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Primary Source Publications 1800-1864

Adams, Stephen.  A Bill for the Relief of Jose Carxillo.  [Washington, DC:  1845].  Call Number:  KZ239 1845 A33.

Adams, Stephen.  Jose Caxillo:  To Accompany Bill H.R. No. 318.  [Washington, DC:  Richie & Heiss, 1846].  Mississippi land tenure.  Call Number:  HD1251 A33 1846.

Adams, Stephen.  Speech of Hon. S. Adams, of Mississippi, on the Bill to Amend the Naturalization Laws, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the 16th June.  Washington, DC;  Organ Office Print, 1856.  Call Number:  JK1814 A21.

Address to the People of Mississippi, by the Committee Appointed by the State Rights' Convention Assembled at Jackson, May 21, 1834.  Jackson, MS:  C.C. Mayson, 1834.  Call Number:  JK2391 S83 A83 1834.

Address to the People of Mississippi, by the Committee Appointed by the State Rights' Convention Assembled at Jackson, May 21, 1834.  Natchez, MS:  Courier and Journal Office, 1834.  Call Number:  JK2391 S83 A83 1834a.

Alcorn, James Lusk.  An Address to the People of Coahoma County, Mississippi, upon the Subject of Levees.  Memphis:  Bulletin Company, Cheap Book and Job Printers, 1858.  Call Number:  TC425 M66 M7a.

Appendix to the Congressional Globe.  [Washington, DC]:  Ritchie & Heiss, 1845.  Includes "Message of the President," "Report of the Secretary of the Treasury," and "Report of the Secretary of War."  Call Number:  E415.7 A67 1845.

Arthur, A.H., Wm. A. Lake, and John R. Yergus.  Memorial of Citizens of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Praying an Examination of that Place, with a View to the Selection of a Site for a Naval Depot and National Armory.  [Washington, DC:  1844].  Call Number:  VA70 V53 A78 1844.

Atkinson, James R. ed.  Records of the Old Southwest in the National Archives:  Abstracts of Records of the Chickasaw Indian Agency and Related Documents, 1794-1841.  [Mississippi State, MS]:  Cobb Institute of Archeology, Mississippi State University, 2005.  Call Number:  E99 C55 A85 2005.

Aughey, John H.  The Iron Furnace:  or, Slavery and Secession.  By Rev. John H. Aughey, a Refugee from Mississippi.  Philadephia:  W.S. & A. Martien, 1863.  Call Number:  E458.7 A9.

Austin, Ivers James.  An Account of the Origin of the Mississippi Doctrine of Repudiation; with a Review of the Arguments which His Excellency Alexander G. McNutt, Late Governor of Mississippi, Advanced in Its Vindication.  Boston:  Bradbury, Soden, 1842.  Call Number:  HJ8372 A2.

Bank of Mississippi.  Charter of the Bank of the State of Mississippi.  By an Act Passed on the 23d of December 1809, and an Act Supplemental Thereto, Passed on the 4th Day of February, 1818.  Natchez, MS:  Richard C. Langdon, 1818.  Call Number:  HF2411 M7 B3.

Barnard, Frederick A.P.  Gratitude Due for National Blessings; A Discourse Delivered at Oxford, Mississippi, on Thanksgiving Day, November 20, 1856.  Memphis:  Bulletin Co., 1857.  Author was the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi.  Call Number:  BV4305 B3 1857.

Barnard, Frederick A.P.  Letter to the President of the United States, by a Refugee.  New York:  C.S. Westcott, 1863.  Author was a former Chancellor of the University of Mississippi. Call Number:  E458.3 B258 1863.

Barrow, Alexander.  A Bill for Making an Appropriation for the Building of Barracks at Pass Christian.  [Washington, DC:  1845].  Call Number:  UC404 M7 B37 1845.

Barry, William S.  Civil and Religious Toleration:  Speech of William S. Barry, of Miss., Delivered in the House of Representatives, December 18, 1854.  [Washington, DC]:  Congressional Globe, [1854].  Call Number:  JK2341 A7 1854.

Beers, Henry Putney.  Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America.  Washington, DC:  National Archives and Records Administration, 1986.  Call Number:  CD3047 B4 1986.

Berry, Thomas Y.  To the Voters of Wilkinson, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Amite and Claiborne Counties.  Port Gibson, MS:  1853.  Call Number:  F341 B47 1853.

