Jackson, in an address printed and published
in Nashville, with various acts of cruelty and
dishonesty when acting
officially ...
[Signed] Jesse Benton. City Hotel, Nashville, Oct. 13th,
1828. "We the
people" .... Extra--Washington, October 28, 1828" - broadside |
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1829:
Daniel Webster Anticipates Jackson's Arrival in
Washington, D.C. |
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1829:
Executive Order Regarding Military Pensions - Andrew
Jackson |
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1829:
First Inaugural
Address of Andrew Jackson |
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1829:
First
State of the Union Address - President Jackson |
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1829:
Jackson
Announces His Policy of Rotation in Office - speech |
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1829:
"Letter
from Mrs. Barney to Gen. Jackson. Baltimore" (6/13) - broadside |
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1829:
Letter from
Nicholas Biddle to Josiah Nichol (about govt. interference) |
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1829:
Margaret Bayard Smith Describes the Inaugural Celebration |
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1829:
"The Return of Rip Van
Winkle" - painting by John Quidor |
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1829:
Several Newspaper Accounts of President Andrew Jackson's First
Inauguration |
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1829-1838:
Various
Documents on the Removal of the Cherokee Nation |
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1830:
Census
Data for the Year 1830 |
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1830:
Charles Finney Recalls his Days in Oneida County, New York |
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1830:
Cherokee
Indian Removal Debate - U.S. Senate, April 15-17, 1830 |
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1830:
Chicksaw
Treaty |
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1830: "The
Georgia Gold Rush" - From the Niles' Weekly Register.
XXXIX; 995 (10/9) |
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1830:
President
Jackson Reports on Indian Removal - speech to Congress |
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1830:
Proclamation Regarding the Opening of United States Ports to British
Vessels - Andrew Jackson |
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1830:
Jackson's
Veto of the Maysville Road Bill |
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1830:
Letter from
Nicholas Biddle to Samuel Smith about President Jackson's
message of 1829 |
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1830:
"Liberty & Union, Now & Forever, One & Inseparable" speech -
Daniel Webster |
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1830:
Indian
Removal
Act |
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1830:
Memorial of the Cherokee Nation |
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1830:
The Second Reply to Hayne - Daniel Webster (1/26-27) |
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1830:
Second
State of the Union Address - President Jackson |
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1830:
Webster-Hayne Debate on the nature of the Union |
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1830s:
“I Was a Very Apt Scholar in This Kind of Street Etiquette” - William
Otter Brawls His Way
Through NYC |
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1831:
Cherokee
Nation v. Georgia |
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1831:
Democracy
in America
by
de Tocqueville (full text) |
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1831:
Letter to
Nicholas Biddle from Henry Clay - advises Biddle not to seek re-charter
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1831:
"The Perilous Condition of the Republic" - The New-England Magazine
/ Volume 1, Issue 4, October |
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1831:
Third
State of the Union Address - President Jackson |
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1831:
Journal Excerpts from de Tocqueville and Beaumont's Itinerary |
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1831:
de Tocqueville Appreciates American Political Participation
(1831-1832) |
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1831:
de Tocqueville Witnesses American Religious Enthusiasm (1831-1832) |
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1831:
Treasury
report giving praise to the National Bank
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1832:
Andrew
Jackson's "Proclamation to the People of SC on Nullification"
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1832:
Andrew
Jackson's Veto of the Bank Bill |
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1832:
Black Hawk Remembers Village Life Along the Mississippi |
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1832:
"Buffalo Bull-A Grand
Pawnee Warrior" - painting by George Caitlin |
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1832:
Fourth
State of the Union Address - President Jackson |
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1832:
Henry Clay's
Speech on the Jackson Bank Veto |
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1832:
"Jackson and the Nullifiers" - song lyrics/broadside |
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1832:
Letter from
Nicholas Biddle to Henry Clay on the effect of the Bank Veto and
Biddle's faith
in Henry Clay |
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1832:
