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Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress : at the commencement of the second session of the thirty-sixth Congress

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo16196
Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Date of Publication
1860.
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860 36th 2nd
Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
G.W. Bowman, printer,
Date of Publication
1860.
Physical Description
v. ; 23 cm.
Series
36th Cong., 2d Sess. House of Representatives. Ex. doc.
Notes
Includes reports of heads of departments.
On spine: Message and documents, 1860-1861 part 1.
Library has: v. 1.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860 36th 2nd
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Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the thirty-sixth Congress

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Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Date of Publication
1860.
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860 36th, 1st
Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Place of Publication
Washington, [D.C.]
Publisher
George W. Bowman, printer,
Date of Publication
1860.
Physical Description
v. ; 23 cm.
Series
36th Congress. 1st session. Senate Ex. Doc ; no. 2
Notes
Library has Vol. 1 only.
Contents
v. 1. Annual message of the President ; Report of the Secretary of the Interior ; Report of the Secretary of War ; Report of the Secretary of the Navy ; Report of the Postmaster-General -- v. 2. Report of the Secretary of War --
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Presidents - United States - Messages.
Political science.
Presidents.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861 - Sources.
United States - History - 1849-1877 - Sources.
United States.
History.
Sources.
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Department of the Interior.
United States. War Department.
United States. Navy Department.
United States. Postmaster General.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860 36th, 1st
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Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress at the commencement of the first session of the thirty fifth congress

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Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Date of Publication
1857.
Call Number
923.173 B918 1857 v.2
Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Place of Publication
Washington
Publisher
Cornelius Wendell, Printer,
Date of Publication
1857.
Physical Description
572 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Ex. doc. / House of Representatives, 35th Congress, 1st session ; no. 943
Notes
Entire volume is dedicated to Report of the Secretary of War, 1857.
Includes accompanying documents and reports.
Library has Vol. II
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Utah Expedition, 1857-1858.
United States - Politics and government - 1849-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
923.173 B918 1857 v.2
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Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress at the commencement of the first session of the thirty-sixth Congress

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Corporate Author
United States. : President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Date of Publication
1860.
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860a
Corporate Author
United States. : President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Place of Publication
Washington [D.C.]
Publisher
George W. Bowman, Printer,
Date of Publication
1860.
Physical Description
918 p. ; 24 cm.
Series
36th Congress, 1st session. Senate. Ex. doc. ; no. 2
Notes
Also issued at v. 1 of United States. Congress (36th, lst session). Senate. Executive documents (15 vols.)
Spine title: Senate Documents, 1st session, 36th Congress.
Message is accompanied by Report of the Secretary of the Interior (p. [91]-918).
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
923.173 B918 1860a
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America; : being the second session of the Second Congress, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, November 5th, 1792, and in the seventeenth year of the sovereignty of the said United States

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Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Date of Publication
MDCCXCII [i.e. 1793].
Call Number
Book 841 1792
  1 website  
Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by John Fenno, in Fifth-Street.,
Date of Publication
MDCCXCII [i.e. 1793].
Physical Description
100 p. ; 33 cm (fol.)
Notes
Second Congress, 2nd Session: from 5 November 1792 to 2 March 1793.
Speech of President Washington to Congress, Nov. 6, 1792: p. 5-9.
Signed on p. 89: Samuel A. Otis, secretary [of the Senate].
Signatures: [A]² B-2B².
Appendix: Titles of the acts passed at the second session of the Second Congress of the United States, begun and held at Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the 5th day of November 1792. -- Bills originated during the session, but were either rejected or postponed. -- The classes of the Senators of the United States, on the 4th day of March 1793.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 841 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes index: pages 93-100.
English short title catalogue,
Evans, C. American bibliography,
Subjects
United States. - Congress. - Senate - Periodicals.
United States. - Congress. - Senate.
Constitutions - United States.
Constitutional law - United States.
Legislation - United States - Periodicals.
Constitutional law.
Constitutions.
Legislation.
Politics and government.
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1797 - Sources.
United States - History - Constitutional period, 1789-1809 - Sources.
United States.
History.
Periodicals.
Sources.
Half leather on boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Otis, Samuel Allyne,
Fenno, John,
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington)
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 841 1792
Websites
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Visitation of American vessels by officers of the British navy : message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives calling for information in reference to reported acts of visitation by officers of the British navy of American vessels in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico

