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[Pamphlets on public affairs. vol. 2.]
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Copyright, International.
- United States--Politics and government--1861-1865.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- Campaign literature--United States.
- Campaign literature.
- Union League of Philadelphia.
- Local government--United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Local government.
- Pennsylvania.
- Physical Description:
- 43 items ; 16-43 cm
- Other Title:
- Public affairs
- Arrangement:
- Items are arranged chronologically.
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia], [publisher not identified], [1853-1897]
- Summary:
- Collection of pamphlets on political and social affairs in Philadelphia, divided into 4 sections (International Copyright, Civil Service Reform, Social questions, Political interests), each with a ms. list of contents. The pamphlets are arranged chronologically and they are bound together in a vol. measuring 25 cm. in height.
- Contents:
- International Copyright: Considerations on international copyright (1853)
- Views of the Philadelphia publishers and others against the passage of an International Copyright Law (ca. 1871)
- Letter to the Committee of Ways and Means (18-?)
- Letter to Hon. Orville H. Platt (1883)
- Open letter to Samuel J. Randall (1884)
- The Dorsheimer Copyright Bill (1884)
- Letter to William Dorsheimer (1884)
- Letter to Mr. Dorsheimer (1884)
- To the Senate and House of Representatives (1888)
- Civil Service Reform: How shall the "Spoils System" be abolished? (1882)
- Congressional patronage (1885)
- A needed warning (1885)
- The legislative and executive departments (1885)
- Mr. Cleveland and Civil Service Reform (1888)
- The spoilsmen and Civil Service Reform (1890)
- Social questions: The policy of insurance (1887)
- The increase of crime, and positivist criminology (1894)
- Key notes from Rome (1890)
- Is there a Roman Catholic Church? (1891)
- Political interests: The first duty of the citizen (1863)
- Bible view of polygamy (1863)
- Memorial to the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled (1864)
- City Bounty Fund Commission, Philadelphia (1864)
- The crisis (1867)
- Address of the Union League of Philadelphia, to the citizens of Pennsylvania (1868)
- Songs for the politicians (1872)
- Constitutional reforms (1872)
- Memorial to the Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania (1873)
- To the delegates of the Republican State Convention of Pennsylvania (1880)
- The third term (1880)
- The public record of Matthew Stanley Quay (1883)
- The Independent Republicans (1883)
- To the voters of Pennsylvania (1884)
- Opposed to Quay (1886?)
- An address in support of the New Constitution (1887)
- An open letter to President Harrison (1890)
- Fetichism in politics (1890)
- The Bill for local taxation (1891)
- Senator Porter's Equalization Bill (1891)
- A Mugwump's view of the situation (1894)
- The true inwardness of the canvass (1896)
- To the Senate of the United States (1897)
- Senator Brown's Bill for re-apportioning the wards of Philadelphia (1897)
- Notes:
- Collection title and contents from ms. leaves inserted at the beginning of each section.
- OCLC:
- 455844349
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