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On The Legal Rights And Responsibilities Of The Deaf And Dumb, Harvey Prindle Peet Dec 1855

On The Legal Rights And Responsibilities Of The Deaf And Dumb, Harvey Prindle Peet

Deaf Rare Books

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Speech Of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, Of Georgia, On The Bill To Admit Kansas As A State, Alexander H. Stephens Dec 1855

Speech Of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, Of Georgia, On The Bill To Admit Kansas As A State, Alexander H. Stephens

Pamphlet Collection

Full title: Speech of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, on the bill to admit Kansas as a state under the Topeka Constitution : delivered in the House of Representatives, June 28, 1856

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Admission Of Kansas, Galusha A. Grow Dec 1855

Admission Of Kansas, Galusha A. Grow

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Full title: Admission of Kansas : speech of Hon. G.A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Representatives, June 30, 1856

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Speech Of William H. Seward On The Army Bill, William H. Seward Dec 1855

Speech Of William H. Seward On The Army Bill, William H. Seward

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Full title: The army of the United States not to be employed as a police to enforce the laws of the conquerors of Kansas. Speech of William H. Seward on the Army Bill in the Senate of the United States, August 7, 1853

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The Crime Against Kansas, Charles Sumner Dec 1855

The Crime Against Kansas, Charles Sumner

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Full title: The crime against Kansas. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts. In the Senate of the United States, May 19, 1856

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The Massachusetts Resolutions On The Sumner Assault, And The Slavery Issue, Andrew Pickens Butler Dec 1855

The Massachusetts Resolutions On The Sumner Assault, And The Slavery Issue, Andrew Pickens Butler

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Full title: The Massachusetts resolutions on the Sumner assault and the slavery issue. Speeches of Senators Butler, Evans, and Hunter, delivered in the Senate of the United States

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Oration, By William H. Seward, At Plymouth, William H. Seward Dec 1855

Oration, By William H. Seward, At Plymouth, William H. Seward

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William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States Senator.

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Memorial Of The Senators And Representatives And The Constitution Of The State Of Kansas Dec 1855

Memorial Of The Senators And Representatives And The Constitution Of The State Of Kansas

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Full title: Memorial of the senators and representatives and the Constitution of the State of Kansas; also, the majority and minority reports of the Committee on Territories on the said Constitution

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Slavery Question, Edward Wade Dec 1855

Slavery Question, Edward Wade

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Full title: Slavery question. Speech of Hon. Edward Wade, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, August 2, 1856

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Temptation, Or, The Irish Emigrant, John Brougham Dec 1855

Temptation, Or, The Irish Emigrant, John Brougham

Irish Studies Publications

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The Crime Against Kansas: The Apologies For The Crime; The True Remedy. Speech Of Hon. Charles Sumner. In The Senate Of The United States,19th And 20th..., Charles Sumner Dec 1855

The Crime Against Kansas: The Apologies For The Crime; The True Remedy. Speech Of Hon. Charles Sumner. In The Senate Of The United States,19th And 20th..., Charles Sumner

Civil War Text

Loose title page and introduction page of the book: "The Crime Against Kansas: The Apologies for the Crime; The True Remedy. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner. In the Senate of the United States, 19th and 20th, May, 1856." The introduction page, however, is covered by a clipped article: "Letter of the Hon. Edward Bates of Missouri."

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Household Words, Vol. 14-19 (Part 1), Charles Dickens Dec 1855

Household Words, Vol. 14-19 (Part 1), Charles Dickens

Household Words, 1850-1859

Household Words, taking its name from a line William Shakespeare's Henry V ("Familiar in his mouth as household words"), was a weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens running from 1850-1859. The serial featured fiction and non-fiction, including excerpts of Dickens' novel Hard Times. Its non-fiction components focused on the plight of the working classes and other social issues.

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The Young Folks At Home, J. C. Viereck Dec 1855

The Young Folks At Home, J. C. Viereck

Black American Sheet Music Collection

Grand March by J. C. Viereck. Arranged for the piano.

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Happy Haidee, Thomas Coates, Marshall S. Pike Dec 1855

Happy Haidee, Thomas Coates, Marshall S. Pike

Black American Sheet Music Collection

Dedicated to Mrs. John B. Donniker of New York. As originally sung by J. Murphy of Christy's Minstrels.

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Hark! I Hear An Angel Sing, A, R. G. Shrival, W. C. B. Dec 1855

Hark! I Hear An Angel Sing, A, R. G. Shrival, W. C. B.

Black American Sheet Music Collection

Ballad as sung by Mr. John Farrenberg of West. Peels & Campbell Minstrels. Composed and respectfully dedicated to Mrs. James Gardner Jr. of Augusta, GA.

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Hark! I Hear An Angel Sing, B, R. G. Shrival, W. C. B. Dec 1855

Hark! I Hear An Angel Sing, B, R. G. Shrival, W. C. B.

Black American Sheet Music Collection

Ballad as sung by Mr. John Farrenberg of West. Peels & Campbell Minstrels. Composed and respectfully dedicated to Mrs. James Gardner Jr. of Augusta, GA.

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The Phantom Act 1, Dion Boucicault Dec 1855

The Phantom Act 1, Dion Boucicault

The Phantom

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The "Traveling & Begging Guide" Prepared For A. C. Van Raalte, John Van Vleck Dec 1855

The "Traveling & Begging Guide" Prepared For A. C. Van Raalte, John Van Vleck

Van Raalte Papers: 1850-1859

The "Traveling & Begging Guide" prepared for A. C. Van Raalte when he went on a fund raising trip to New York and New Jersey for the Academy building, later called Van Vleck Hall. He is given clear directions as to where he must travel and whom he should visit. The writer of the guide is not identified. However, judging from a September 1, 1856, letter of John Van Vleck to A.C.V.R., the handwriting of Van Vleck is very similar to the handwriting of this document. A letter of introduction to prospective donors by Dr. Thomas De Witt is appended …

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Kissing Through The Bars, Joseph Wood Jr. Dec 1855

Kissing Through The Bars, Joseph Wood Jr.

Sheet Music Collection

Guy and girl kissing through the bars of a gate

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Kenyon Collegian - January 1856 Dec 1855

Kenyon Collegian - January 1856

The Kenyon Collegian

Mollia Tempora Fandi, 1; Songs for the Lyre, 3; Toadiana A Defence of the Batrachians, 5; Thomas Chatterton, 12; The March of Mind, 13; Sponsor Death, 18; Andre and Hale, 22; Energy of Character, 24; Memorabilia Kenyonensia: Letter from the "Bull's Eye," 25; Editors' Table, 27

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