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Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Date of Publication
1858]
Call Number
923.173 B918 1858 Oversize
Alternate Title
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives calling for information in reference to reported acts of visitation by officers of the British navy of American vessels in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Corporate Author
United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)
Place of Publication
[Washington? D.C
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1858]
Physical Description
16 p.
Series
Doc. / 35th Congress, 2d session, House of Representatives. Ex. Doc ; no. 11.
Notes
Caption title.
"December 16, 1858. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and orderd to be printed."
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
United States - Foreign relations, - 1857-1861.
United States - Foreign relations - United Kingdom..
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
923.173 B918 1858 Oversize
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Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, being the second session of the Third Congress, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia November 3d, 1794. And in the nineteenth year of the sovereignty of the said United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22045
Corporate Author
United States. Congress. Senate.
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XCIV [1794]
Call Number
Book 843 1794
Corporate Author
United States. Congress. Senate.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by John Fenno, printer to the Senate of the United States.
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XCIV [1794]
Physical Description
114, [11] pages 33 cm
Notes
3d Cong., 2d sess., Nov. 3, 1794 to March 3, 1795.
Speech of President Washington to Congress, Nov. 19, 1794: p. 6-12.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page under that of J. W. Nitton also on second flyleaf.
Book number 843 as assigned by Yeates.
Greely,
Subjects
Legislative journals - United States.
Legislative journals.
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1809.
United States.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington)
United States. Congress Senate.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 843 1794
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Journal of the House of representatives of the United States, at the first session of the Second Congress. ; Anno M,DCC,XCI, and of the independence of the United States the sixteenth

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Corporate Author
United States. Congress House.
Date of Publication
MDCCXCII. [1792]
Call Number
Book 851 1792
Corporate Author
United States. Congress House.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine,
Date of Publication
MDCCXCII. [1792]
Physical Description
245 p. 34 cm (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: [A]ø B-3Qø (A1 blank; 3Q2 verso blank).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 851 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes index: p. [223]-245.
English short title catalogue,
Evans, C. American bibliography,
Subjects
United States. - Congress. - House - Periodicals.
Constitutions - United States.
Constitutional law - United States.
Legislation - United States
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1797.
United States - History - Constitutional period, 1789-1809.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding).
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
Francis Childs and John Swaine (Firm)
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 851 1792
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James Buchanan : fifteenth president of the United States

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Author
Brill, Marlene Targ.
Date of Publication
c1988.
Call Number
923.173 B918br
Responsibility
by Marlene Targ Brill.
ISBN
0516013580
9780516013589
Author
Brill, Marlene Targ.
Place of Publication
Chicago
Publisher
Childrens Press,
Date of Publication
c1988.
Physical Description
98 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
Encyclopedia of presidents
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
Describes the early life and political career of the man who served as president in the years just before the Civil War.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Presidents - United States - Biography - Juvenile literature.
Presidents.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861 - Juvenile literature.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 B918br
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States, at the third session of the Fifth Congress, and of the independence of the United States the twenty-third

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Corporate Author
United States. Congress House.
Date of Publication
1798 [i.e. 1799]
Call Number
Book 859 1798
Corporate Author
United States. Congress House.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by W. Ross ...,
Date of Publication
1798 [i.e. 1799]
Physical Description
266, [26] p. ; 24 cm. (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-U⁴ ²U⁴ X-2M⁴ 2N² (last leaf blank).
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 859 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Subjects
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - 1783-1809.
United States.
Three quarters leather on boards (Binding)
Gilt spine label on maroon spind label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 859 1798
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Journal of the second session of the Senate of the United States of America : begun and held at the city of New-York, January 4th, 1790; and in the fourteenth year of the independence of the said states

