Feb’y 23rd, 1912.
Dear Comrade:
In response to many requests for publication we have now on the press Comrade William A. Prosser’s Open Letter and Challenge to Mr. Raymond Robins in answer to his attack on Socialism, as published in the...
Erie Canal; New York (State); Enlargement; Canal Bill; Loco Foco; Pamphlet
Title page of a sixteen page pamphlet on the Enlargement of the Erie Canal. In 1851, controversy arose regarding the enlargement of the canal. The issue at hand was the constitutionality of the proposed canal bill. This document contains a...
Promotional Materials; Pamphlets; Correspondence; Democratic Party (Kings County, N.Y.); Walker, James John, 1881-1946; Hylan, John Francis, 1868-1936; Hammond, Henry; McCooey, John H.
Pamphlet sent to the 7,500 member Kings County Democratic Committee reprinting two letters outlining the controversy over the Committees' support of James Walker for Mayor.
Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823; Correspondence; Watson, Elkanah, 1758-1842; Troup, Robert, 1757-1832; Route; Construction; New York (State); Erie Canal; Document
Title page from the document of a thirty-eight page letter dated February 8th, 1822 written by Robert Troup with extensive supplements and appendices. Nearing the completion of the construction, a great deal of controversy had emerged over who...
Erie Canal; New York (State); Troy; Canal route; Campbell, Allan, 1815-1894; Commissioners; Committee of the Common Council of the city of Troy; Report Enlargement;Erie Canal; New York (State); Troy; Canal route; Campbell, Allan, 1815-1894;...
Page 34 of a thirty-six page report of the Committee of the Common Council of the city of Troy. This page summarizes and highlights the devastating consequences to Troy if the canal were re-routed to bypass the city.
Erie Canal; New York (State); Enlargement; Canal Bill; Loco Foco; Pamphlet
Page 16 of a sixteen page pamphlet on the Enlargement of the Erie Canal. In 1851, controversy arose regarding the enlargement of the canal. This shows excerpts from various New York newspapers voicing protest against the project to enlarge the Erie...
Livingston, Brockholst, 1757-1823; Correspondence; Watson, Elkanah, 1758-1842; Troup, Robert, 1757-1832; Route; Construction; New York (State); Erie Canal; Document
Pages thirty-four and thirty-five from the document of a thirty-eight page letter dated February 8th, 1822 written by Robert Troup with extensive supplements and appendices. Nearing the completion of the construction of the Erie Canal, a great deal...
Civil rights Religious aspects Catholic Church; Dammann, Grace Cowardin, 1872-1945; Discrimination in education; LaFarge, John, 1880-1963; Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart; Society of the Sacred Heart; Social action
Article from August 1938 Interracial Review discussing integration controversy:
"...But never before had Manhattanville so truly represented the Church than when Mother Dammann, speaking for the College, addressed the Alumni meeting on the subject...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Illinois--Chicago; Antislavery movements--United States
One-page letter dated April 26, 1878, from Wm. [William] Brackett in Chicago [Illinois] to Lysander Spooner [of Boston, Massachusetts], asking for for his opinion on Herbert Spencer's "Unknowable" speech and advisement on the publication of a new...
Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Four-page letter dated April 20, 1853, from Geo. [George] Bradburn in Cleveland [Ohio] to [Lysander] Spooner, in which he discusses Spooner's work, "Trial by Jury" and "the controversy between Horace Mann and Wendell Phillips."
Three-page letter dated April 15, 1853, from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to [George] Bradburn, notifying of the death of Ernest Hidlreth, the youngest child of Richard and Caroline Hildreth, as well as discussing Spooner's...
Three-page letter dated April 23, 1853, from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to [George] Bradburn, discussing the controversy between [Horace] Mann and [Wendell] Phillips and Bradburn's political prospects.
Vigilant Association of the City of New York; Libel and slander--New York (State)--New York
Four-page letter from Gerrit Smith in New York [City] to C. B. Sedgwick dated September 15, 1860, expressing the regret of the "Committee" [of the Vigilant Association of the City of New York] for libel against Smith.
Two-page letter from Gerrit Smith in Peterboro [New York] to Lysander Spooner dated August 31, 1860, in which Smith encourages Spooner to continue giving him legal advice.
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
