James Harlan (August 26, 1820 - October 5, 1899) was an attorney and politician, a member of the United States Senate, a U.S. Cabinet Secretary at the United States Department of Interior under President Andrew Johnson, and a Federal Judge.
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Speech by Iowa senator in defense of President Lincoln's action in raising an army when the Southern confederacy made war upon the United States.
American convention for promoting the abolition of slavery and improving the condition of the African race at Philadelphia, in October, 1819, to the people of the United States
The life of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin / written by himself ; together with a number of his humorous, moral, and literary essays, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator
Memoirs of Martha Laurens Ramsay, who died in Charleston, S.C., on the tenth of June, 1811, in the fifty-second year of her age : with extracts from her diary, letters, and other private papers, and also from letters written to her, by her father, Henry Laurens, 1771-1776
"A member of a distinguished South Carolina family, Martha Laurens Ramsay was one of few eighteenth-century Southern women whose written records provide a window into her life, her experiences, convictions, and ambivalences during the crucial epoch of the nation's founding decades. Ramsay's spiritual diary and correspondence reveal her views on patriotism, daughterly duty, household management, wifely affection, motherly aspiration, and personal autonomy." [from WorldCat.org]
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 30.
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The article focuses on a letter from Edward Shippen lll to his son, Edward Shippen lV (who would later become the Chief Justice of Pennsylvania). The letter contains advice on how to live a good and productive life both in business and family life.
