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Collection Reference Number GLC01265.24
From Archive Folder Civil war loyalty pamphlets 
Title The dangers and duties of the hour: an address delivered at concert hall, Philadelphia, March 15 1866
Date 1866
Author Kelley, William D. (1814-1890)  
Document Type Pamphlet
Content Description Published by Chronicle Book and Job Print. Denounces president Andrew Johnson as an untrustworthy leader and one who easily pardons traitors, primarily Southern rebels. Includes a letter written to Kelley by Governor W.G. Brownlow of Tennessee as a testament of Johnson's betrayal of the Union.
Subjects Reconstruction  President  Treason  Confederate States of America  Pardon  Politics  Republican Party  Civil War  
People Kelley, William D (1814-1890)  Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875)  Brownlow, William Gannaway (1805-1877)  
Place written Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Theme Reconstruction; The Presidency; Government & Politics
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Additional Information Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 12, 1814; pursued classical studies; apprentice in a jewelry establishment 1828-1835; moved to Boston, Mass, in 1835 and was engaged as a journeyman jeweler; returned to Philadelphia in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1841 and practiced in Philadelphia, Pa.; deputy prosecuting attorney for the city and county of Philadelphia in 1845 and 1846; judge of the court of common pleas for Philadelphia 1846-1856; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1861, until his death in Washington, D.C., January 9, 1890; chairman, Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures (Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second Congresses), Committee on Ways and Means (Forty-seventh Congress), Committee on Manufactures (Fifty-first congress).
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945