Peter Osborne Speaks to a Crowd Celebrating American
Independence,
(7/5) |
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1832:
"President's message. December 4, 1832. Andrew Jackson" -
Advertiser-Extra Louisville,
Tuesday, 12/11 - broadside |
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1832:
Proclamation Regarding Nullification (Dec. 10) - Andrew Jackson |
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1832:
South
Carolina Ordinance of Nullification |
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1832:
Treaty
of Castor Hill, MO with the Kickapoo Indians (10/24) |
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1832:
Worcester
v. Georgia |
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1833:
"Advice
to Politicians" - Davy Crockett |
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1833:
Calhoun's
Speech Against the Force Bill - Day 1 (2/15/1833) |
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1833:
Calhoun's
Speech Against the Force Bill - Day 2 (2/16/1833) |
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1833:
Fifth
State of the Union Address - President Jackson |
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1833:
Force
Bill |
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1833:
James
Madison to Daniel Webster - "Right to Revolution" -
Writings
9:604-5 |
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1833:
Letter from Andrew Jackson to Martin Van Buren discussing the
nullification crisis (1/13) |
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1833:
Message
to the Senate and House Regarding South Carolina's
Nullification Ordinance (Jan. 16) - Andrew Jackson |
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1833:
Message to the Senate Regarding South Carolina's Nullification
Ordinance (Jan. 22) - Andrew Jackson |
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1833:
Second Inaugural
Address of Andrew Jackson |
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1834,
1840:
Henry
Clay on Political Power |
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1834:
Letter by Davy Crockett on Andrew Jackson |
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1834:
Sixth
State of the Union Address - President Jackson |
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1834:
"Statesmen - Their Rareness and Importance" - Daniel Webster -
The
New-England
Magazine Volume 7, Issue 2, August 1834 |
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1835:
"The Activity of the Body Politic" -
from Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville |
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1835:
"Antimasonic address to the anti-masonic voters of Norfolk County and
the ninth Congressional
district of Massachusetts" - broadside |
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1835:
Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States
- Samuel F. B. Morse |
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1835: "The General
Tendency of the Laws" - from Democracy in America by
Alexis de Tocqueville |
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1835:
Grand
Row at Tammany Hall, NY - Nile's Weekly Register |
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1835:
Nicholas
Biddle - Commencement Address |
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1835:
Seventh State of the Union Address - President Jackson |
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1835:
Society,
Manners, & Politics in America - Michel Chevalier |
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1835: "The
Sovereignty of the People" - from Democracy in America by
Alexis de Tocqueville |
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1835:
The Treaty of New Echota (12/29) |
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1836:
Cherokee Letter
Protesting the Treaty of Etocha |
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1836:
Declaration
of Rights adopted by the Equal Rights Party as their party
platform - drawn up by Dr. Moses Jacques
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1836:
Eighth
State of the Union Address - President Jackson |
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1836:
“Our Hearts are Sickened” - Letter from Chief John Ross of the
Cherokee, Georgia |
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1836:
"A
Political Testament" - Andrew Jackson
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1837:
"The
Democratic Review: An Introductory Statement of the Democratic
Principle - J. L. O'Sullivan |
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1837:
Inaugural
Address of Martin van Buren |
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1837:
Internal Improvements Act |
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1837:
Letter by John Quincy Adams on Mounting Sectional Antagonisms |
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1837:
"Slavery:
A Positive Good" - John C. Calhoun (2/6) |
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1837: Society,
Manners and Politics in the United States -
Michel Chevalier |
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1837:
“Time Did Not Reconcile Me To My Chains” - Charles Ball’s Journey to
SC |
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1837:
"View of the Capitol at Washington, 1837"
- painting by William H. Bartlett, engraved by
Joseph Bently
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1838:
General Winfield Scott to the Cherokee
Nation |
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1838:
The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions: Address Before
the Young Men's Lyceum of
Springfield, Illinois - Abraham Lincoln
