9. Jacksonian Democracy, Manifest Destiny, and Sectionalism (1829-1861)
The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi. Salt Lake City, Utah: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1985. EVC, NRG: BX 8623 1985. (Another copy, published, 1981 is at RVS. Another copy, published, 1977 is at CYP. Same call number for both copies except for year. Another copy, published in 1980, is at RGC.)
Barry, James Buckner. Buck Barry: Texas Ranger and Frontiersman. Edited by James K. Greer. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. CYP: F 391 .B28
Bode, Carl, ed. American Life in the 1840s. (Documents of American Civilization.) Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1967. PIN: E 165 .B7 1967
Brevard, Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins. A Plantation Mistress on the Eve of the Civil War: The Diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-1861. Edited by John Hammond Moore. (Women’s Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth-century South.) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. (Author lived in or near Columbia, South Carolina.) NRG: F 279 .C7 B74 1993.
Bryant, William Cullen. Power for Sanity: Selected Editorials of William Cullen Bryant, 1829-1861. Compiled and annotated by William Cullen Bryant II. New York: Fordham University Press, 1994. (Author was editor of the New York Evening Post during the period. “Bryant brought the conservative journal to the support of the Democratic Party of President Andrew Jackson, and held it thereafter to liberal principles, advocating free trade, free labor, and Free Soil.”) NRG, RVS: E 415.7 .B79 1994
Christy, David. Cotton Is King, or the Culture of Cotton and Its Relation to Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Commerce; amd To the Free Colored People, and to Those Who Hold that Slavery Is Itself Sinful; by an American. 2nd Edition, Revised and Enlarged. (Reprints of Economic Classics.) Clifton, N.J.: A. M. Kelley, 1975. (Reprint of 1856 edition. Author argues that Southern cotton production and slavery are inextricably tied together, while not defending the institution of slavery itself. Castigates Northerners for treatment of free blacks.) RVS: E 449 .C557 1975
Commager, Henry Steele. The Era of Reform, 1830-1860. Malaber, Fla.: R. E. Krieger Pub. Co., 1982. RVS: HN 64 .E68 1982
Curtis, Samuel Ryan. Mexico under Fire: Being the Diary of Samuel Ryan Curtis, 3rd Ohio Volunteer Regiment, during the American Military Occupation of Northern Mexico, 1846-1847. Edited by Joseph E. Chance. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1994. (Author commanded Ohio volunteers charged with keeping order in Mexican towns along the Rio Grande and in Saltillo until mid 1847, when they were discharged.) PIN: E 411 .C87 1994
Dana, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh. Monterrey is Ours! The Mexican War Letters of Lt. Dana, 1845-1847. Edited by Robert H. Ferrell. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. (Content: Author writes of experiences in southern Texas, Matamoros, Reynosa, Camargo, Monterrey, Tampico, Vera Cruz, and Cerro Gordo.) CYP: E 411 .D25 1990
Davis, Jefferson. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. (Abridged for the modern reader.) Reprinted, Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1971. (Written in the late 1870s. The first 156 pages deals with the pre-Civil War period. Much of it deals with Davis’ interpretation of the United States Constitution, of events of the 1850s and 1860, and includes his defense of the establishment of the Confederacy in the early months of 1861.) CYP, RGC: E 487 .D263 1961
Dickens, Charles. American Notes and Pictures from Italy. London: Dutton, 1970. (Published originally in 1842, the year of his visit in the United States.) NRG: E 165 .D54
Dublin, Thomas, ed. Farm to Factory: Women’s Letters, 1830-1860. 2nd ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. NRG: HD 6073 .T42 U53 1993
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Essays. (lst & 2nd Series.) Reading, Pa.: Spencer Press, 1936. RGC: PS 1608 .A1 1936
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Essays, Second Series. Edited by Joseph Slater. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press, 1983. NRG: PS 1608 .A2 E87 1983
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Portable Emerson. Rev. ed. Edited by Carl Bode. New York: Viking Press, 1981. RGC, RVS: PS 1603 .B6 1981
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative Selections. New York: American Book Co., 1934. NRG: PS 1602
Eisler, Benita, ed. The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1845). New York: Harper, 1980. NRG, RGC: HD 6073 .T42 U54 1980
Finney, Charles G. The Memoirs of Charles G. Finney: The Complete Restored Text. Edited by Rarth M. Rosell and Richard A. G. Dupuis. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Academie, 1989. NRG: BX 7260 .F47 A3 1939
Fox, Tryphena Blanche. A Northern Woman in the Plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Fox, 1856-1876. (Women’s Letters and Diaraies of the Nineteenth-Century South.) Edited by Wilma King. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. (Author was Massachusetts-born and bred. Nearly all the letters, written from Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana, The letters are to her mother in New England. They reveal much about middle-class Southern life and detail how Fox quickly adopted the customs, prejudices, and politics of the South.The pre-Civil War letters are on pp. 25-118.) RGC: E 445 .L8 F68 1993
