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]
Cases argued and adjudged, in the Court of King's Bench, at Westminster : in the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th years of the reign of his late Majesty, King George, the Second. [1733-1738] During which time the late Lord chief Justice Hardwicke presided in that court
To which are added, some determinations of the late Lord Chief Justice Lee ; and also two equity ones by Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. Published under the inspection of a noble lord, and eminent lawyer ; with notes and references to all the contemporary reporters. Likewise, two tables ; one of the names of the cases ; and the other of the principal matters therein containe.
Printed by W. Strahan and Woodfall, for W. Johnston and G. Kearsley,
Date of Publication
1770.
Physical Description
8 preliminary leaves, 417, [22] pages ; 32 cm
Notes
Supposed to have been edited by Annaly, and sometimes cited in his name ... In 1815 Thomas Lee edited an edition, with many corrections and improvemets. Since then the citation has been Lee temp. Hard. cf. Soule, Lawyer's reference manual.
Cases argued and adjudged, in the Court of King's Bench, at Westminster : in the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th years of the reign of his late Majesty, King George, the Second. [1733-1738] During which time the late Lord chief Justice Hardwicke presided in that court
To which are added, some determinations of the late Lord Chief Justice Lee ; and also two equity ones by Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. Published under the inspection of a noble lord, and eminent lawyer ; with notes and references to all the contemporary reporters. Likewise, two tables ; one of the names of the cases ; and the other of the principal matters therein containe.
Printed by W. Strahan and Woodfall, for W. Johnston and G. Kearsley,
Date of Publication
1770.
Physical Description
8 preliminary leaves, 417, [22] pages ; 32 cm
Notes
Supposed to have been edited by Annaly, and sometimes cited in his name ... In 1815 Thomas Lee edited an edition, with many corrections and improvemets. Since then the citation has been Lee temp. Hard. cf. Soule, Lawyer's reference manual.
Cases argued and determined, in the High Court of Chancery, in the time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, from the year 1746-7, to 1755. : With tables, notes, and references
A collection of decisions of the Court of King's Bench upon the Poor's Laws : down to the present time. In which are contained many Cases never before published ; extracted from the Notes of a very Eminent Barrister deceased: The whole digested in a regular Order. By a barrister at law of the Inner Temple. To which are prefixed, extracts from the statutes concerning the poor
A digest of adjudged cases in the Court of King's Bench, from the Revolution to the present period, alphabetically arranged under the different heads of practice
Comprehending all the approved determinations during the time that the Lord Chief Justices Holt, Parker, Pratt, Raymond, Hardwicke, Lee, and Ryder, presided on that bench; and also those of the present Lord Chief Justice, by a gentleman of Lincoln's Inn.
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed by W. Strahan, and M. Woodfall, law-printers to the King, for G. Kearsly,
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.
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.
