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Alabama Convention. Ordinances and Constitution of the State of Alabama: With the Constitution of the Provisional Government and the Confederate States of America. Montgomery: Barrett, Wimbish, Steam Printers and Binders, 1861.
Arkansas Convention. Journal of Both Sessions of the Convention of the State of Arkansas. Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes, State Printers, 1861.
Carter, Clarence Edwin, and John Porter Bloom, eds. The Territorial Papers of the United States. 28 vols. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1934–75.
Connor, R. D. W., ed. North Carolina Manual. Raleigh: North Carolina Historical Commission, 1921.
Dedication of the Monument on Boston Common Erected to the Memory of the Men of Boston Who Died in the Civil War. Boston: Printed by Order of the City Council, 1877.
Elliot, Jonathan, ed. The Debates in the Several State Conventions of the Adoption of the Federal Constitution. 2nd ed. 5 vols. Washington, DC: Printed for the Editor, 1836.
Farrand, Max, ed. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. 3 vols. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1911.
Florida Convention. Constitution or Form of Government for the People of Florida. Tallahassee: Office of the Floridian and Journal, 1861.
Georgia Convention of the People. Journal of the Public and Secret Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Georgia. Milledgeville: Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, State Printers, 1861.
Kerr, Robert J., ed. Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of Louisiana: Which Assembled at New Orleans, January 14, 1844. New Orleans: Besancon, Ferguson, 1845.
Louisiana Constitutional Convention. Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Convention of the State of Louisiana. New Orleans: Nixon, Printer to the State Convention, 1861.
Mann, Horace. Annual Reports on Education. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1872.
Massachusetts General Court. Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts in the Year 1858. Boston: William White, 1858.
———. Debates and Proceedings in the Massachusetts Legislature at the Regular Session Which Was Begun at the State House in Boston on Wednesday, the Seventh Day of January [1857]. Boston: Charles Hale, 1857.
Mississippi Legislature. Laws of the State of Mississippi: Passed at a Called Session of the Mississippi Legislature Held in the City of Jackson, July 1861. Jackson: Barksdale, 1861.
North Carolina General Assembly. Public Laws of the State of North Carolina, Passed by the General Assembly, at Its Second Extra Session of 1861. Raleigh: John Spelman, 1861.
Pierce, John. “Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, December 31, 1838.” Document No. 3 of Documents Accompanying the Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Michigan at the Annual Session of 1839. Detroit: J. S. and S. A. Hagg, Printers, 1839.
Richardson, James D., ed. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Confederacy. 2 vols. Nashville: United States Publishing, 1905.
———, ed. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789–1897. 10 vols. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1896–99.
South Carolina General Assembly. House of Representatives. Special Committee on Slavery and the Slave Trade. Report of the Minority of the Special Committee of Seven: To Whom Was Referred So Much of Gov. Adams’ Message, No. 1, as Relates to Slavery and the Slave Trade. Charleston: Harper & Calvo, Printers, 1858.
South Carolina Legislature. The South Carolina Legislative Times: Being the Debates and Proceedings in the Carolina Legislature. Columbia: E. H. Britton, 1856.
Stowe, Calvin. Report on Elementary Instruction in Europe Made to the Thirty-Sixth General Assembly of the State of Ohio, December 19, 1837. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1838.
Tennessee General Assembly. Public Acts of the State of Tennessee, Passed at the First Session of the Thirty-Fourth General Assembly, for the Years 1861–62. Nashville: Griffith, Camp, State Printers, Union and American Office, 1862.
Texas. General Laws of the Eighth Legislature of the State of Texas, Extra Session. Austin: John Marshall, State Printers, 1861.
Thorpe, Francis Newton, ed. The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic Laws of the States and Territories Now or Heretofore Forming the United States of America. 7 vols. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1909.
U.S. Bureau of Education. Special Report of the Commissioner of Education on the Condition and Improvement of Public Schools in the District of Columbia, Submitted to the Senate June 1868, and to the House with Additions June 13, 1870. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1871.
U.S. Bureau of the Census. A Century of Population Growth, from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1909.
U.S. Census Office. Agriculture of the United States in 1860, Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth Census. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1864.
———. Population of the United States in 1860, Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth Census. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1864.
———. The Statistics of the Population of the United States, Embracing the Tables of Race, Nationality, Sex, Selected Ages, and Occupations. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Ninth Census. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1872.
U.S. Congress. Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction at the First Session Thirty-Ninth Congress. 39th Cong., 1st Sess., House Report 30. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1866.
———. Message of the President of the United States and Accompanying Documents to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the Third Session of the Fortieth Congress. Report of the Secretary of War, 40th Cong., 3rd Sess., House Ex. Doc. No. 1. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1868.
———. Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, Made to the Two Houses of Congress, February 19, 1872. 13 vols. 42nd Cong., 2nd Sess. H. R. Rep. 22. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1872.
