Lincoln’s History of the Slavery Issue
October 16, 1854 In order to get a clear understanding of what the Missouri Compromise is, a short history … will perhaps be proper. When we established our independence, we […]
Annual Message to Congress (1861)
Abraham Lincoln, First Annual Message, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202175. Fellow Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: In the midst […]
Slaughter-House Cases
Source: 83 U.S. (16 Wall.) 36 (1873), https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/83/36 Mr. Justice MILLER … delivered the opinion of the court. These cases are brought here by writs of error to the Supreme […]
Speech Introducing the Fourteenth Amendment
Source: Senator Jacob Howard, Speech introducing the 14th Amendment, May 23, 1866, Congressional Globe, Senate, 39th Congress, 1st Session, 2764–2766, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=072/llcg072.db&recNum=845. … The section of the amendment they have submitted […]
Message to Congress in Special Session
Source: Abraham Lincoln, Special Session Message, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202522. … It might seem at first thought to be of little difference whether […]
South Carolina Declaration of the Causes of Secession
Source: Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union; and the Ordinance of Secession (Charleston, South Carolina: Evans & Cogswell, […]
Annual Message to Congress (1876)
Simon, John Y., “The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 28: November 1, 1876-September 30, 1878” (2005). Volumes of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. 27. https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/usg-volumes/27 To the Senate and […]
Annual Message to Congress (1875)
Simon, John Y., “The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 26: 1875” (2003). Volumes of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. 25. https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/usg-volumes/25 To the Senate and House of Representatives: In […]
Annual Message to Congress (1874)
Simon, John Y., “The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 25: 1874” (2003). Volumes of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. 24. https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/usg-volumes/24 To the Senate and House of Representatives: Since […]
Annual Message to Congress (1873)
Simon, John Y., “The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 24: 1873” (2000). Volumes of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant. 8. https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/usg-volumes/8 To the Senate and House of Representatives: […]