Black, John.  A Bill to Remove the Land Offices from Clinton to Jackson, in the State of Mississippi.  [Washington, DC:  1836].  Call Number:  HD243 M7 B53 1836 OVRS.

Boyd, Samuel Stillman.  Speech of Hon. Samuel S. Boyd, Delivered at the Great Union Festival, Held at Jackson, Mississippi, on the 10th Day of October, 1851.  Reported Especially for the Natchez Courier.  On the topic of slavery and secession.  Natchez, MS:  Natchez Courier, 1851.  Call Number:  E423 B78.

Brown, Albert Gallatin.  Address of Hon. Albert G. Brown:  Before the Members of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, November 8, 1859.  Washington, DC:  Lemuel Towers, 1959.  Call Number:  E440.5 B73 1859.

Brown, Albert Gallatin.  A Bill Supplemental to an Act to Confirm the Survey and Location of Claims for Lands in the State of Mississippi, East of the Pearl River and South of the Thirty-First Degree of North Latitude, Approved March Three, Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Five.  [Washington, DC:  1843].  Call Number:  TA522 M7 B76 1843.

Brown, Albert Gallatin.  Message of the Governor of Mississippi to the Senate and House of Representatives:  January Session, 1846.  Jackson, MS:  Price & Rohrer, [1846].  Call Number:  F341 B87 1846.

Brown, Albert Gallatin.  The Slave Question.  Speech of Mr. A.G. Brown, of Mississippi, in the House of Representatives, January 30, 1850, on the Subject of Slavery, and on the Action of the Administration in Relation to California and New Mexico.  [Washington:  Congressional Globe Office, 1850].  Call Number:  E338 B7 1850.

Brown, Albert Gallatin.  The Southern Movement -- Mississippi Politics:  Speech of Hon. A.G. Brown, of Mississippi, in the House of Representatives, March 14, 1852, on the Southern Movement and Mississippi Politics.  [Washington, DC]:  Congressional Globe Office, [1852].  Call Number:  E423 B872.

Brown, Albert Gallatin.  Speech of Hon. A.G. Brown, of Mississippi:  Delivered at Elwood Springs, near Port Gibson, Miss., November 2, 1850.  Washington:  Globe Office, 1850.  Call Number:  E423 B873 1850.

Brown, Albert Gallatin.  Speech of Hon. A.G. Brown, of Mississippi, in the House of Representatives, April 28, 1852, on the Homestead Bill.  [Washington, DC]:  Congressional Globe Office, [1852].  Call Number:  HD197 B7 1852.

Brown, Albert Gallatin.  Speech of Hon. A.G. Brown, of Mississippi, on the Bill to Authorize the People of the Territory of Kansas to Form a Constitution and State Government:  Preparatory to Their Admission into the Union, When They Have the Requisite Population:  Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 28, 1856.  Washington, DC:  Union Office, 1956.  Call Number:  F685 B869.

Brown, Albert Gallatin.  Speeches, Messages, and Other Writings of the Hon. Albert G. Brown, a Senator in Congress from the State of Mississippi.  Philadelphia:  J.B. Smith & Co., 1859.  Call Number:  E337.8 B85.

Brown, Albert Gallatin.  Speeches of Hon. Albert G. Brown, of Miss., in the Senate of the United States.  [Washington, DC:  1860].  Call Number:  E415.7 B7.

Brown, Albert Gallatin and W.R.W. Cobb.  A Bill to Grant a Quantity of Land to the State of Mississippi, for the Purpose of Improving the Navigation of Certain Rivers in that State.  Call Number:  GB1225 M7 B76 1848.

Brown, William J..  Woodson Wren:  To Accompany Bill H.R. No. 102.  [Washington, DC:  Blair & Rivers, 1844].  Right of property in Mississippi.  Call Number:  HB711 B76 1844.

Cassedy, Hiram and John J. Pettus.  Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi in Favor of a Grant of Land to Aid in the Construction of the New Orleans and New York Railroad.  [1854].  Call Number:  TF215 C373 1854.

Cassedy, Hiram and John J. Pettus.  Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi Praying that a Grant of Land Be Made to Aid in the Construction of the Mobile and New Orleans Railroad, and All Other Railroads Now in Progress in the State.  [1854].  Call Number:  TF215 C37 1854.

Cassedy, Hiram and John Jones Pettus.  Resolution of the Legislature of Mississippi in Favor of the Bill to Organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas.  [Washington, DC:  1854].  Call Number:  E438 C37 1854.