Virginia Constitutional Convention. Proceedings and Debates of the Virginia State Convention of 1829–1830. Richmond: S. Shepherd, 1830.
Virginia Convention. Ordinances Adopted by the Virginia Convention in Secret Session in April and May 1861. N.p., n.d.
———. Ordinances Adopted by the Virginia Convention at the Adjourned Session in November and December, 1861. N.p., n.d.
Selected Speeches and Writings by Republicans of the Thirty-Eighth, Thirty-Ninth, and Fortieth Congresses, 1863–1869
Arnold, Isaac Newton. The History of Abraham Lincoln, and the Overthrow of Slavery. Chicago: Clarke, 1866.
Ashley, James M. Duplicate Copy of the Souvenir from the Afro-American League of Tennessee. Edited by Benjamin W. Arnett. Philadelphia: AME Church, 1894.
Baker, Jehu. Abridged Speech of Jehu Baker, Delivered at Alton, October 2, 1858. Alton, IL: Courier Steam Book and Job, 1858.
———. Montesquieu’s Considerations of the Causes of the Grandeur and Decadence of the Romans. New York: D. Appleton, 1889.
Banks, Nathaniel P. “Eulogy.” In A Memorial of James Abram Garfield from the City of Boston, 37–76. Boston: Printed by the Order of the City Council, 1881
———. The Great Questions of National and State Politics: Speech of Hon. Nathaniel Banks of Waltham, Delivered at Worcester, before the Young Men’s Ratification Convention, September 8th. Boston: Office of Daily Bee, 1857.
———. Reconstruction of States: Letter of Major-General Banks to Senator Lane. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865.
Blaine, James G. Political Discussions, Legislative, Diplomatic, and Popular, 1856–1886. Norwich, CT: Henry Bill, 1887.
———. Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln to Garfield. 2 vols. Norwich, CT: Henry Bill, 1884–86.
Boutwell, George S. “The Future of the Republican Party.” North American Review 131, no. 289 (1880): 475–83.
———. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs. 2 vols. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1902.
———. Speeches and Papers Relating to the Rebellion and the Overthrow of Slavery. Boston: Little, Brown, 1867.
———. “The Usurpation.” Atlantic Monthly 18, no. 108 (1866): 506–13.
———. Why I Am a Republican. Tecumseh, MI: A. W. Mills, 1884.
Butler, Benjamin Franklin. Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences. Boston: A. M. Thayer, 1892.
———. Private and Official Correspondence of Gen. Benjamin F Butler. 5 vols. Norwood, CT: Plimpton Press, 1917.
Chandler, Zachariah. Last and Greatest Speech of Zachariah Chandler, Late U.S. Senator from Michigan, Delivered at McCormick Hall, Chicago, Oct. 31, 1879. Chicago: Fergus, 1879.
Cole, Cornelius. Memoirs of Cornelius Cole. New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1908.
Conkling, Roscoe, and Alfred R. Conkling. The Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling, Orator, Statesman, Advocate. New York: Charles Webster, 1889.
Conness, John. Some of the Men and Measures of the War and Reconstruction Period. Boston: Nathan Sawyer & Son, 1882.
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Deming, Henry. A Speech for the Useful Arts: Delivered at New Haven, January 2d, 1856. Hartford, CT: Case, Tiffany, 1856.
Dodge, Grenville. Personal Recollections of Lincoln. Council Bluffs, IA: Monarch, 1911.
Drake, Charles D. Union and Anti-slavery Speeches Delivered during the Rebellion. Cincinnati: Applegate, 1864.
Edmunds, George F. Addresses Delivered before the Vermont Historical Society, in the Representatives’ Hall, Montpelier, October 16, 1866. Montpelier, VT: Walton’s Steam, 1866.
———. “Ex-Senator Edmunds on Reconstruction and Impeachment.” Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine 85 (1913): 863–64.
———. “The State and the Nation.” North American Review 133, no. 299 (1881): 338–52.
Garfield, James Abram. The Works of James Abram Garfield. Edited by Burke A. Hinsdale. 2 vols. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882–83.
Grinnell, Josiah Bushnell. Men and Events of Forty Years. Boston: D. Lothrop, 1891.
Hayes, Rutherford B. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States. Edited by Charles Richard Williams. 5 vols. Columbus: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1922.
———. Letters and Messages of Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1881.
Ingersoll, Ebon C. The South: A Letter from a Friend in the North. Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1856.
Julian, George W. “The Death-Struggle of the Republican Party.” North American Review 126, no. 261 (1878): 262–92.
———. “The First Republican National Convention.” American Historical Review 4, no. 2 (1899): 313–22.
———. The Life of Joshua Giddings. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, 1892.
———. Political Recollections, 1840–1872. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, 1884.
———. “Review of The Liberty and Free Soil Parties in the Northwest, by Theodore Clark Smith.” American Historical Review 4, no. 1 (1898): 180–83.
