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Showing posts with label Suffrage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Suffrage. Show all posts
Friday, October 6, 2023

Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes to William Henry Smith, May 23, 1867

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CINCINNATI, May 23, 1867. DEAR SIR: Yours of 21st came to hand this morning. My chief personal objection to being a candidate for governor...
Monday, September 5, 2022

Diary of Congressman Rutherford B. Hayes: December 1, 1865

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Members of the House are entitled to some perquisites: All the back numbers of the Congressional Globe, a small library of some value; seven...
Friday, April 3, 2020

Major-General William T. Sherman to Salmon P. Chase, January 11, 1865

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HEADQUARTERS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,                  In the Field, Savannah Jan 11 1865 Hon S. P. Chase. Washington D...
Friday, June 8, 2018

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, February 13, 1864

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Senator Hale called on me today. Was very plausible and half-confidential. Baker, the detective, had been before his committee. Had told ma...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Salmon P. Chase to Abraham Lincoln, April 11, 1865

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Baltimore, April 11. 1865: My dear Sir, When all mankind are congratulating you, one voice, heard or not, is of little account; but I...
Sunday, January 28, 2018

Charles Sumner to Francis Lieber, May 2, 1865

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I read to President Johnson Colonel Baker’s letter, 1 with your introduction. He said at once that he accepted every word of it; that colo...
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

An Act to Establish a Territorial Government for Utah, September 9, 1850

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That all that part of the ...
Monday, September 11, 2017

An Act proposing to the State of Texas the Establishment of her Northern and Western Boundaries, the Relinquishment by the said State of all Territory claimed by her exterior to said boundaries, and of all her Claims upon the United States, and to establish a territorial Government for New Mexico, September 9, 1850

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: That the following prop...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

Diary of William Howard Russell: June 19, 1861

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It is probable the landlord of the Gayoso House was a strong Secessionist, and resolved, therefore, to make the most out of a neutral custo...