DescriptionArticle from the New Jersey Freeman that talked about the 3-5 ratio in determining population of states. The article says it is a great injustice that five slaves should equal three freeman and thus...
DescriptionArticle from the New Jersey Freeman that expressed one person's feeling about the possible annexation of Texas into the Union as a slave state. The article's writer believed the North should fight...
DescriptionA letter from the Rev. Samuel Blanchard Howe's sister,Anne, that informed Samuel their nephew James Fairbairn was now in Washington and was expecting everyday to be ordered to Richmond.
DescriptionA letter by Joseph Willard to an English correspondent that explained the causes of the Civil War and linked British policy to some of the roots of it.
DescriptionBroadside listing the officers, staff and privates mustered into the Civil War armed services in Trenton, NJ, by Lieut. Ash on September 28, 1863.
DescriptionGen. McClellan, in this public letter, declared his agreement with Judge Woodward's election as Governor of Pennsylvania against Hon. Chas J. Biddle's contrary assertions.
DescriptionArticle in the New Jersey Freeman about the formation of a Libert Party in Virginia, a slave state. The party resolved that they can no longer elect slaveholders and that it was their duty to God to...
DescriptionLetter from Theodore Frelinghuysen, Vice Presidential candidate of the Whig party in 1844 to a Dr. Hall of Mississippi conveying to him that he is not an abolitionist, but a srong supporter of...
DescriptionAdvertisements from a Baltimore paper orginally printed in the Liberty Herald. The advertisements were for rewards to capture fugitive slaves. There is also an add for the Liberty party.
