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This pamphlet, issued by the New York State Woman Suffrage Party, quoted speeches and letters by President Woodrow Wilson to urge New York men to vote for woman suffrage on November 6, 1917. [WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE].
Pamphlet. "What President Wilson Says," New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., ca. June-October 1917. 4 pp., 5 x 7 in.
Excerpts:

"'We are fighting for the essential part of it all, (democracy) namely ... to have a right to a voice in the Government under which we live, and when men and women are equally admitted to those rights, we have the best safeguard of justice and of peace that the world affords. There is no other safeguard.'—May 16, 1917." (p1)

Letter to Carrie Chapman Catt, January 27, 1917:

"As you know, I have a very real interest in the extension of the Suffrage to the women and I feel that every step in this direction should be applauded." (p2)

Address to National Convention of Suffragists, September 8, 1916:

"Woman Suffrage is going to prevail, and that… Read More

JOHN A. ANDREW, GOVERNOR.
Autograph Manuscript Signed. Boston, Massachusetts, November, 1863. 1p., 7¾ x 9⅞ in. Excerpt

"We must forget our feelings save the one,

We must resign all passions save our purpose,

We must behold no object save our Country,

And only look on death as beautiful

So that the sacrifice ascend to Heaven,

And draw down Freedom on her Evermore."

On Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Department letterhead.

John A. Andrew (1818-1867), Civil War Governor of Massachusetts and ardent abolitionist first to respond to Lincoln's call for troops; raised the famed 54th MA Reg't.

William Bundy's 5-volume set of the "Senator Gravel Edition" of the Pentagon Papers, with annotations, marginal notes, and two legal-size pages with handwritten notes arranged chronologically. [VIETNAM WAR].
Books. The Pentagon Papers. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971-1972. First Editions. Five paperback books, volumes I-IV in green printed covers, volume V in orange. 5¾ x 9 inches each. Pages varies by volume. Volume V (Critical Essays, edited by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn) has a Beacon Press review copy slip taped to the half-title and an address label paperclipped to the same page. The label is addressed to Bundy as editor of Foreign Affairs and has a handwritten date, "9/25/72."
Historical Background

Defense Secretary Robert McNamara commissioned a massive study, later called the Pentagon Papers, in 1967 and appointed Pentagon arms control director Leslie Gelb as the project's supervisor. Gelb hired 36 military officers, civilian policy experts, and historians to write the study's… Read More

"It is a fact that the enslavement of human beings has so far infused its insidious poison into the very hearts of the Southern people, that they have come to believe and declare the evil of slavery to be a good, and to require the power of Government to be exerted to maintain, extend, and perpetuate an institution that enables thousands to sell their own children, to be enslaved, with all their posterity, into hopeless bondage...."

The founder of New York City's Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art echoes the language and logic of the Emancipation Proclamation (as well as citing some Southern pro-slavery arguments to demonstrate their ridiculousness) in this open letter to President Lincoln. Cooper and the Cooper Union had long been advocates of abolition and both Lincoln and Frederick Douglass had famously lectured at the institution. PETER COOPER. [SLAVERY].
Pamphlet. Letter of Peter Cooper, on Slave Emancipation, Loyal Publication Society, New York, 1862, 8pp.,… Read More

Concord, N.H., 1866. No binding. Fine. Autograph Letter Signed to Frank H. Pierce, his nephew. Concord, N.H., September 6, 1866. 2 pp. Former President Franklin Pierce worries that young Frank Pierce - like most undergraduates - is occupying himself with things other than his studies at Princeton. Partial Transcript""The letter which I received from you soon after your examination at Princeton led me to expect another soon but none has been received. I hope you are not ill again. Kirk returned to resume his studies at the commercial College last week. My health is apparently firm again. Is your room satisfactorily furnished and are your studies and other matters going smoothly with you. If you find yourself better fitted than most of your class, which your advantages would lead me to expect, do not for a day relax your labor, but make but make [sic] the most of it. Write me.""Historical BackgroundThe political reputation of Pierce was fatally damaged by his defense of slavery, his refusal to concede… Read More

This copy is stamped "THE PRESIDENT" at the top of the front page, indicating it belonged to President Andrew Johnson. The President would have read this copy of the act before Congress submitted it to him with some amendments on July 25. The report uses the early variant spelling of "Aliaska" for the territory and peninsula. [ALASKA].
Newspaper. New-York Tribune, July 17, 1868. Featuring the terms of the "Aliaska" Bill as passed by the Senate. Copy belonging to President Andrew Johnson. New York: Horace Greeley. 8 pp., 18 x 23¾ in.
Excerpts:

"Be it enacted, &c. That the laws of the United States relating to customs, commerce and navigation be, and the same are hereby extended to and over all the mainland, islands and waters of the territory ceded to the United States by the Emperor of Russia...." (p1/c2)

"And be it further enacted, that all the said territory, with its ports, harbors, bays, rivers and waters, shall constitute a customs collection district, to be called 'The District… Read More

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
Partially Printed Document Signed, Appointment of Harry H. Woodring as Secretary of War, May 7, 1937. Co-signed by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. 1 p., 22.75 x 18.5 in.
Historical Background

After serving for three years as the Assistant Secretary of War, Woodring took office in September 1936, a month after his predecessor George Dern's death in office. As Secretary of War, Woodring continued Dern's recommendations for increasing the strength of the Regular Army, the National Guard, and the Reserve Corps. However, Woodring was also a strict non-interventionist, which put him increasingly at odds with Roosevelt's cabinet. They placed increasing pressure on Woodring to resign and on Roosevelt to fire him. Instead, Roosevelt appointed interventionist Louis A. Johnson as Assistant Secretary of War. Woodring and Johnson immediately clashed and came to the point where they no longer spoke to each other. On June 20, 1940, Roosevelt fired Woodring and replaced him… Read More

Assistant Adjutant General Seth Williams writes to Provost Marshal M. R. Patrick that he will ask Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant to establish regulations to govern political agents in the camps prior to the 1864 elections. SETH WILLIAMS.
Manuscript Letter Signed, to Marsena R. Patrick, October 4, 1864. 1 p.
Complete Transcript

Head-Quarters, Army of the Potomac,/ October 4th 1864.

Brigadier General M. R. Patrick

Provost Marshal General,

General,

Your note of this date enclosing a pass given by the Assistant Secretary of War to Mr William Henry, will be referred to Lieut. General Grant with the request that some regulations may be established to govern in the cases of the Agents that may visit this Army in connection with the approaching elections.

As Mr Henry has the pass of the Asst Secretary of War the same must be respected and Mr Henry has accordingly been authorized to proceed through the Army.… Read More

Contrasting with the agrarian view of many Virginia founding fathers, New Yorker Alexander Hamilton saw an industrial future for the United States. After nearly two years of study and with the aid of Assistant Secretary Tench Coxe, Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton compiled his famed Report on Manufactures at the request of Congress. With the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, Coxe and Hamilton advocate creating the nation's first public-private partnership to develop the area around the Great Falls of the Passaic River, using the cataract for power. [ALEXANDER HAMILTON].
Newspaper. Gazette of the United States, September 10, 1791. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John Fenno. 4 pp., 10 x 16 in. The prospectus is printed on the front page in three columns.
Historical Background

The Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (S.U.M.) was a public-private partnership to industrialize the area around the Great Falls of the Passaic River. By utilizing the falls' water power,… Read More