(one of his earliest known speeches) |
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1838:
“So Cheapened the White Man’s Labor” - White Artisans
Contest the Labor of Black Workers |
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1839:
Constitution
of the Cherokee Nation |
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1839:
"The Effects of Intemperancy" - drawing |
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1839:
Peleg Sprague Campaigns for William Henry Harrison |
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1840:
Ad
for the Harrison "Log Cabin & Cider" Campaign |
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1840:
"Alas, Poor Henry Clay!" -
The United States Democratic Review
/ Volume 7, Issue 26, February 1840 |
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1840:
Census
Data for the Year 1840 |
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1840:
Democratic Party platform |
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1840:
Horace Mann Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education |
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1840:
Letter from James Buchanan on Party Competition and the Rise of the
Whigs |
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1840:
Letters
of John and Elizabeth Hodgdon |
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1840:
"Mr. Van Buren's Title to Re-Election" -
The United States
Democratic Review / Volume 7, Issue April - May 1840
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1840:
"Petitions
of the Catholics of America" |
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1840:
Song of the 1840 Presidential Election Campaign |
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1840:
"Stop That Barrel" - political cartoon on the 1840 election |
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1840:
Tabitha Dreams of a Better Society - one of the Lowell Mill Girls |
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1840:
The
"Tippecanoe & Tyler, Too" Campaign
- Horace Greeley |
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1841:
Argument of John Quincy Adams Before the Supreme Court of the
United States in the case
of the United States, Appellants, vs. Cinque, and others,
Africans, captured in the schooner Amistad, by Lieut. Gedney, Delivered on the 24th of
February and 1st of March 1841 |
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1841:
For the Cause of God and Man - John Quincy Adams against the slave
trade, diary entry (3/29) |
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1841:
Inaugural Address of
William Henry Harrison |
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1841:
"Look
before you leap! Opinion of the Attorney General of the United States
in relation to the
deeply interesting subject in which the people of
this state are now engaged. No state in the Union has a right to form
and
adopt Constitution containing any article or provision, conflicting
with, or in contravention to the Constitution of the United States ...
[1841?]" - broadside |
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1842:
"A
Christmas Carol. The visit of Saint Nicholas" - written
by Prof. C. C. Moore -broadside
image |
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1843:
Liberty Party platform of 1843 |
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1844:
"Commercial Reciprocity and the American System" -
The United
States Democratic Review / Volume 14, Issue 71, May |
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1844:
Democratic Party Platform
Whig Party Platform |
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1844:
"First and Second-Rate Men" -
The United States Democratic Review
/ Volume 15, Issue 74, August |
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1844:
Philadelphia
Anti-Catholic Riots - Pennsylvania Freeman (7-18-1844) |
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1844:
"Review
of Jackson's address to the Whigs of Rhode Island ... [Signed] Whig of
the Old School broadside |
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1844-1860:
Presidential
Voting by States: 1844-1860 |
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|
Treaty of Wang Hya - excerpts |
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1845:
"The
Cruise of the Dove" - a whaler's song |
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1845:
Eulogy on the Character of Andrew Jackson - Jefferson Davis (6/28) |
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1845:
"A
Much-Needed Reform" - The United States Democratic Review /
Volume 16, Issue 82, April 1845 |
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1845:
Knickerbocker First Baseball Rules (9/23) |
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1845:
"Political Patronage" -
The United States Democratic Review /
Volume 17, Issue 87, September 1845 |
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1845:
"The
Result of the Election" - The American Whig Review / Volume 1,
Issue 2, Feb 1845 |
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1846:
"The Independent Treasury" -
The American Whig Review / Volume
3, Issue 5, May 1846 |
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1846:
"The War with Mexico" -
The American Whig Review / Volume 3,
Issue 6, June 1846 |
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1846:
Whig cartoon -
"Funeral Obsequies of Free Trade"
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1847:
Independent
Treasury Act |
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1847:
Poetry written by Abraham Lincoln about his early boyhood |