Circular:  To the Voters of the Eighth Judicial District.  [Holly Springs, MS:  1837].  Call Number:  KFM7125 C57 1837.

Claiborne, J.F.H.  Life and Correspondence of John A. Quitman:  Major-General, U.S.A., and Governor of the State of Mississippi.  New York:  Harper & Brothers, 1860.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  E403.1 Q8 C5.

Clapp, Jeremiah Watkins.  Public Addresses of Judge J.W. Clapp, 1839-1869.  [18--].  Call Number:  F341 C59.

Clark, William.  Report of Wm. Clark, Treasurer of the State of Mississippi.  [Jackson, MS:  1853].  Call Number:  HJ525 R47 1853.

Cobb, Joseph B.  Leisure Labors; or, Miscellanies Historical, Literary, and Political.  New York:  D. Appleton and Company, 1858.  Mississippi author.  Contains "The true issues between parties in the South: Union or disunion."  Call Number:  F342 C65 L4.

Confederate States of America.  President.  A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Confederacy, Including the Diplomatic Correspondence, 1861-1865.  Nashville, TN:  United States Publishing Company, 1905.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  E487 C746.

Confederate States of America.  President.  Inaugural Address of President Davis, Delivered at the Capitol, Monday, February 18, 1861, at 1 O'clock, P.M.  Montgomery, AL:  Shorter & Reid, 1861.  Call Number: E467.1 D26 A5 1861.

Confederate States of America.  House of Representatives.  Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi in Relation to the Recent Act of the Congress of the Confederate States Suspending the Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus.  [Richmond, VA:  1864].  Call Number:  E487 C755.

Davis, Jefferson.  Address, Delivered by Hon. Jefferson Davis, Before the Phi Sigma & Hermaen Societies, of the University of Mississippi, July 15, 1852.  Memphis:  Appeal Book and Job Office, 1852.  Call Number:  LD3416.2 D3.

Davis, Jefferson.  Inaugural Address of President Davis, Delivered at the Capitol, Monday, February 18, 1861, at 1 o'clock p.m.  Montgomery, AL:  Shorter & Reid Printers, 1861.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 A5 1861.

Davis, Jefferson.  A Bill for the Relief of Mary B. Dix.  [Washington, DC:  1849].  Call Number:  KZ239 1849 D38.

Davis, Jefferson.  A Bill Granting to the State of Mississippi the Right of Way, and a Donation of Public Lands for the Purpose of Locating and Constructing a Railroad from Brandon to the Eastern Border of Said State, in the Direction of Montgomery, Alabama.  [Washington, DC:  1849].  Call Number:  HE1064 M7 D38 1849.

Davis, Jefferson.  President's Message.  [Richmond, VA:  1863].  Call Number:  JK9719 D12/7.

Davis, Jefferson.  Relations of States.  Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 7th, 1860, on the Resolutions Submitted by Him on 1st of March, 1860.  Baltimore:  J. Murphy & Co., 1860.  Extension of slavery to the territories.  Call Number:  E438 D26 1860.

Davis, Jefferson.  Reply of Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, to the Speech of Senator Douglas, in the U.S. Senate, May 16 and 17, 1860.  [Baltimore:  Murphy & Co., 1860].  Call Number:  E440 B82 1860

Davis, Jefferson.  Speech of Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, on His Resolutions Relative to the Rights of Property in the Territories, Etc.  Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 7, 1860.  [Washington, DC]:  L. Towers, [1860].  Call Number:  E438 D26.

Davis, Jefferson.  Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, Delivered in the United States Senate, on the 10th Day of January, 1861, upon the Message of the President of the United States, on the Condition of Things in South Carolina.  Baltimore:  J. Murphey & Co., 1861.  Call Number:  E440.5 D26.

Davis, Jefferson.  Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, Delivered during the Summer of 1858.  Baltimore:  J. Murphy & Co., 1859.  Call Number:  E436 D26.

Davis, Jefferson.  Speech of Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, on the Exercise of Civil Power and Authority by Military Officers; Delivered in the U.S. Senate, August 5, 1950.  [Washington, DC:  1850].  Call Number:  E405.1 D26 1850.

Davis, Jefferson.  Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, on His Resolutions Relative to the Rights of Property in the Territories, Etc.  Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 7, 1860.  [Washington, DC]:  L. Towers, [1860].  Call Number:  E438 D26.

