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IX. PAMPHLETS (BOUND AND UNBOUND), ADVERTISEMENTS, AND FLYERS
Located in this section are (1) a scrapbook, (2) bound volumes containing many of the speeches listed in section VI, (3) memoranda and account books, (4) pamphlets, brochures, and flyers. Materials in this last category are filed alphabetically by subject headings and then by author or title. Subjects include Abraham Lincoln, agriculture, Colorado, Congress, finance, Ulysses S. Grant, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Texas, suffrage, railroads, Reconstruction, and tariffs.
Box 9: Two Bound Volumes: Scrapbook (House Documents), and Miscellaneous (1855-1863).
a. Scrapbook (House Documents) (1856-1858). Contains pasted in newspaper clippings of speeches and sermons; listing of members of the executive department and the state legislature for 1858 in the state of Massachusetts; a description of the Brown University Commencement, September 4, 1857; list of the taxes of Southbridge, Massachusetts, for 1857; "Cabbagedom Rejoiceth! Chronological record of the Jubilation" (n.d.); election returns for 1856 for twelve states and 1857 returns for Massachusetts; an account of the Banks Senatorial Convention with SC listed as one of two secretaries (n.d.); a plan for redistricting Worcester County towns for the election of Representatives (n.d.); and a Message of President James Buchanan on the Lecompton Constitution (February 2, 1858). 384 pages. Penciled notation on endpaper concerning the 23rd Legislative District, Southbridge, 1857. 158 pages.
b. Miscellaneous (1855-1863). See accession folder (December, 1981, Addition, Item 15) for complete listing of the contents of this volume. Across reference to each publication has also been included in the appropriate series in the body of the inventory.
Box 10: Speeches and Sermons (1848-1861). See accession folder (November, 1981, Addition, Item 114) for complete listing of the contents of this volume. A cross reference to each publication has been included in the appropriate series in the body of the inventory.
Box 11: Miscellaneous Speeches (1866-1868). See accession folder (December, 1981, Addition, Item 17) for complete listing of the contents of this volume. A cross reference to each publication has been included in the appropriate series in the body of the inventory.
Box 12: Bound Volume and Periodicals (1865-1866, 1906-1935).
a. Speeches (1865-1866). See accession folder (December, 1981, Addition, Item 16) for complete listing of the contents of this volume. A cross reference to each publication has been included in the appropriate series in the body of the inventory.
b. Periodicals (1906-1935).
(1) New York News Letter, Vol. 39, No. 1 (January-Februry, 1906). Contains on pp. 1-4 article by SC entitled "Why Oklahoma and Indian Territory Should Have Statehood."
(2) Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. XIII, No. 1 (March, 1935). Contains on pp. 51-54 an excerpt from and description of SC's funeral oration for Milton W. Reynolds (August 10, 1890) quoted from the Edmond Sun (n.d.).
(3) Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. XIII, No. 4 (December, 1935). Contains on pp. 446-451 an excerpt from memorial address by SC delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of Payne's Oklahoma Colony at Riverside Park, Oklahoma City, October 20, 1895.
Box 13: Account and Memoranda Books (1853, 1863-1864, 1880, and n.d.).
a. Memoranda book with 4 pages of handwritten notes and the following newspaper clippings pasted in:
(1) "Mose Anderson was Rampant for Immediate Statehood" (no source or date). Re: change of statehood stand on the part of SC and others. Lists SC as chairman of resolutions committee at statehood meeting held in legislative hall on January 30, 1901.
(2) "Democratic Opposition" (no source or date; letter dated March 7, 1892). Letter to the Committee on Territories and members of Congress from the Democratic Territorial Central Committee of Oklahoma.
(3) "Territories Should Be Admitted to Statehood" by James K. Jones, Washington Times (n.d.). Re: statehood for three Territories in Omnibus Statehood bill.
(4) "Plea for Single Statehood," Shawnee Herald (n.d.). Re: laying aside partisanship for single statehood issue.
(5) "Guthrie, O. T., Jan. 30," Wichita Eagle (n.d.). Re: statehood meeting, speech by SC in support of immediate statehood, appointment of SC to executive committee and to committee to memorialize Congress.
(6) "Partisan bias has been a great factor...." (no source or date). Re: taking statehood out of political domain.
(7) "Table Showing Date of Admission of Each State and Population When Admitted" (no source or date).
(8) "To the Congress of the United States," designated in SC's handwriting as "Memorial Praying for Admission of Oklahoma as a State."
(9) "The Point of View of Indian Territory" (no source or date). Re: Halsell's opinion on statehood.
(10) "At the single statehood convention...." (no source or date). Re: address by Roy V. Hoffman at Muscogee single statehood convention November 15, 1901.
(11) "The Prison car went north...." (no source or date). Re: transport of long term criminals to Fort Leavenworth.
b. Book of check records (April 13, 1863-April 9, 1864).
c. Book of check records (September 16, 1863-March 25, 1864).
d. E. H. Gruber & Co. Bank book for Capt. Sidney Clarke (May 1864-August 25, [1867?]. Handwritten entries.
e. Simpson Brothers account book for Hon. Sidney Clarke, M.C. (November, 1868). Handwritten entries.
f. Account Book (September 3, 1863-September 20, 1864). "Memorandum of Money Paid for Building and Materials." Handwritten entries.
g. Leather Notebook with miscellaneous handwritten notes (n.d.).
h. Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book (n.d.). Contains handwritten notes about legal cases and miscellaneous notes.
i. Leather Account Book. "6 Wm. Bell Carter" [1863?].
j. Account Book. "Wilson McLellan, Clinton, Kansas (n.d.). Miscellaneous handwritten notes.
k. Gilpin and Frick notebook (n.d.). Handwritten entries of monies received.
l. Notebook containing the following clippings.
(1) "I believe the struggle now going on...." with note in SC's handwriting: "Speech of James G. Blaine in U. S. Senate 1880" (no source). Re: effect of single gold standard.
(2) "We need both gold and silver...." (no source or date). [Continuation of above clipping?]. Re: gold and silver as the media of exchange through history.
(3) "No people in a great emergency...." by John J. Ingalls (no source or date). Re: gold's uselessness in great emergencies.
(4) "If a government contract a debt...." by Abraham Lincoln (no source or date). Re: evil of contracting money before government debt is paid.
(5) "John A. Logan's Prophecy" (no source or date). Re: withdrawal of treasury notes.
(6) "I am going to encourage them...." with note in SC's handwriting: "Mr. Lincoln to Mr. Colfax on the night before his assassination." Re: promotion of miners' interests.
(7) "Silver was demonetized by fraud...." attributed by SC to Bob Ingersoll (no source or date). Re: need to remonetize silver.
(8) "Every man who is opposed...." attributed by SC to James A. Garfield (no source or date). Re: making gold and silver equal and coinage free.
(9) "Ben Wade, in a letter of December 13, 1867" (no source or date). Re: opposition to one payment for the bondholder and another for the people.
(10) "I am clearly of the opinion..." attributed by SC to Daniel Webster (no source or date). Re: belief in gold and silver standard.
(11) "U. S. Supreme Court" (no source or date). Re: lack of constitutional direction on coinage.
m. By-Laws & Rules of Order of the Young Men's Rhetorical Society. Worcester, Massachusetts: Edward R. Fiske, 1853. (2 copies)
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