Kansas investigation, 1856
Tag Archives: Colonies & territories
Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the second session of the Thirty-fifth Congress.
State of the Union address, 1858
Remonstrance of Sarah Chapman and 3,028 other women, of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, against the annexation of Texas to the United States, as a slave-holding territory.
Memorial of women of Boston, Massachusetts, against annexation of Texas as slave-holding Territory, 1837
Message from the President of the United States, to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-fifth Congress.
State of the Union address, 1857
Population of the United States in 1860; compiled from the original returns of the Eighth Census, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by Joseph C. G. Kennedy, Superintendent of Census.
8th Census of United States, 1860, Population, 1864
Inaugural address of the President of the United States, on the fourth of March, 1861.
Inaugural address of President Lincoln, March 4, 1861 [at end of volume], 1861
Resolutions of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to the admission of slave territory.
Resolutions of legislature of Indiana on admission of slave territory, 1850
Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolutions of the Senate of the 16th and 18th instants, correspondence between the executive department and the present Governor of Kansas, and between the executive and any governor or other officer of the government in Kansas, with any orders or instructions which may have been issued, together with other information relative to affairs in that territory.
Presidential message communicating correspondence between executive department and Kansas, 1857
Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Maine, in favor of repealing the laws of states or territories which render persons of color liable to arrest and imprisonment and to be sold for jail fees.
Legislature of Maine, for repealing laws of States or Territories rendering persons of color liable to arrest and imprisonment, and to be sold for jail fees, 1843
Resolution of the Legislature of Michigan, relative to the extension of slavery.
Resolution of legislature of Michigan on extension of slavery, 1858
Slavery in the Territory of New Mexico. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 64.)
Slavery in Territory of New Mexico, 1860
Resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois, in favor of the exclusion of slavery from the Territories acquired from Mexico.
Legislature of Illinois, for exclusion of slavery from territories acquired from Mexico, 1849
Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the prohibition of slavery within any territory of the United States now or hereafter to be acquired.
Legislature of Michigan, for prohibition of slavery within any territory now or hereafter to be acquired, 1849
Extension of slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, relative to the extension of slavery in any territory that may be annexed to the United States.
Legislature of New Jersey for exclusion of slavery in territory to be annexed, 1847
Resolutions of the General Assembly of Missouri, relative to the subject of slavery in the organization of new territories or states out of territory now belonging to, or hereafter to be acquired by, the United States.
Resolutions of legislature of Missouri on slavery in organization of new Territories or States, 1847
[Motion on powers of Congress over slavery in States and Territories, and on conquest]
Motion on powers of Congress over slavery in States and Territories, and on conquest, 1848
[Motion on power of people and legislatures of Territories to exclude slavery]
Motion on power of people and legislatures of Territories to exclude slavery, 1848
[Motion on exclusion of slavery from territory to be acquired from Mexico]
Motion on exclusion of slavery from territory to be acquired from Mexico, 1848
Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio, in favor of the prohibition of slavery in Territories of the United States, and the immediate admission of Kansas into the Union as a state.
Resolutions of legislature of Ohio for prohibition of slavery in Territories and admission of Kansas as State, 1856
Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, relative to the extension of slavery, to slavery in the Territory of Kansas, to the admission of Kansas into the Union as a state, and secret oath-bound political associations.
Resolutions of legislature of Maine, against extension of slavery, slavery in Territory of Kansas, admission of Kansas into Union, and secret oath-bound political associations, 1856
Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan respecting slavery.
Resolutions of legislature of Michigan on repeal of compromise measures; against extension of slavery into territory of United States; for abolition of slavery and slave trade in Territories and in District of Columbia; and instructing senators and representatives to procure passage of law to prohibit slavery in Kansas and Nebraska and repeal of fugitive slave law, 1855
Resolution of the Legislature of New Hampshire, relative to the territory acquired by the Mexican War and the introduction of slavery therein.
Resolutions of legislature of New Hampshire on slavery in territories acquired from Mexico, 1849
[No title] Motion for adjustment of questions of slavery, etc., in territories acquired from Mexico, and of boundary of Texas
Motion for adjustment of questions of slavery, etc., in territories acquired from Mexico, and of boundary of Texas, 1850
Resolutions of the Legislature of North Carolina, relative to slavery in the territories.
Resolutions of legislature of North Carolina, on slavery in Territories, 1849
[No title] Resolutions proposing adjustment of question of slavery in territories lately acquired from Mexico, and Texas boundary
Resolutions proposing adjustment of question of slavery in territories lately acquired from Mexico, and Texas boundary, 1850