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]
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
A historical account of Christ Church, Philadelphia : from its foundation, A.D. 1695, to A.D. 1841 : and of St. Peter's and St. James's, until the separation of the churches
Part 2 has special t.p.: Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch, zum allgemeinen Gebrauch des wahren Gottesdienstes ... 1865.
Part 1 includes 62 psalms; part 2 includes 390 hymns plus 3 appendices containing 35, 32 and 14 hymns. Name of melody to be used with each hymn keyed with melody index; melody printed at beginning of hymn for which it is named.
Includes indexes.
From the Collection of the Heritage Center Museum, P99.29.1.
Bookplate attributed to Barbara Ebersol pasted on inside front cover: Vining border is around perimeter with geometric floral motif at each corner; interior is divided into three sections by horizontal bars; top section reads "This book belongs to me, Susanna Herr"; middle section has date of 29 April 1873, and bottom section has a large flower of red, green, brown, and ochre; vining is done in black with green leaves and orange flowers.
From the Collections of the Heritage Society, P00.35.2
Bookplate on second fly leaf is in ploychrone fraktur lettering with scrolled accents and reads: "The Property/ of/ Miss Fianna S. Grube/ Kissel Hill/ Lancaster County, Pa/ 1893; colors include yellow, green, pink and brown. Possibly by J. Doell.
Prepared by Wm. W. Britton, begun 1734, completed May 30, 1935 ;
Date of Publication
1734 - 1935.
Physical Description
4 reels ; 35 mm.
Notes
Microfilmed in 1957. Contains 20 volumes. Lancaster County warrants are on V. 16.
Labeled on box # 257 - # 261.
Material arranged by county and includes names of warrantee, date, acreage, location, date of return, name of patentee, where patent recorded, and where survey is copied.
auf Begehren der Brüderschaft der Mennonisten Gemeinen, aus vielen Liederbüchern gesammelt ; mit einem dreyfachen Register.
Edition
5. verb. Aufl.,
Place of Publication
Lancaster [Pa.]
Publisher
Johann Bär,
Date of Publication
1841.
Physical Description
79, 483, 19 p. : music ; 18 cm.
Notes
Part 2 has special t.p.: Unpartheyisches Gesang-Buch, zum allgemeinen Gebrauch des wahren Gottesdienstes.... 1841.
Part 1 includes 62 psalms; part 2 includes 390 hymns plus 3 appendices containing 35, 32 and 14 hymns. Name of melody to be used with each hymn keyed with melody index; melody printed at beginning of hymn for which it is named.
A history of the original settlements on the Delaware : from its discovery by Hudson to the colonization under William Penn : to which is added an account of the ecclesiastical affairs of the Swedish settlers, and a history of Wilmington, from its first settlement to the present time
Psalms and hymns : adapted to social, private, and public worship in the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America : approved and authorized by the General Assembly
This is an article in the periodical "The United States Magazine and Democratic Review." It was written following Henry Muhlenberg's death in 1844. Henry A. Muhlenberg was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1782. He was an ordained Lutheran minister and served as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Reading, Pennsylvania, from 1803 to 1829. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and was appointed to be the first Minister to the Austrian Empire. He was defeated in an election for Governor of Pennsylvania.Muhlenberg was a member of a powerful dynasty of Muhlenbergs and they also are discussed at length in this article.
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.
