Joint Resolution Relative to the Decision of the United States Supreme Court
Source: Joint Resolution Relative to the Decision of the United States Supreme Court, Reversing Decision of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, General Laws of Wisconsin, 1859, 247–248, https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/acts/1859/JR4.pdf. Whereas, The […]
Veto Message Regarding Land Grant Colleges
Source: James Buchanan, Veto Message, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/203065. I return with my objections to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, […]
Veto Message on Rivers and Harbors Bill
Source: James K. Polk, Veto Message, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/201084. I have considered the bill entitled “An act making appropriations for the improvement […]
Proclamation Regarding the Nullifying Laws of South Carolina
Source: Andrew Jackson, Proclamation 43—Regarding the Nullifying Laws of South Carolina, Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/201756. Whereas a convention assembled in the state of […]
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
Source: Proceedings of the Convention of South Carolina upon the Subject of Nullification: Including the Remarks of Governor Hamilton, on Taking the President’s Chair; the Ordinance Nullifying the Tariff Laws […]
Fort Hill Address
Source: John Caldwell Calhoun, The Works of John C. Calhoun: Reports and Public Letters, ed. Richard K. Crallé (New York: D. Appleton, 1856), 60–62, 65–69, 73–74, 75–76, https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Works_of_John_C_Calhoun_Reports_and/I2njyLyfTK4C?hl=en&gbpv=0. … The […]
Letter from James Madison to Edward Everett
Source: “James Madison to [Edward Everett], 28 August 1830,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/99-02-02-2138. I have duly received your letter in which you refer to the “nullifying doctrine” advocated, as […]
Resolutions Adopted by the Hartford Convention
Source: Public Documents: Containing Proceedings of the Hartford Convention of Delegates … , Published by order of the [Massachusetts] Senate, 1815, 3, 9, 12, 13, 14–15, 20–21, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Public_Documents/NLtEAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. The delegates […]
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, ed. Philip S. Foner (Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 1999), 188–206, http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2945. My subject, then, fellow citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day […]
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Source: Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings, ed. Philip S. Foner (Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 1999), 188–206. http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/2945 My subject, then fellow-citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day, and […]