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...
92 Waters Avenue,
West New Brighton, N.Y.
November 13, 1911.
My dear Carr:
I sent you a check this morning to help spread the Episcopal Special. I had no power to make it less. Your Episcopal number is a strong voice from the blood-stained top of...
May 22, 1912.
Mr. Edwin Markham,
West New Brighton, S.I.
Dear Friend,
The Socialist Press Club is making its initial attempt to cooperate with the Socialist press. To that end the club is getting together material for a special Sunday supplement...
June 19, 1912.
My Dear Mr. Markham:-
One of our members having suggested that you are interested in what we are doing, I trust that this, together with our particular desire to enroll you among our members, will serve as sufficient warrant for this...
March Eleven Nineteen Fifteen
Mr. Edwin Markham,
West New Brighton, N.Y.
CONFIDENTIAL
Dear Mr. Markham:-
Your opinion as a literary man would be very welcome to me on an educational matter which I have evolved. It is needless to say Mr. Markham,...
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...
New-York African Free-School; American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race; Abolitionists--New York (State)--New York--Societies, etc.; African Americans--Education--New York...
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, commonly known as the New-York Manumission Society, was established 1785 to publicly promote the abolition of slavery and manumission of slaves in New York State. The society, which was...
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.
A WOR radio broadcast discussing the efforts of the Bronx County Civic Assn. in sponsoring and subsidizing the cost of bowling so that young adults in the Bronx could enjoy this activity.
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Athol; Texas. Constitution (1845); Antislavery movements--United States
Two-page letter dated November 19, 1845, from Lysander Spooner in Athol [Massachusetts] to [George] Bradburn. Includes manuscript copy of a letter from J. [James] Fulton, Jr. to Bradburn discussing "Anti-Texas efforts" in Washington, D. C. and the...
Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Four-page letter dated June 15, 1853, from Geo. [George] Bradburn in Cleveland [Ohio] to [Lysander] Spooner, discussing his fundraising efforts to support the operation of his paper [possibly the True Democrat] and other abolitionist news.
Four-page letter dated September 17, 1854, from D. McF. [Daniel McFarland] in Sauk City [Wisconsin] to Lysander Spooner [probably in Boston, Massachusetts], describing his circumstances in Wisconsin, and his plans to move further West.
Antislavery movements--United States; American Abolition Society; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Eight-page letter and envelope from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated September 10, 1857, in which he encourages Smith to put forward a motion at the American Abolition Society annual meeting in Syracuse to purchase...
Envelope and eight-page manuscript copy of a letter from Gerrit Smith Peterboro [New York] to John Cochrane dated July 20, 1860, discussing Smith's libel suit against Royal Phelps and others.
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...
