Source: Alien Act, 25 June 1798

UNITED STATES HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT: DOCUMENT LIST (Cur03Dox)

Alien & Sedition Acts 17895
Hamilton opinion on bank6
A. Johnson’s pardon to rebels 18617-8
Anti-suffrage (women’s) opinion 19059
Jane Addams/the vote & social reform 190610
AFL & women in the workforce11
Loyalty oath (WW)12
Vietnam Cartoon I13
Vietnam policy Cartoon II14
Manifest Destiny/Race15
Frederick Douglass/pre-15th Amendment 186616
Brandeis Brief/Lochner v. NY 190817-18
Election Broadside 179619
Cross of Gold speech/W.J. Bryan 189620
Bryan on Philippines 190021
Burr charges for Hamilton duel22
Congress Declaration of War memo/cabinet meeting 191723-27
Defense of Slavery/Calhoun 184428-29
Positive Good Theory/Calhoun30
Indian Policy/Calhoun 182531
Carnegie/Wealth [weak]32
Dignity of Labor/Cleveland 188433
Indenture Contract 161934
Assessment of Black Power by the Black press 196935
Langston Hughes/The Big Sea (excerpt)36
MLK/I Have a Dream speech 196337
Black Manifesto/James Forman 196938
Black Panthers 196639
Stokely Carmichael/Black Consciousness 196640
Stokely Carmichael/defines Black Power 196741
Malcolm X demands Civil Rights42
TJ Dec. of Ind. draft edit43
Civil War Causes/disputed theories44
Truman Doctrine speech45-46
Eisenhower Press Conference/Domino Theory 195447
Kissinger explains Détente48
Wally Lippman/critique of Containment 194749
Marshall Plan50
Eugene Debs/critique of WWI 191851
Debs v. U.S./majority opinion 191952
Declaration of Independence/final & complete 177653-56
Emancipation Proclamation 186357
Espionage Act 191858
Washington’s Farewell Address59
Federalist #10 178760
Federalist #51 178861
Imperialism/Beveridge62-63
William Lloyd Garrison/The Liberator 183164
Garrison/abolition (Am. Anti-slavery Soc.) 183365
Geronimo/Coming of the White Man66-67
Gettysburg Address 186368
Horace Greeley on John Brown (NYTribune) 185969
Plessy v. Ferguson/dissenting opinion 189670
Civil Service Reform/Hayes’ support of71
Haymarket/Gompers asks for clemency 188772
Patrick Henry/Anti-Federalist 178873
P. Henry/need for Bill of Rights 74
Honest Graft/political machines75
Andrew Jackson criticism 182876
Jackson/war on bank 183277
Jackson/denounces Nullification 183278
Jackson’s farewell address 183779-80
Jay’s Treaty excerpt (pre-1812)81
T Jefferson/1st Inaugural address 180182-84
JFK/New Frontier (as Senator)85
J Rockefeller/defense of business practices86
U Sinclair/The Jungle excerpt87
Kentucky Resolution (States’ Rights)/T Jefferson 179888
Knights of Labor/charter89-90
LBJ/Great Society91
A Lincoln 2nd Inaugural address 1865 (excerpt)92
A Lincoln responds to Greeley/slavery 186293
A Lincoln/House Divided 185894
Louisiana Purchase/congressional debate95-96
Lowell’s Mill/rules & regulations97-99
Magna Carta 1215100-101
Mahan/Influence of Sea Power102
Mayflower Compact 1620103
McKinley/speech accepting nom. (gold standard) 1896104
McKinley/annexation of Philippines 1898105
Black Migrants/Great Migration 1917106
Monroe Doctrine/message to Congress 1823107-108
Naturalization Act 1798109
Opposition to WWI/Senator Norris110-111
Open Door Policy 1899112-113
Thomas Paine/Common Sense 1775114-115