Grimke, Angelina, and Sarah Grimke. The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina Grimke: Selected Writings, 1835-1839. Edited by Larry Ceplar. New York: Columbia University Press, 1989. (Letters, diary entries, etc. Subjects: anti-slavery and women’s rights ideas and activities. Some letters are to the sisters from others. Arranged topically.) RVS: E 449 .G865 P83 1989
Grund, Francis J. Aristocracy in America. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. (Author was a German liberal who traveled in America in the 1830s. Like Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, this book points up the egalitarian character of America society. Unlike Tocqueville, Grund was enthusiastic and optimistic about democracy.) RGC: E 165 .G91
Hart, Katherine, and Elizabeth Kemp, eds. Lucadia Pease and the Governor: Letters, 1850-1857. Austin: Encino Press, 1974. (Letters written by Lucadia and Elisha Marshall Pease to one another and to other family members. Pease was a candidate for governor of Texas in 1851 and was elected to that office in 1853 and 1855. Much of the material is personal. Reveals apects of life in Texas during the period.) NRG: F 391 .P35 L8
Hecker, Isaac T. Isaac T. Hecker: The Diary; Romantic Religion in Ante-Bellum America. Edited by John Farina. (Sources of American Spirituality.) New York: Paulist Press, 1988. (Author writes of time spent at Brook Farm, acquaintanceship with Transcendentalist leaders, conversion to Catholicism. Very introspective with respect to spiritual journey. Years covered: 1843-1845.) NRG: BX 4705 .H4 A3 1988
Heffernan, Nancy Coffey, and Ann Page Stecker. Sisters of Fortune: Being the True Story of How Three Motherless Sisters Saved Their Home in New England and Raised Their Younger Brother While Their Father Went Fortune Hunting in the California Gold Rush. Hanover, N. H.: University Press of New England, 1993. (Wilson family correspondence. [Keene, New Hampshire], 19th century.) RGC: F 44 .K2 H44 1993.
Heintzelman, Samuel Peter. Fifty Miles and a Fight: Major Samuel Peter Heinzelman’s Journal of Texas and the Cortina War. Edited with an introduction by Jerry Thompson. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1997.(Coverage: April 17, 1859-December 31, 1860. Pennsylvanian Heintzelmann commanded U.S. Army troops at Fort Duncan and Camp Verde in Texas and, most notably, Brownsville area during the so-called “Cortina War” of 1859-1860. While the journal focuses on that conflict, there is interesting material on other subjects, including the early stages of the secession crisis.) RVS: F 391 .C77 H45 1998
Hughes, John Taylor. Doniphan’s Expedition; Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico; General Kearney’s Overland Expedition to California; Doniphan’s Campaign Against the Navajos; his Unparalleled March upon Chihuahua and Durango; and the Operations of General Price at Santa Fe . . . . College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. (Originally published in 1847. Author was a member of the First Regiment of Missouri Mounted Volunteeers, commanded by Col. Alexander Doniphan. Although written in the form of a historical treatise, the work is based largely on Hughes’ notes, personal journal, personal experiences, and letters to his hometown newspaper.) RGC: E 405.2 .H943 1997
Johnson, Michael P., and James L. Roark, eds. No Chariot Let Down: Charleston’s Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. NRG: F 279 .C49 N46 1984
Kemble, Fanny. Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838-1839. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984. RGC: E 445 .G3 K46 1984
Kirkham, Ralph W. The Mexican War Journal and Letters of Ralph W. Kirkham. Edited by Robert Ryal Miller. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1991. (Period covered: March 1847-July 1848. Descriptions of route from Vera Cruz to Mexico City and of military activity in environs of the Mexican capital.) RVS: E 411 .K57 1991
Laidley, Theodore. “Surrounded by Dangers of All Kinds”: The Mexican War Letters of Theodore Laidley. Edited (with explanatory detail) by James M. McCaffrey. (War and the Southwest Series.) Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1997. (Author was a young Ohioan and West Point graduate. Held rank of lieutenant in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War. Letters begin August 23, 1845, and end May 13, 1848. Places and campaigns include Brazos Santiago, Tampico, Vera Cruz, Sierra Gordo, Jalapa, Perote, Puebla, and Mexico City.) CYP: E 411 .L34 1997
Lee, Agnes. Growing Up in the 1850s: The Journal of Agnes Lee. Edited by Mary Custis Lee DeButts. Chapel Hill: University of South Carolina Press, 1984. (Written by the daughter of Robert E. Lee.) RGC, RVS: E 467.1 .L4 L37 1984
Lincoln, Abraham. Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Writings and Speeches. Edited by Michael P. Johnson. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001. (Relevant material is on pp. 13-115.) CYP, PIN, RGC, RVS: E 457,2 .A145 2001