Davis, Jefferson.  Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, on the French Spoilation Bill:  Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January 6th and 10th, 1859.  Baltimore:  J. Murphy, 1859.  Call Number:  JX238 F75 1859a.

Davis, Jefferson.  Speech of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, on the Pacific Railroad Bill, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, January, 1859.  Baltimore:  J. Murphy & Co., 1859.  Call Number:  HE2763 1859c.

Davis, Jefferson.  Speech of Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories.  Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 13 & 14, 1850.  [Washington:  Towers, 1850].  Call Number:  E423 D26 1850. 

Davis, Jefferson.  Speech of Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, on the Subject of the Coast Survey of the United States:  Delivered in the Senate of the U.S., Monday, Feb. 19, 1849.  [Washington, DC]:  J & G.S. Gideon, [1849].  Call Number:  QB296 U85 1849b.

Davis, Jefferson.  Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, Delivered during the Summer of 1858.  Baltimore:  J. Murphy & Co., 1859.  Call Number:  E436 D26.

Davis, John Wesley.  Entries of Land:  To Accompany Bill H.R. No. 344.  [Washington, DC:  1844].  Indian land transfers in Mississippi.  Call Number:  E93 D28 1844.

Davis, Reuben.  Speech of Hon. Reuben Davis, of Mississippi:  On the Bill Making Appropriations for the Army, Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 17, 1859.  Washington, DC:  1859.  Call Number:  HJ254 D3.

Davis, Reuben.  Speech of Hon. Reuben Davis, of Mississippi, on the State of the Union; in the House of Representatives, December 22, 1858.  Washington, DC:  Congressional Globe Office, 1858.  Call Number:  E436 D264.

Democratic Party (La.).  State Central Committee.  Campaign Document No. 2.  New Orleans:  Louisiana Courier, [1855].  Author was Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, former and future president of the University of Mississippi.  Call Number:  JK2341 A7 1855a L7.

Duane, William.  Mississippi Question:  Report of a Debate in the Senate of the United States on the 23d, 24th, & 25th February, 1803, of Certain Resolutions Concerning Violation of the Right of Deposit in the Island of New Orleans.  Philadelphia:  [1803].  Mississippi Territory and Spain.  Call Number:  F352 D8.

Duffield, J.M., et al.  Memorial of Citizens of Natchez, in Favor of Selecting that Place as the Site for a Naval Armory and Dry Dock.  [Washington, DC:  1843].  Call Number:  VA68 M7 M466 1843.

Dunbar, Joseph and Abram M. Scott.  Resolutions and Report of the Judiciary Committee:  Relative to the Rights of This State to Unappropriated Lands within Her Jurisdiction.  [Jackson, MS]:  1830.  Mississippi.  Call Number:  F341 D895 1830a OVRS.

Durant, Thomas Jefferson.  Letter of Thomas J. Durant to the Hon. Henry Winter Davis.  New Orleans:  [H.P. Lathrop], 1864.  Louisiana politics.  Call Number:  F375 D87 1864.

Elliott, E.N.  Cotton Is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments:  Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on This Important Subject...With an Essay on Slavery in the Light of International Law, by the Editor.  Augusta, GA:  Pritchard, Abbott & Loomis, 1860.  Call Number:  E449 E48.

Evans, Alexander.  A Bill Granting a Half Section of Land for the Use of Schools within Fractional Township Nineteen South, of Range Eighteen West, County of Lowndes, State of Mississippi.  [Washington, DC:  1848].  Call Number:  LB2827 E93 1848.

Farrar, C.C.S.  The War, Its Causes and Consequences.  Cairo, IL, Memphis, TN:  Blelock & Co., 1864.  Author was from Bolivar County, Mississippi.  Call Number:  E458.4 F24.

Featherston, Winfield Scott.  Speech of Hon. W.S. Featherston, of Mississippi, on Rivers and Harbors.  Washington:  J.T. Towers, 1851.  Call Number:  TC223 F397 1851.

Fendall, Philip Ricard.  An Argument on the Powers, Duties, and Conduct, of the Hon. John C. Calhoun, a Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate.  Washington, DC:  P. Force, 1827.  Call Number:  E340 C15 F39.

Foote, Henry S..  A Bill for the Relief of the Heirs and Legal Representation of Joseph McAffee, Deceased.  [Washington, DC:  1848].  Call Number:  KZ239 1848 F66.