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Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Date of Publication
M, DCC, XC [1790]
Call Number
Book 538 1790
Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Place of Publication
New-York
Publisher
Printed by John Fenno, in Maiden-Lane,
Date of Publication
M, DCC, XC [1790]
Physical Description
224 pages ; 34 cm (fol.)
Notes
1st Cong., 2d sess., Jan. 4 to Aug. 12, 1790.
P. 222-224 wrongly numbered 122-124 in some copies.
Errata statement, p. 224.
Signatures: [A]² B-3K².
Speech of President Washington to Congress, Jan. 8, 1790: p. 5-8.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 835 as assigned by Yeates.
"Acts and resolutions passed the second session of the Congress of the United States": pages 222-224.
Evans,
ESTC,
Subjects
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1797 - Sources.
United States - History - Sources.
United States.
History.
Sources.
Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington)
Place
United States New York New York.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 538 1790
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Worst. President. Ever. : James Buchanan, the POTUS rating game, and the legacy of the least of the lesser presidents

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Author
Strauss, Robert,
Date of Publication
2016.
Call Number
923.173 B918str
Responsibility
Robert Strauss.
ISBN
9781493024834
1493024833
Author
Strauss, Robert,
Place of Publication
Guilford, Connecticut
Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield,
Date of Publication
2016.
Physical Description
xiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introducing the worst. President. Ever -- The Young Buck -- Up from Lancaster -- The man who would be president, again and again -- The election of 1856: the most consequential in American history -- The worst presidency begins -- The middle Buchanan presidency: hardly better -- Mr. Buchanan's War -- The legacy of the least of the lesser presidents.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Presidents - United States - Biography.
Politics and government.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
United States.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.173 B918str
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President Pierce's ministers at the Court of S. James

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Author
Donovan, Theresa A.

Journal // of the third session of the // Senate // of the // United States of America, // began and held // at the // city of Philadelphia // December 6th, 1790. // And // in the fifteenth year of the // sovereignty of the said United States

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22041
Corporate Author
United States. Congress. Senate.
Date of Publication
// 1791.
Call Number
Book 839 1791
Corporate Author
United States. Congress. Senate.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by John Fenno ...
Date of Publication
// 1791.
Physical Description
203 pages 32 cm
Notes
1st Cong., 3d sess., Dec. 6, 1790 to March 3, 1791.
Speech of President Washington to Congress, Dec. 8, 1790: p.6-9.
Appendix: Titles of the acts and resolves passed the third session of Congress--Sundry acts approved, but not entered in course when the bills // were first read in the Senate.--Appropriation of ten thousand dollars, for the purpose of defraying the contingent charges of government, by act of 26th March, 1790.--The classes of the senators of the United States, during the First Congress.--Ratification of the articles of amendment to the Constitution ...
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 839 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Washington, George, - 1732-1799.
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government.
United States - History - Sources.
United States.
History.
Sources.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Book 839 1791
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A Digest of the laws of the United States of America : being a complete system, (alphabetically arranged) of all the public acts of Congress now in force-from the commencement of the federal government, to the end of the third session of the Fifth Congress, which terminated in March 1799, inclusive

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21031
Date of Publication
1800.
Call Number
Book 240 1802
Book 239 1800
Responsibility
by Thomas Herty.
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Printed for the editor, by W. Pechin,
Date of Publication
1800.
Physical Description
2 volumes ; 21 cm
Notes
Vol. 2: To the end of the first session of the Seventh Congress, which terminated in May, 1802, inclusive.
Vol. 2 has imprint: Washington City : Printed at the Apollo Press, for the editor, by W. Duane and Son, 1802.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 239 amd 240 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Law - United States - Digests.
Law.
United States.
Digests.
volume 1 Full leather (Binding).
volume 2: Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Herty, Thomas.
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Lancaster History Archive - Government Record
Call Number
Book 240 1802
Book 239 1800
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The Congressional Glove : containing the debates and proceedings of the second session of the thirty-fifth Congress also of the special session of the senate / by John C. Rives

