American historical and literary curiosities : consisting of fac-similes of original documents relating to the events of the revolution, &c. &c. with a variety of reliques, antiquities, and modern autographs
Alta California : embracing notices of the climate, soil, and agricultural products of northern Mexico and the Pacific seaboard : also, a history of the military and naval operations of the United States directed against the territories of northern Mexico, in the year 1846-'47 : with documents declaratory of the policy of the present administration of the national government in regard to the annexation of conquered territory to this union, and the opinion of the Hon. James Buchanan on the Wilmot Proviso, &c
Description of area: p. 9-12; history and documentation: p. 13-64.
Anti-annexation tract.
Summary
The 1847 publication briefly address climate soil and agriculture in Alta and Baja California in chapter I. The following eight chapters consist of communications from the U.S. Government consisting of instructions in the event Mexico declared war, justification of and motives for war, various reports to Washington, communications with Mexican officials in Alta California, accounts of the military operations in California, the articles of capitulation entered into at Rancho of Cowanga on January 13, 1847, all of which are interspersed with personal observations and comments by the author. The final chapter deals with the question of whether slavery would be allowed in California, the policy of the South and its motive for a slave market and emigrants to California and Northern Mexico [from California State University's Digital Commons]
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society ; v. 92, no. 2 (May 5, 1948)
Contents
B. Franklin, printer / William E. Lingelbach--Dr. Franklin negotiates, December 1777 / Gilbert Chinard--Charles Willson Peale's career as a painter / Charles Coleman Sellers--Henry Ernest Muhlenberg / Paul A. W. Wallace--Collecting source material about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon / Thomas D. Cope.
A refutation of Andrew Stewart's fabrication against General Lewis Cass : a gross misrepresentation of the public documents, by Andrew Stewart and the Whig Central Committee at Washington, exposed
Gen. Cass's extra pay, $64,865.46--General Taylor not one cent: proved by documents, officially certified and appended. Speech of Hon. Andrew Stewart, of Penn., delivered in the House of Representatives, U.S., August 3, 1848