Pendleton Civil Service Act 1883116
W Penn/forms of gov’t. in PA 1682117
Plessy v. Ferguson/majority opinion 1896118
Populist Platform 1892119
Populist Platform II 1896120-123
Whittaker Chambers/Hiss Case 1952124
J Edgar Hoover/Communists in Hollywood 1947125
McCarthy/Communism press release126
McCarthy attacks Marshall 1951127
Rhode Island counterpoint to KY/VA Res.128
Jacob Riis/How the Other Half Lives (excerpt)129
Stamp Act Riots/Boston reaction 1765130-131
Stamp Act riots/New York City reaction 1765132-133
Pullman Railroad Strike 1877134
Schenk v. U.S. 1917 (Maj. opinion excerpt)135-136
Seneca Falls Declaration 1848137-140
Triangle Shirtwaist survivors account 1911141-142
Social Gospel 1907143
Socialist Platform 1908144
Spoils System defense 1877145
TR/Square Deal146
Stamp Act grievance 1765147-148
Wilson response to Sussex sinking 1916149
Sweatshop conditions150
Trail of Tears/Baptist missionary account 1838151-152
Thoreau on J Brown 1859153
Maryland Toleration Act 1649154
TR/Muckrakers 1906155
Uncle Tom’s Cabin/H B Stowe (excerpt) 1852156
TR/insistence for meat inspection act157
Treaty of Paris/disputed terms 1883158
Turner/Frontier thesis (excerpt)159
utopia/Brook Farm 1844 (letters)160-161
Fullbright/anti-vietnam162
JFK to Diem letter 1961163
LBJ defense of Vietnam Policy I 164
LBJ defense of Vietnam Policy II 1965165
LBJ policy discussion/Vietnam166-167
Gulf of Tonkin/LBJ address to Congress 1964168
Gulf of Tonkin resolution 1964169
War Powers Act 1973170-173
Clay endorses war/warhawks 1811174
Proclamation of Neutrality 1793175
Watergate/recorded conversations 1974 (submitted to House)176
Watergate/Articles of Impeachment177-180
Webster/Hayne debates181
Wilson/war message 1917182-187
Witchcraft trials/testimony 1692188-190
Witchcraft trials/Ann Putnam deposition 1692 191
Nat’l. Consumers League role in Muller v. Oregon 1908192
Worker rules 1883193
Atlantic Charter 1941194
Moscow Conference 1943195-197
Potsdam Conference 1945198-210
Yalta Conference 1945211-216
Dec. of War/Germany (WWII) 1941217
Dec. of War/Japan (WWII) 1941218
FDR/Day of Infamy speech 1941219
Neutrality Acts 1939220-223
Quarantine Act/FDR224-227
Chicago Riots/1968228
Zimmerman Telegram229
Executive Order 10730/Desegregation (Little Rock, AR) 1957230-231
De Lome letter 1898232-233
Platt Amendment234-235
John Brown’s final address 1859236
Crittendon Compromise 1860237-239
Vanzetti’s final statement to Court 1927240-241
Targeting Memo/A-Bomb 1945242-247
Suffrage passes Senate/NYT article 1919248-253
Germans use poison gas/NYTribune article 1915254-255
Poison gas/article in support of 1915256
W.E.B. DuBois/support for women’s suffrage 1912257-258
U.S. v. New York Times/Pentagon Papers 1971 (majority opinion)259-261
Lend-Lease Act 1940262-263
Rudyard Kipling/White Man’s Burden 1899264-265
Booker T. Washington/Atlanta Exposition address 1895266-267
MLK/Letter from a Birmingham Jail268-274
RFK on MLK’s assassination275-276
Balfour Declaration 1917277
British seek Arab support in WWI 1915278
Eisenhower Doctrine/Middle East policy 1957279-282
Soviet response to Eisenhower Doctrine/TASS article 1957283-286
Lincoln/1st Inaugural address 1861287-293