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Author
Rives, John C.
Date of Publication
1859.
Call Number
328.7302 W317 1859 Oversize
Author
Rives, John C.
Place of Publication
City of Washington
Date of Publication
1859.
Physical Description
xliv, 1042-1692; iii-xii; 1-364 p. 30 cm.
Dates of Publication
February 17, 1859 - March 11, 1859.
Notes
Includes index.
Estate of Simon Cameron.
Subjects
Political Science.
United States - Politics and government.
United States.
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
328.7302 W317 1859 Oversize
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Journal of the first session of the Senate of the United States of America : begun and held at the city of New-York, March 4th, 1789, and the thirteenth year of the independence of the said states

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22020
Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Date of Publication
--M, DCC, LXXX, IX.-- [1789]
Call Number
Bookk 837 1789
Corporate Author
United States. Congress Senate.
Place of Publication
New-York
Publisher
Printed by Thomas Greenleaf,
Date of Publication
--M, DCC, LXXX, IX.-- [1789]
Physical Description
172 pages ; 34 cm (fol.)
Notes
Signatures: [A]² B-2U².
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 837 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Subjects
1789.
Politics and government
United States - Politics and government - 1789-1809.
New York (N.Y.) - Imprints (Thomas Greenleaf)
United States.
Labels (Provenance)
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
No spine label (Binding)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington)
United States. Congress. Senate.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Bookk 837 1789
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Acts passed at the first [-third] session of the fifth Congress of the United States of America : begun and held at the city of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday the fifteenth of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven : and of the independence of the United States, the twenty-first : published by authority

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21033
Corporate Author
United States.
Date of Publication
1797.
Call Number
Boook 244 1797
Alternate Title
Laws of the United States
Corporate Author
United States.
Uniform Title
Laws, etc. (Session laws : 1797-1799)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Printed by William Ross ...,
Date of Publication
1797.
Physical Description
240, vii, [4], 244-561, [1], 26, iv, [48] pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Notes
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2G⁴ [2H]⁴ 2I-4M⁴.
Printed marginalia.
Includes treaties.
Includes index.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 244 as assigned by Yeates.
Subjects
Session laws - United States - Early works to 1800.
Diplomatic relations.
Session laws.
United States - Foreign relations - Early works to 1800.
United States.
Early works.
Full blind-tooled leather (Binding)
Gilt title on maroon spine label (Bindingn)
Additional Author
Yeates, Jasper,Ud1745-1817,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Congress
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection
Call Number
Boook 244 1797
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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

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15731
Edition
Extended to the present time, and reprinted Nov. 1847.
Date of Publication
1847.
Call Number
815 P769 # 40
Edition
Extended to the present time, and reprinted Nov. 1847.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia [Pa.]
Publisher
Times and Keystone Job Office,
Date of Publication
1847.
Physical Description
20 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Cover title: Life of George M. Dallas, vice president of the United States.
In: Political Speeches.
Subjects
Dallas, George Mifflin, - 1792-1864.
United States. - Congress. - Senate - Biography.
Vice-Presidents - United States - Biography.
Legislators - United States - Biography.
United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.
Philadelphia (Pa.) - Biography.
Additional Author
Kane, John K.
Additional Corporate Author
Democratic Party (U.S.). Committee of Publication.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
815 P769 # 40
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The state of the country : speech of William H. Seward in the United States Senate, February 29, 1860

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11242
Author
Seward, William Henry,
Date of Publication
1860?]
Call Number
973.891 B628
Author
Seward, William Henry,
Place of Publication
[S.l
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1860?]
Physical Description
8 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Caption title.
Subjects
Slavery - United States
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
973.891 B628
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