Lincoln, Abraham. Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858. N.Y.: Library of America, 1989. (Includes at least selections from the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.) NRG, RGG: E 457.92 .L52 1989
Lincoln, Abraham. Speeches and Writings, 1859-1865. N.Y.: Library of America, 1989. NRG, RGC: E 457.92 .L522 1989b
Lincoln, Abraham, and Stephen. A. Douglas. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: The First Complete, Unexpurgated Text. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. NRG: E 457.4 .L776 1993
Marryat, Frederick. A Diary in America, with Remarks on its Institutions. Edited by S. W. Jackman. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973. (First published in London in 1839. Describes social life and customs in the first half of the nineteenth century.) RGC: E 165 .M373 197
Martineau, Harriet. Society in America. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1962. (English visitor’s views of the United States in the late 1830s. Includes southern states.) NRG: E 165 .M393 1962
McAfee, Ward, and J. Cordell Robinson, eds. Origins of the Mexican War: A Documentary Source Book. 2 vols. Salisbury, N.C.: Documentary Publications, 1982. RGC: E 407 .074 1982
Miller, Robert Ryal, ed. The Mexican War: Journal and Letters of Ralph W. Kirkham. (Essays on the American West, number 11.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 1993. RVS: E 411 .K57 1991
Morrell, Z. N. Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness; or Thirty-six Years in Texas and Two Winters in Honduras. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 1976. (Reprint of 1872 edition, with some material from 1886 edition. Author, a Baptist minister, came to Texas in 1835. This memoir emphasizes author’s involvement in the growth of the Baptist movement in Texas but includes observations and memories of other aspects of Texas history as well.) PIN: BX 6248 .T4 M8 1976.
Olmsted, Frederick Law. A Journey through Texas, or, a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978. (Trip by a New Yorker in the mid-1850s. Has much to say about slavery and daily life of Anglo and German settlers.) NRG, RGC: F 391 .O512 1978. (RGC copy is on 2-hour reserve. Ask at Circulation Desk.)
Olmsted, Frederick Law. The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. Edited, with an introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger. New York: Modern Library, 1969. (originally pub., 1861. Author’s condensation of his A Journey in the Seaborad Slave States, with Remarks on Their Economy, A Journey through Texas; or, a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier, and A Journey in the Back Country.). PIN: F 213 .O53 1969
Olmsted, Frederick Law. The Slave States. Rev. and enl. ed. Edited by Harvey Wish. New York: Capricorn Books, 1959. EVC: F 213 .O54 1959b
Otter, William, Sr. History of My Own Times; or, the Life and Adventures of William Otter, Sen., Comprising A Series of Events, and Musical Incidents Altogether Original. Edited by Richard C.Scott. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1995. (Author a plasterer, etc., who emigrated from England. Is a “counterpoint to romantic notions of virtuous, respectable craftsmen in the early republic.” An “inside account of the brawling racism common in the early nineteenth century. Details “the rowdy male subculture of the times.” Was plasterer, tavernkeeper, slavecatcher, etc. Covers years 1801-1835.) RVS: E 165 .O89 1995
Parker, A. A. Trip to the West and Texas, Comprising a Journey of Eight Thousand Miles, through New York, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, and Texas, in the Autumn and Winter of 1834-5. (The Far Western Frontier.) New York: Arno, 1973. (Reprint of 1835 ed. Places described include the Erie Canal, Niagra Falls, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Natchez, and New Orleans. In Texas, he visited San Augustine, Nacogdoches San Felipe, Columbia, Brazoria, and Velasco. Detailed comments on Texas and on slavery there and in the southern states.) PIN: F 353 .P23 1973
Ratner, Lorman. Pre-Civil War Reform: The Variety of Principles and Programs. (American Historical Sources: Research and Interpretation.) Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1967. (Instructor has table of contents.) EVC: HN 64 .R23 1967
Reid, Samuel Chester. The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch’s Texas Rangers, or, The Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of the United States in Mexico, 1846. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1970. (Reprint of 1847 ed. Based on Reid’s field account. Has been called “the best contemporary account of the Texas Rangers in the northern campaigns of the Mexican War.”) RVS: E 405.1 .R35 1970
Rozwenc, Edwin Charles, ed. The Compromise of 1850. (Problems in American Civilization: Readings Selected by the Department of American Studies, Amherst College.) Boston: Heath, 1957. RGC: E 423 .R8 1957
Rozwenc, Edwin Charles, ed. Ideology and Power in the Age of Jackson. ( Documents in American Civilization.) Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1964. RVS: E 165 .R9 1964
Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de. The Eagle: The Autobiography of Santa Anna. Edited by Ann Fears Crawford. Austin, Tex.: State House Press, 1988. NRG, PIN, RVS: F 1232 .S23 A32 1988. (An earlier edition, with different publication data, is at RGC.)
