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.
Vol. 2-4 have title: Reports of cases ruled and adjudged in the several courts of the United States, and of Pennsylvania, held at the seat of the federal government.
Also known as: U.S. reports.
Imprint varies.
Includes indexes.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 368b, 369, 270, and 371 as assigned by Yeates.
Forensic eloquence. : Sketches of trials in Ireland for high treason, etc. : Including the speeches of Mr. Curran at length: accompanied by certain papers illustrating the history and present state of that country. : [Two lines in Latin]
"Mr. O'Connor's address to the Irish nation."--Page 323-326.
"To the reader."--Page [327].
"Mr. Grattan's letter to the citizens of Dublin, on his declining to represent them in Parliament."--Page 328-351.
"Erratum"--Page 351.
"In the press, a collection of the most approved speeches and orations selected from English, Scotch, Irish, and American authors. With biographical anecdotes."--Page [352].
Maryland reports, being a series of the most important law cases, argued and determined in the Provincial court and Court of appeals of the then province of Maryland, from the year 1700 [i.e. 1658] down to the [end of 1799] ... Selected from the records of the state, and from notes of some of the most eminent counsel who practised law within that period
Printed and published by I. Riley. For sale by Coale & Thomas, Baltimore; Seymour & Williams, Savannah
Date of Publication
1809-18.
Physical Description
4 volumes 24 cm
Notes
Vols. 2-4 have title: Maryland reports, being a series of the most important law cases argued and determined in the General court and Court of appeals of the state of Maryland ...
Imprint varies: v. 2 New York: Printed by C. Wiley, no. 28 Provost street. 1812.--v. 3. New York: Published by I. Riley, no. 55 Pine-street. 1813.--v. 4. Annapolis: Printed by Jonas Green, printer to the state. 1818.
Library lacks volume 4.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 356, 357 and 358 as assigned by Yeates.
Contents
[I] From the year 1700 (i.e. 1658) down to the American revolution.--[II] From May, 1780, to May, 1790.--III. From October, 1790, to May, 1797.--IV. From May, 1797, to the end of 1799. With an appendix of cases argued and determined in the late Provincial court.
The Washingtoniana: containing a sketch of the life and death of the late Gen. George Washington, with a collection of elegant eulogies, orations, poems, &c., sacred to his memory
History of Lancaster and York Counties : from the earliest settlements made within them; in the former, from 1709; in the latter from 1719, to the present time; to which is prefixed a brief sketch of the early history of Pennsylvania, from A.D., 1681, to the year 1710: with an appendix
"History of York County, from one thousand seven hundred and nineteen to the present time...by I. Daniel Rupp, Lancaster, Pa., G. Hills, 1845": p. [526]--743.
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.
Reply of John Davis, of Massachusetts, to Mr. Buchanan, of Pennsylvania on the reduction of wages and of the value of property : delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 23, 1840. Together with extracts from the speeches of Messrs. Buchanan, Walker, Benton and Calhoun
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]
The memorial and petition of the president and directors of the Chesapeak and Delaware Canal Company, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. January 1, 1806
History and topography of Northumberland, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Centre, Union, Columbia, Juniata and Clinton counties, Pa. : embracing local and general events, leading incidents, description of the principal boroughs, towns, villages, etc., etc. ; with a copious appendix: embellished by engravings