Foote, Henry S.  Governor's Message.  [Jackson, MS:  1854].  Call Number:  F341 F66 1854.

Foote, Henry S.  Rev. Theobald Mathew:  Remarks of Hon. H.S. Foote, of Mississippi in the Senate, December 10, 1849, on the Resolution to Permit the Rev. Theobald Mathew to Sit Within the Bar of the Senate.  Diplomatic Relations with Austria; Remarks of Hon. H.S. Foote, of Mississippi, in the Senate, January 4, 1850, on the Resolution of Mr. Cass to Suspend Diplomatic Relations with Austria.  [Washington, DC]:  Congressional Globe Office, [1850].  Call Number:  E423 F66 1849.

Foote, Henry S.  Texas and Texans; or, Advance of the Anglo-Americans to the South-west; Including a History of Leading Events in Mexico, from the Conquest of Fernando Cortes to the Termination of the Texan Revolution.  Philadelphia:  Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1841.  Mississippi author.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  F389 F68.

Foote, Henry S.  The War with Mexico:  Speech of Hon. Henry S. Foote, of Mississippi, in the Senate of the United States, January 19 & 20, 1848, on the Bill Reported from the Committee on Military Affairs to Raise, for a Limited Time, an Additional Military Force.  [Washington, DC]:  Congressional Globe Office, [1848].  Call Number:  E407 F6.

B.F. French.  Historical Collections of Louisiana, Embracing Translation of Many Rare and Valuable Documents Relating to the Natural, Civil and Political History of the State.  New York:  Wiley and Putnam, 1846-1853.  Five volumes.  Mississippi was part of the Louisiana administrative district under France.  Call Number:  F366 F87.

Gayle, John.  A Bill to Extend the Provisions of an Act of the Third of March, Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Five, Entitled "An Act to Confirm the Survey and Location of Claims for Lands in the State of Mississippi, East of Pearl River and South of the Thirty-First Degree of North Latitude" to the District West of Pearl River.  [Washington, DC:  1849].  Call Number:  TA545 G935 1849.

Graffennid, M.F. de and A.M. Scott.  Memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Mississippi Praying an Amendment to the Act of the Last Session of Congress, Granting Pre-emption Rights to Settlers on Public Lands.  [Washington, DC:  1831].  Call Number:  HD197 G73 1831.

Graves, Richard Stanford.  Richard S. Graves to the People of Mississippi: A Defense by the Author of His Conduct as to Certain State Funds While Treasurer of the State of Mississippi. [1843]. Call Number:  HJ529 G8

Hall, James.  "A Brief History of the Mississippi Territory, to Which Is Prefixed, a Summary View of the Country between the Settlements on Cumberland-River & the Territory." Original 1801 publication reprinted in Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society Vol. 9 (1906).  Call Number:  F341 H17.

Harris, Wiley Pope.  Speech of Hon. W.P. Harris, of Mississippi, on the Nebraska and Kansas Bill:  Delivered in the House of Representatives, April 24, and 26, 1854.  Washington, DC:  Congressional Globe Office, 1854.  Call Number:  E443 H3 1854.

Howard, V.E. and A. Hutchinson.  The Statutes of the State of Mississippi of a Public and General Nature, with the Constitutions of the United States and of This State:  And an Appendix Containing Acts of Congress Affecting Land Titles, Naturalization, &c. and a Manual for Clerks, Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace.  New Orleans:  E. Johns & Co., 1840.  Call Number:  KFM6630 1840 A23.

Houston, George S..  Land Sales at Chocchuma and Columbus:  To Accompany Bill H.R. No. 63.  [Washington, DC:  Blair & Rives, 1844].  Indian land trasfers in Mississippi.  Call Number:  E93 H68 1844.

Hudson, Thomas J..  Address of Hon. Thomas J. Hudson of Marshall County, at the Agricultural Fair, Jackson, November 9th, 1858.  Jackson:  E. Barksdale, 1858.  Call Number:  S555 H8.

Humphreys, Benjamin G.  The Autobiography of Benjamin Grubb Humphreys (1808-1882).  [Oxford, MS:  1934].  Humphreys served in the Mississippi Senate from 1839 to 1844.  Call Number:  E664 H92 A3 1934.