Source: Alien Act, 25 June 1798.
SEC. 1 Be it enacted . . .That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States at any time during the continuance of this act, to order all such aliens as he shall judge dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States, or shall have reasonable grounds to suspect are concerned in any treasonable or secret machinations against the government thereof to depart out of the territory of the United States, within such time as shall be expressed in such order, which order shall be served on such alien by delivering him a copy thereof, or leaving the same at his usual abode, and returned to the office of the Secretary of State, by the marshal or other person to whom the same shall be directed. And in case any alien, so ordered to depart, shall be found at large within the United States after the time limited in such order for his departure, and not having obtained a license from the President to reside therein, or having obtained such license shall not have conformed thereto, every such alien shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three years, and shall never after be admitted to become a cities of the United States.
Source: The Alien Enemies Act, July 6, 1798
Section 1: Be it enacted . . . That whenever there shall be a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government . . . all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies.

Source: Debate over the constitutionality of the proposed national bank, Alexander Hamilton.
It is conceded that implied powers are to be considered as delegated equally with express ones. Then it follows, that as a power of erecting a corporation may as well be implied as any other thing, it may well be employed as an instrument or mean of carrying into execution any of the specified powers, as any other instrument or mean whatever. . . .
It is objected that none but the necessary and proper means are to be employed; and the Secretary of State maintains that no means are to be considered as necessary but those without which the grant of power would be nugatory. . . .
It is certain that neither the grammatical nor popular sense of the term requires that construction. According to both, necessary often means no more than needful, requisite, incidental, useful, or conducive to. . . .
If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority . . . A bank has a natural relation to the power of collecting taxes - to that of regulating trade - to that of providing for the common defense. . . .[Therefore] the incorporation of a bank is a constitutional measure.

Source: Andrew Johnson Offers Amnesty to former rebels, 1861
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - A PROCLAMATION.
I ______do solemnly swear (or affirm), in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder, and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the emancipation of slaves. So help me God.
The following classes of persons are excepted from the benefits of this proclamation:
First. All who are or shall have been pretended civil or diplomatic officers or otherwise domestic or foreign agents of the pretended Confederate government.
Second. All who left judicial stations under the United States to aid the rebellion.
Third. All who shall have been military or naval officers of said pretended Confederate government above the rank of colonel in the army or lieutenant in the navy.
Fourth. All who left seats in the Congress of the United States to aid the rebellion.
Fifth. All who resigned or tendered resignations of their commissions in the Army or Navy of the United States to evade duty in resisting the rebellion.
Sixth. All who have engaged in any way in treating otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of war persons found in the United States service as officers, soldiers, seamen, or in other capacities.
Seventh. All persons who have been or are absentees from the United States for the purpose of aiding the rebellion.
Eighth. All military and naval officers in the rebel service who were educated by the Government in the Military Academy at West Point or the United States Naval Academy.
Ninth. AU persons who held the pretended offices of governors of States in insurrection against the United States.
Tenth. All persons who left their homes within the jurisdiction and protection of the United States and passed beyond the Federal military lines into the pretended Confederate States for the purpose of aiding the rebellion.
Eleventh. All persons who have been engaged in the destruction of the commerce of the United States upon the high seas and all persons who have made raids into the United States from Canada or been engaged in destroying the commerce of the United States upon the lakes and rivers that separate the British Provinces from the United States.
Twelfth. All persons who, at the time when they seek to obtain the benefits hereof by taking the oath herein prescribed, are in military, naval, or civil confinement or custody, or under bonds of the civil, military, or naval authorities or agents of the United States as prisoners of war, or persons detained for offenses of any kind, either before or after conviction.
Thirteenth. All persons who have voluntarily participated in said rebellion and the estimated value of whose taxable property is over $20,000.
Fourteenth. All persons who have taken the oath of amnesty as prescribed in the President's proclamation of December 8, A.D. 1863, or an oath of allegiance to the Government of the United States since the date of said proclamation and who have not thenceforward kept and maintained the same inviolate.
Provided, That special application may be made to the President for pardon by any person belonging to the excepted classes, and such clemency will be liberally extended as may be consistent with the facts of the case and the peace and dignity of the United States.
The Secretary of State will establish rules and regulations for administering and recording the said amnesty oath, so as to insure its benefit to the people and guard the Government against fraud.

Source: Francis Parkman, "Some of the Reasons Against Women's Suffrage" (Albany, N.Y. Anti-Suffrage Association, 1905)
The man is the natural head of the family, and is responsible for its maintenance and order. Hence he ought to control the social and business agencies which are essential to the successful discharge of the trust imposed upon him . . .
Woman suffrage must have one of two effects. If, as many of its advocates complain, women are subservient to men, and do nothing but what they desire, then woman suffrage will have no other result than to increase the power of the other sex; if, on the other hand, women vote as they see fit, without regarding their husbands, then unhappy marriages will be multiplied and divorces redoubled . . .
But most women, including those of the best capacity and worth, fully consent that their fathers, husbands, brothers, or friends, shall be their political representatives . . .
Nothing is more certain that that women will have the suffrage if they ever want it; for when they want it, men will give it to them regardless of consequences.
Many women of sense and intelligence are influenced by the fact that the woman suffrage movement boasts itself a movement of progress, and by a wish to be on the liberal or progressive side. But the boast is unfounded. Progress, to be genuine, must be in accord with natural law. If it is not, it ends in failure and in retrogression. . . . To plunge [women] into politics, where they are not needed and for which they are unfit, would be scarcely more a movement of progress than to force them to bear arms and fight . . .
Neither Congress, nor the States, nor the united voice of the whole people could permanently change the essential relations of the sexes. Universal female suffrage, even if decreed, would undo itself in time; but the attempt to establish it would work deplorable mischief. The question is, whether the persistency of a few agitators shall plunge us blindfold into the most reckless of all experiments; whether we shall adopt this supreme device for developing the defects of women, and demolish their real power to build an ugly mockery instead. For the sake of womanhood, let us hope not . . . Let us save women from the barren perturbations of American politics. Let us respect them; and, that we may do so, let us pray for deliverance from female suffrage.