Sibley, Joel H. The Transformation of American Politics, 1840-1860. (American Historical Sources Series: Research and Interpretation.) Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1967. NRG; E 415.7 .S58 1967
Stampp, Kenneth M., ed. The Causes of the Civil War. Rev. ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. (Documents supporting various possible causes.) CYP, NRG, RVS: E 459 .C357 (NRG copy published in 1974.)
Stillman, J. D. B. Wanderings in the Southwest in 1855. (Western Frontiersmen Series.) Spokane, Wash.: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1990. (Author, a New York physician, visited Texas for six months in 1855, landing at Indianola. Spent time in Port Lavaca, Goliad, Helena, San Antonio, and then west to Fort Clark and Camp Lancaster, traveling as far as the Pecos River.) RVS: F 391 .S86 1990
Thoreau, Henry David. Selected Journals. Edited by Carl Bode. New York: New American Library, 1967. NRG: PS 3042 .B62 1967
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Civil Disobedience. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Engl.: Penguin Books, 1983. RGC: PS 3048 .A1 1983
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Other Writings. Edited by William L. Howarth. New York: Modern Library, 1981. NRG, RGC, RVS: PS 3042 .H6 1981
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Resistance to Civil Government: Authoritative Texts, Journal, Reviews, and Essays in Criticism. Edited by Owen Paul Thomas. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. CYP, PIN: PS 3048 .A1 1991b
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden, or, Life in the Woods, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. New York: New American Library, 1960. EVC, RGC: PS 3048 .A1 1960
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. Edited by J. P. Meyer. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1969. (First published in 1835. Based on the French nobleman’s visit to the United States in 1831.) RVS: JK 216 .T7 1969b. CYP, EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC, and RVS have copies of different editions with different editors, publishers and dates JK 216 .T7 1945, 1966a, 1969, 1981, and 1984
Trollope, Frances. Domestic Manners of the Americans. Edited with a history of Mrs. Trollope’s adventures in America, by Donald Smalley. New York: Knopf, 1949. (Written in 1832 by an English visitor.) NRG, RGC: E 165 .T84 1949
Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. New York: Penguin Books, 1986. RGC, RVS F 353 .C6458 1986. (Other copies, with different publishers and publication dates, are at EVC and NRG.
Urbantke, Carl. Texas is the Place for Me: The Autobiography of a German Immigrant Youth: Carl Urbantke. Translated from the German by Ella Urbantke Fischer. Austin, Tex.: Pemberton Press, 1970. (Author immigrated to Texas from Silesia in 1853. Became Methodist minister; founded Blinn College at Brenham. Information on frontier life and the growth of German settlements in south central Texas.) NRG, RGC: BX 8495 .U7 A313
Webster, Daniel. Daniel Webster, “the Completest Man.” Edited by Kenneth E. Shewmaker. Hanover, New Hamphire. University Press of New England, 1990. (Documents from the papers of Daniel Webster.) RGC: E 337.8 .W242 1990
Wish, Harvey, ed. Ante-bellum Writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on Slavery. New York: Capricorn Books, 1960. (Contents: George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South and Cannibals All!; Hinton Rowan Helper, The Impending Crisis.) NRG, PIN: E 449 .W82
(See also Dimond, E. Grey, and Herman Hattaway, eds. Letters from Forest Place: A Plantation Family’s Correspondence, 1846-1881. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. NRG: F 377 .C3 L48 1993.)
(See also The United States: Federalist Era through 1877; The Frontier and the West; Native Americans in United States History, 1492-1877; African Americans in United States History, 1600s-1877; Women in United States History, 1492-1877; and Texas History before Annexation to the United States.)