The Annals of America 8

8 of 22 volumes; each volume has separate title.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1850: Compromise Resolutions / Henry Clay: Slavery in the Territories / Horace Mann; Either Slavery or Disunion / John C. Calhoun; A Plea for Harmony and Peace / Daniel Webster; "Ichabod" / John Greenleaf Whittier; A Higher Law than the Constitution / William H. Seward; Slavery and Expansion / Henry Clay: Proposals of the Committee of Thirteen; Defense of the Proposals; A Defense of the President's Plan for Compromise / Anonymous; Resolutions of the Nashville Convention; The Compromise of 1850; Military Presidents; Massachusetts Compulsory Schooling Law; Schooling Adapted to all Classes in Society / Francis Wayland; Railroad Land Grants / Anonymous; Hillside Ditches and Circular Plowing; A Plan for the Promotion of Public Health / Lemuel Shattuck; Hawthorne, Shakespeare, and a Great American Literature / Herman Melville; A Few Words on Rural Architecture / A.J. Downing; The Late Cuba Expedition / Anonymous; A Golden Rule for Foreign Affairs / Millard Fillmore; America's Interest in Foreign Democratic Institutions / Daniel Webster; The State of the Nation / Theodore Parker -- 1851: Country Churches / A.J. Downing; Walking Westward / Henry David Thoreau; Nostalgic Songs of the Westward Movement: "Sweet Betsy From Pike"; "Joe Bowers"; "Acres of Clams"; The Hopedale Community / Adin Ballou; The Underground Railroad / Levi Coffin; A Uniform System of Jurisprudence / Anonymous; An Industrial University for Illinois / Jonathan Baldwin Turner -- 1852: The Suitability of Moral Declarations in Foreign Policy: In Defense of Such Declarations / Lewis Cass; In Opposition to Such Declarations / James C. Jones; Instructions for Commodore Perry / Charles Magill Conrad; Economic Effect of Railroads; Free Land and the Supply of Labor / Josiah Sutherland; Women's Rights / Horace Greeley; The North American Phalanx / Charles Sears; Arguments Against the Maine Liquor Law / Anonymous; A Public Library for Boston; Uncle Tom Defies Simon Legree / Harriet Beecher Stowe; Songs of Slaves and Their Masters: "Blue Tail Fly"; "All the Pretty Little Horses" -- 1853: A Plan for an African American School; The Children's Aid Society / Charles Loring Brace; Appeal by the Women of Massachusetts for Civil Rights; The Promise of the Great Plains / Jessup W. Scott; "Canaday-I-O"; Observations of Some Hungarian Visitors / Francis and Theresa Pulszky; The American Proclivity for Association / Fredrika Bremer; Against the Imitation of European Universities / Wilbur F. Storey --

1854: The Crime of Margaret Douglass in Teaching African American Children to Read / Richard Baker; King Cotton and His Subjects / Frederick Law Olmsted; The Failure of Free Society / George Fitzhugh; Opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Bill; Defense of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill / Stephen A. Douglas; "The Kansas Emigrants" / John Greenleaf Whittier; On the Fugitive Slave Law / Ralph Waldo Emerson; "The Abolitionist Hymn"; The Hireling and the Slave / William J. Grayson; The Difficulty of Being an African American Christian / Charlotte L. Forten; Fragments on Government and Slavery / Abraham Lincoln; Against the Extension of Slavery / Abraham Lincoln; Providing for the Indigent Insane / William H. Seward; The Ostend Manifesto; Life in the Backwoods / James B. Finley; Riding Herd to California / James G. Bell; Where I lived, and What I Lived For / Henry David Thoreau -- 1855: The Emergence of an American Character / Philip Schaff; The Kingdom of Cotton / David Christy; The College and the Church / William S. Tyler; Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act; The Birth and Growth of a Railroad Town / Frithjof Meidell; California African Americans Appeal for Legal Equality; Arkansas Resolutions on the Kansas-Nebraska Act -- 1856: An Appeal to Southerners to Settle Kansas; The Crime Against Kansas / Charles Sumner; The Present Crisis in American Affairs / Theodore Parker; Settler's Songs: "Little Old Sod Shanty"; "Kansas Boys"; Economic Advantages of the Frontier / Christopher C. Andrews; Constitution of the Vigilantes of San Francisco; Martial Law in the Washington Territory / W.H. Wallace, et al.; The Progress of the Americans in the Art of Writing / Anonymous; Letter to Emerson / Walt Whitman; Wicked Architecture / Walt Whitman; The Duty of the American Scholar / George William Curtis; Southern Education for Southerners / John A. Engelhard; Adverse Views on Foreign Immigration / John P. Sanderson; Business Success / Freeman Hunt -- 1857: Dred Scott v. Sandford / Roger B. Taney; African AmericanProtest Over the Dred Scott Decision; Ohio Resolution on the Dred Scott Decision; Address to the People of Kansas / Robert J. Walker; The Dred Scott Decision and the Declaration of Independence / Abraham Lincoln; Advantages of Independence for the Slaveholding States / Edmund Ruffin; Slaves Without Masters / George Fitzhugh; Plantation Management / J.W. Fowler; Slavery and the Deficiency of Commerce in the South / Hinton R. Helper; New England Nativism / Henry J. Gardner; "Cape Cod Chantey"; Rhode Island Child Labor Law; Report on High Education in New York; Slums and Tenant Housing in New York; Trade with China Under Suitable Guarantees / Lewis Cass; "Ode for a Social Meeting" / Oliver Wendell Holmes; Virtues of the American Mind / Count Gurowski. Index of Authors.

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