Source: Jane Addams Links the Vote with Social Reform, 1906

. . . Insanitary housing, poisonous sewage, contaminated water, infant mortality, the spread of contagion, adulterated food, impure milk, smoke-laden air, ill-ventilated factories, dangerous occupations, juvenile crime, unwholesome crowding, prostitution and drunkenness are the enemies which the modern cities must face and overcome would they survive. Logically, its electorate should be made up of those who can bear a valiant part in this arduous contest, those who in the past have at least attempted to care for children, to clean houses, to prepare foods, to isolate the family from moral dangers, those who have traditionally taken care of that side of life which inevitably becomes the subject of municipal consideration and control as soon as the population is congested. To test the elector's fitness to deal with this situation by his ability to bear arms is absurd. These problems must be solved, if they are solved at all, not from the military point of view, not even from the industrial point of view, but from a third which is rapidly developing in all the great cities of the world-the human welfare point of view. . . .

Source: An AFL Perspective on Women in the Work Force

The invasion of the crafts by women has been a developing for years amid irritation and injury tot he workman. The right of the woman to win honest bread is accorded on all sides, but with craftsmen it is an open question whether this manifestation is of a healthy social growth or not.

The rapid displacement of men by women in the factory and workshop has to be met sooner or later, and the question is forcing itself upon the leaders and thinkers among the labor organizations of the land.

Is it a pleasing indication of progress to see the father, the brother and the son displaced as the bread winner by the mother, sister and daughter? . . .

The growing demand for female labor is not founded upon philanthropy, as those who encourage it would have sentimentalists believe; it does not spring from the milk of human kindness. It is an insidious assault upon the home; it is the knife of the assassin, aimed at the family circle-the divine in- junction. It debars the man through financial embarrassment from family responsibility, and physically, mentally and socially excludes the woman equally from nature's dearest impulse. Is this the demand of civilized progress; is it the desire of Christian dogma? . . .

...The wholesale employment of women in the various handicrafts must gradually unsex them, as it most assuredly is demoralizing them, or stripping them of that modest demeanor that lends a charm to their kind, while it numerically strengthens the multitudinous army of loafers, paupers, tramps and policemen, for no man who desires honest employment, and can secure it, cares to throw his life away upon such a wretched occupation as the latter.

Source: The Destiny of a Race, Thomas Hart Benton,
Since the dispersion of man upon earth, I know of no human event, past or present, which promises a greater, a more beneficent change upon earth than the arrival of the van of the Caucasian race (the Celtic-Anglo-Saxon division) upon the border of the sea which washes the shore of eastern Asia. The Mongolian, or Yellow race, is there, four hundred million in number, spreading almost to Europe; a race once the foremost of the human family in the arts of civilization, but torpid and stationary for thousands of years. It is a race far above the Ethiopians, or Black - above the Malay, or Brown (if we must admit five races) and above the American Indian, or Red; it is a race far above these but still, far below the White; and, like all the rest, must receive an impression from the superior race whenever they come in contact. It would seem that the White race alone received the divine command, to subdue and replenish the earth, for it is the only race that has obeyed it - the only one that hunts out new distant lands, and even a New World, to subdue and replenish.
The van of the Caucasian race now top the Rocky Mountains, and spread down to the shores of the Pacific. Their presence in such a position cannot be without its influence upon eastern Asia. The sun of civilization must shine across the sea: socially and commercially, the van of the Caucasians, and the rear of the Mongolians, must intermix. They must talk together, and trade together, and marry together. Moral and intellectual superiority will do the rest: the white race will take the ascendant, elevating what is susceptible of improvement - wearing out what is not. The Red race has disappeared from the Atlantic coast: the tribes that resisted civilization, met extinction. This is a cause of lamentation with many. For my part, I cannot murmur at what seems to be effect of divine law. I cannot repine that this Capital has replaced a wigwam. This Christian people, replaced the savages - white matrons, the red squaws. Civilization, or extinction has been the fate of all people who have found themselves in the track of advancing Whites.