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
Life of George Mifflin Dallas, vice president of the United States: Prepared and published in Sepember, 1844, by the Democratic Committee of Publication, John K. Kane, et al
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.
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
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 American loyalists; or, Biographical sketches of adherents to the British crown in the war of the revolution; alphabetically arranged; with a preliminary historical essay
The army and navy of America: containing a view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents, and glorious achievements in the cause of freedom, from the period of the French and Indian Wars to the close of the Mexican War; independent of an account of warlike operations on land and sea
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.
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
The United States album embellished with the arms of each state and other appropriate engravings, containing the autographs of the President and Cabinet, Twenty-eighth Congress, Supreme Court, ministers, and other officers of government
[52] blank leaves, [63] leaves of plates (part col.) : coats of arms, facsims., col. ports. ; 26 cm.
Notes
"One hundred pages of the finest writing paper are attached, intended for the insertion of the signatures of the governors, heads of departments, and members of the legislatures of each state..." Cf. Preface.
Includes text of the Constitution of the United States.
Speech of Mr. J. Strohm, of Pennsylvania, on the government expenditures : delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, June 21, 1848
Former Congressman, diplomat, and Secretary of the Treasury, Gallatin examines the annexation of Texas by the United States and the resulting war with Mexico. He believed that the United States's insistence that the Rio Grande River be considered as the Texas boundary was an act of war . He opposed the Mexican War.
The first three volumes of the Colonial records are from the first edition. Their pagination does not correspond to the references from Dunn's "Index to the Colonial Records". Dunn's index refers to the second edition. Patrons can find the second editions of volumes 1-3 online at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010447960. A link to this webpage is near the bottom of this library record. Look for the field "Electronic Location".
Collection of documents, supplemented by the companion series "Pennsylvania archives". (See preliminary reports of the committees, and of the editors, S. Hazard, and the Act providing for the publication, 1837, in Pennsylvania archives, v. 1, p. 1-23, especially p. 7 and 17-23, where the present collection is officially designated as the "Colonial records", a title not used in printing, the volumes having special titles only, as given in "Contents" below).
Errors in paging: nos. 158-167, 499 ommitted, v. 3; nos. 209-224 repeated, v. 16; numerous other errors.
V. 12, minutes of the Supreme executive council from May 21, 1779-July 12, 1781; v. 13, July 13, 1781-Dec. 31, 1783; v. 14, Jan. 1, 1784-Apr. 3, 1786; v. 15, July 4, 1786-Feb. 6, 1789; v. 16, Feb. 7, 1789-Dec. 20, 1790.
Contents
v. 1-10. Minutes of the Provincial council of Pennsylvania, from the organization to the termination of the proprietary government: v. 1, Mar. 10, 1683-Nov. 27, 1700; v. 2, Dec. 18, 1700-May 16, 1717; v. 3, May 31, 1717-Jan. 23, 1735-6: v. 4, Feb. 7, 1735-6-Oct. 15, 1745: v. 5, Dec. 17, 1745-Mar. 20, 1754: v. 6, Apr. 2, 1754-Jan. 29, 1756: v. 7, Jan. 29, 1756-Jan. 11, 1758: v. 8,Jan. 13, 1758-Oct. 4, 1762; v. 9, Oct. 15, 1762-Oct. 17, 1771; v. 10, Oct. 18, 1771-Sept. 27, 1775, with minutes of the Council of safety from June 30, 1775, to Nov. 12, 1776.--v. 11-16. Minutes of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania, from its organization to the termination of the revolution: v. 11, Proceedings of Council of safety, Nov. 13, 1776-Mar. 17 [i.e. 13] 1777, Oct. 17-Dec. 4, 1777; memorandum from Dec. 31, 1776-Mar. 17, 1777; minutes of the Supreme executive council Mar. 4, 1777-May 20, 1779.
