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]
Delivered by Redmond Conyngham, at the Lyceum celebration, Fourth of July 1842, at Paradise. With an appendix containing a history of the Piquaws, with a notice of Tanawa, an Indian King of great celebrity. To which is appended anecdotes of William Penn, with the names of the early settlers and dates of settlement.
Bound with An address, &c. recommendations to the states by the United States in Congress assembled. Philadelphia: printed by David C. Claypoole, 1788 -- An examination of the Constitution for the United States of America, submitted to the people fy the General Convention....Philadelphia: Printed by Zacharariah Poulson, Junr...1788 -- Proceedings in the House of Representatives of the United States of America respecting the contested election for the eastern district of Georgia. : Philadelphia, printed by Parry Hall...1792 -- A calm appeal to the people of the State of Delaware. ... Philadelphia: Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junr... date not specified -- An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures. Philadelphia: Printed by Thomas Dobson... 1784; -- A vindication of Mr. Randophs's resignation. Philadelphia: printed by Samuel Smith...1795 -- The pretensions of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency examined; and the charges against John Adams refuted...United States, October 1796 -- Observations on the speech of Albert Gallatin, in the House of Representatives of the United States, on the foreign intercourse bill. Washington: Printed by John Colerick, 1798 -- The speech of Mr. Bayard on the foreign intecourse bill delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States on the third day of March 1798. -- The address of the minority in the Virginia Legislature to the people of that state; containing a vindication of the constitutionality of the alien and sedition laws Printer not specified, date not specified -- Letter from the Secfretary of State enclosing the reports of the late and present director of the mint....Philadelphia: Printed by Francis and Robert Bailey...1795 -- Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, on the answers of sundry states to their resolutions, passed in December, 1798. Philadelphia, printed by James Carey, 1800.
The issue dwarfing all others in the 1848 national elections was the disposition of territory acquired as the result of the Mexican War. Slave and Free states battled to add them to their ranks. Whig campaign pamphlets portrayed their candidate Taylor as anti-slavery in the North and as pro-slavery in the South. His opponent, Democrat Lewis Cass, was portrayed as pro-slavery in the North and anti-slavery in the South. The Democrats proceeded in a like manner. Here, for Northern consumption, Democrats demonstrate Taylor's "Southern face," i.e., his expressed comfort with Southern institutions and opposition to the Wilmot Proviso, barring slavery from the conquered territories.
Geistliches Gewürz-Gärtlein heilsuchender Seelen : oder, kurzgefassten Betrachtungen ueber einige auserlesene Sprüche der heiligen Schrift, in gebundenen Schluss-Reimen und geistlice Prosamen, zur Erweckung, Stärkung und Erquickung, auf das innere Leben gerichtet, von einem Kinde in der Schule Iesu Christi, nebst einem Anhang, bestehend aus geistlichen Lieder und Andachten, aus Licht gegeben
Highwaymen and pirates' own book : containing historical narratives of the most celebrated robbers, pirates, &c., together with an account of the loss of the ship William Brown : and a full description of the mutiny on board the United States' brig Somers, with the execution of Spencer, Cromwell and Small
[pt. I] Life and adventures of ... Joseph Thompson Hare. Awful account of the ... pirate, Alexander Tardy.--[pt. II] Annals of the revolution.--[pt. III] James Moran, executed at Philadelphia ... May 19, 1837. The mutiny on board the brig Braganza. The loss of the ship William Brown. A full account of the mutiny on board the United States brig Somers.