———. “Some Ante-bellum Politics.” North American Review 163, no. 477 (1896): 195–206.
———. Speeches on Political Questions. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1872.
Kasson, John. The Evolution of the Constitution of the United States and History of the Monroe Doctrine. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904.
Kelley, William D. Speeches, Addresses and Letters on Industrial and Financial Questions. Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1872.
———. Speeches of Hon. William D. Kelley: Replies of the Hon. William D. Kelley to George Northrop, Esq., in the Joint Debate in the Fourth Congressional District. Philadelphia: Collins, 1864.
Logan, John A. The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and History. New York: A. R. Hart, 1886.
Lynch, John. The Facts of Reconstruction. New York: Neale, 1913.
———. Some Historical Errors of James Ford Rhodes. Boston: Cornhill, 1922.
Morrill, Justin S. “Erratic Platforms of the Democracy.” North American Review 155, no. 430 (1892): 268–80.
Morton, Oliver P. “The American Constitution.” Pts. 1 and 2. North American Review 124, no. 256 (1877): 341–47; 125, no. 257 (1877): 68–79.
Orth, Godlove S., and Herman Schauinger. “The Letters of Godlove S. Orth, Hoosier Whig.” Indiana Magazine of History 39, no. 4 (1943): 365–400.
Patterson, James W. 89th Anniversary of the National Independence, July 4, 1865, at Dover, N.H. Dover, NH: B. Barnes Jr., 1865.
Raum, Green B. The Existing Conflict between Republican Government and Southern Oligarchy. Cleveland: N. G. Hamilton, 1884.
———. History of Illinois Republicanism, Embracing a History of the Republican Party in the State to the Present Time. Chicago: Rollins, 1900.
Raymond, Henry J. History of the Administration of Abraham Lincoln. New York: J. C. Derby & N. C. Miller, 1864.
Roots, Logan S. “Assassination as a Political Argument.” North American Review 148, no. 388 (1889): 280–87.
Ross, Edmund G. History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States by the House of Representatives and His Trial by the Senate. Santa Fe: New Mexican Printing, 1896.
———. “Political Leaders of the Reconstruction Period.” Forum 20 (Oct. 1895): 218–34.
———. A Reminiscence of the Kansas Conflict. Albuquerque: Albright and Anderson, 1898.
Sherman, John. John Sherman’s Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet. 2 vols. Chicago: Werner, 1895.
Sherman, John, and William T. Sherman. The Sherman Letters: Correspondence between General and Senator Sherman from 1837 to 1891. Edited by Rachel Sherman Thorndike. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1894.
Spalding, Rufus P. Oration on American Independence, Delivered at Akron, Ohio, July 3, 1847. Akron, OH: H. Canfield, 1847.
Stevens, Thaddeus. An Address Delivered on the Fourth of July, 1835, at an Anti-Masonic Celebration. Pittsburgh: n.p., 1835.
———. The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens. Edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer and Holly Byers Ochoa. 2 vols. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997–98.
Stewart, William. Reminiscences of Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada. Edited by George Rothwell Brown. New York: Neale, 1908.
Sumner, Charles. The Works of Charles Sumner. 15 vols. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1870–83.
Thayer, M. Russell. The Life, Character and Writings of Francis Lieber. Philadelphia: Collins, Printer, 1873.
———. A Reply to Mr. Charles Ingersoll’s “Letter to a Friend in Slave State.” Philadelphia: John Campbell, 1862.
Tipton, Thomas W. Forty Years of Nebraska at Home and in Congress. Lincoln, NE: State Journal, 1902.
Wentworth, John. Congressional Reminiscences. Chicago: Fergus, 1882.
Willey, Waitman. Lecture on Liberty and Union, Delivered in Wheeling, January 17, 1854. Wheeling, WV: J. E. Wharton, 1854.
Williams, George H. “The ‘Free-State Letter’ of Judge George H. Williams: Slavery in Oregon [July 28, 1857].” Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society 9, no. 3 (1908): 254–73.
———. Occasional Addresses. Portland, OR: F. W. Baltes, 1895.
———. Reconstruction: Speech of Hon. Geo. H. Williams, Delivered at Portland, Oregon, September 23d, 1867. Portland, OR: A. G. Walling, 1867.
———. “Reminiscences of the United States Supreme Court.” Yale Law Journal 8, no. 7 (1899): 296–305.
Williams, Thomas, and Burta Alva Konkle. The Life and Speeches of Thomas Williams, Orator, Statesman and Jurist, 1806–1872. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Campion, 1905.
Wilson, Henry. History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America. 3 vols. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1874–77.
———. “The New Departure of the Republican Party.” Atlantic Monthly 27, no. 159 (1871): 104–20.
Wilson, James F. “Some Memories of Lincoln.” North American Review 163, no. 481 (1896): 667–75.
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