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Franklin Pierce
March 4, 1853 to March 4, 1857
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Document Title |
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1853 |
March 4, 1853 |
Pierce’s Inaugural Address |
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July 27, 1853 |
Choate’s “Eulogy of Daniel
Webster” |
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December 5, 1853 |
Pierce’s First Annual Message to
Congress |
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1853 |
Trial of Mrs. Douglas for
Teaching Colored Children to Read (excerpt) |
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1854 |
January 18, 1854 |
Pierce’s Proclamation about an
Invasion of Mexico |
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January 19, 1854 |
Appeal of the Independent
Democrats |
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March 31, 1854 |
Treaty with Japan |
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May 3, 1854 |
Pierce’s Veto of Public Land
Grant |
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May 30, 1854 |
Law Organizing the Nebraska &
Kansas Territories |
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June 5, 1854 |
The Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 |
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July 22, 1854 |
Law Establishing the Offices of
Surveyor-General in New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska |
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August 5, 1854 |
Law Carrying into effect Treaty
between Great Britain & U.S. |
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October 8, 1854 |
The Ostend Manifesto |
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October 16, 1854 |
Lincoln's Speech: Slavery and
the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise |
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December 4, 1854 |
Pierce’s Second Annual Message
to Congress |
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December 19, 1854 |
Law Extinguishing Title to
Chippewa Lands |
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December 30, 1854 |
Pierce’s Veto of Improvements of
Public Works |
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1854 |
Thoreau’s “Slavery in
Massachusetts” |
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1855 |
February 17, 1855 |
Pierce’s Veto of Bill Settling
Claims against the French |
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February 17, 1855 |
Law for Construction of
Telegraph from Mississippi & Missouri Rivers to Pacific Ocean |
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May 21, 1855 |
Massachusetts Personal Liberty
Act {excerpt} |
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December 31, 1855 |
Pierce’s Third Annual Message to
Congress |
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1856 |
January 24, 1856 |
Pierce’s Message to Congress
about Kansas & Nebraska |
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February 11, 1856 |
Pierce’s Proclamation Respecting
Disturbances in Kansas |
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February 21, 1856 |
American National Council Party
Platform |
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April 9, 1856 |
Seward’s Speech for Immediate
Admission of Kansas |
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May 15, 1856 |
Constitution of the Committee of
Vigilantes of San Francisco {excerpt} |
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May 15, 1856 |
Pierce’s Message to Congress
about a Canal between the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans |
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May 19–20, 1856 |
Sumner’s Speech “The Crime
Against Kansas: The Apologies for the Crime; The True Remedy” |
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June 1856 |
Democratic Party Platform |
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June 2, 1856 |
Pierce’s Proclamation Respecting
the Mexican Boundary |
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June 19, 1856 |
Republican Party Platform |
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July 14, 1856 |
Brooks’ Speech “In Defense of
His Attack on Sumner” {Excerpt} |
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August 18, 1856 |
Law Respecting Copyrights |
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August 18, 1856 |
Pierce’s Proclamation for a
Special Session of Congress |
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August 21, 1856 |
Pierce’s Message to Congress
about their Failure to Appropriate for the Army |
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September 17, 1856 |
Whig Party Platform |
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December 2, 1856 |
Pierce’s Fourth Annual Message
to Congress |
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1857 |
February 11, 1857 |
Joint Session of Congress to
Count the Votes of the 1856 Election |
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February 16, 1857 |
Pierce’s Proclamation for a
Special Session of the Senate |
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February 21, 1857 |
Law Relating to Coinage |
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February 26, 1857 |
Law Authorizing Minnesota to
form Constitution and State Government |
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March 2, 1857 |
Law Prohibiting Importation of
Obscene and Indecent Articles |
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March 3, 1857 |
Law Expediting Telegraphic
Communications |
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March 3, 1857 |
Seward’s Speech to the Senate |
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August 02, 2006 |