Hutchinson, A.  Manual of Juridicial, Ministerial and Civil Forms, Revised, Americanized and Divested of Useless Verbiage:  Comprising the Process, Proceedings and Entries before Justices of the Peace, and in the Inferior, Superior and Appellate Courts of Mississippi, with Illustrations of the Author's System of Opening and Conducting the Clerk's Offices; Also, Conveyances, Mortgages, Trusts, and the Various Instruments in Popular Use.  Jackson, MS:  Barksdale & Jones, 1852.  Call Number:  KFM6668 H8 1852.

Important Documents, Concerning Texas and the Controversy between General T.J. Chalmers and Messrs. Wilson and Postlethwaite.  Natchez, MS:  Courier & Journal Office, 1836.  Call Number:  F390 T4.

Jennings, Dudley S.  Nine Years of Democratic Rule in Mississippi:  Being Notes upon the Political History of the State, from the Beginning of the Year 1838, to the Present.  Jackson, MS:  T. Palmer, 1847.  Call Number:  JK4625 1847 J4.

Guy Carleton Kraus.  Mississippi Obsolete Bank Notes, Post Notes, Scrip and Government Issues.  [Mississippi]:  G.C. Kraus, [1996].  Call Number:  HG627 M7 K73 1996.

Lamar, L.Q.C.  Remarks of Hon. Lucius Q.C. Lamar, of Mississippi, on the Ohio Contested Election Case:  Delivered in the House of Representatives, May 22, 1858.  Washington, DC:  Congressional Globe Office, 1858.  Call Number:  KFO420 L36 1858.

Lamar, L.Q.C.  The Slavery Question:  Speech of Hon. L.Q.C. Lamar, of Miss., in the House of Representatives, February 21, 1860.  [Washington, DC]:  T. McGill, [1860].  Call Number:  E438 L885 1860.

Laws of the State of Mississippi:  Passed at a Called Session of the Mississippi Legislature Held in Macon, August, 1864.  Meridian, MS:  J.J. Shannon & Co. Printers, 1864.  Call Number:  KFM6630 1857 A233.

Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin.  Know Nothingism Unveiled.  Letter of Judge A.B. Longstreet, of Mississippi, Addressed to Rev. William Winans, in Reply to a Communication Published by Him in the Natchez (Mississippi) Courier, and Addressed to Judge Longstreet, on the Subject of Know Nothingism.  [Washington, DC:  Congressional Globe, 1855].  Call Number:  JK2341 A7 1855a.

Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin.  A Voice from the South:  Comprising Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts, and to the Southern States.  With an Appendix Containing an Article from the Charleston Mercury on the Wilmot Proviso.  Baltimore:  Western Continent Press, 1847.  Author was president of the University of Mississippi.  Politics and slavery.  Call Number:  E416 L85.

Primary Source Publications 1800-1864

Madison, James.  The Papers of James Madison:  Purchased by Order of the Congress, Being His Correspondence and Reports of Debates during the Congress of the Confederation, and His Reports of Debates in the Federal Convention; Now Published from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State.  Washington, DC:  Langtree & O'Sullivan, 1840.  Three volumes.  L.Q.C. Lamar's personal copy with his inscription.  Call Number:  JK111 M23.

Marsh, James R. et al.  Petition of the Citizens of Mississippi, Remonstrating against Indian Claims.  [Washington, DC:  1836].  Call Number:  E93 P48 1836.

Matthews, Joseph W.  Message:  Fellow Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives.  [Jackson, MS:  1850].  Author was Governor of Mississippi.  Call Number:  F341 M38 1850.

McRae, John J.  Address of Hon. John J. McRae of Mississippi, Announcing the Death of Hon. John A. Quitman; Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 5, 1859.  Washington, DC:  Congressional Globe Office, 1859.  Call Number:  E403.1 Q8.

McRae, John J.  Inaugural Address of John J. McRae, Governor of Mississippi.  Jackson, MS:  Barksdale and Jones, [1854].  Call Number:  JK4651 M73 1854.

McRae, John J..  Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi, Related to the Importation of Adulterated Medicines and Chemicals.  [Tippin & Streeper, 1848].  Call Number:  HD9665.9 U6 M37 1848.

McRae, John J..  Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi, Relative to the Location of Other Sections in Addition to Valueless Sixteenth Sections, and the Relinquishment of Others, with the Privilege of a Re-location.  [Tippin & Streepter, 1848].  Call Number:  LB2827 M37 1848. 

Memorial of the Choctaw Citizens of the State of Mississippi to the Congress of the United States.  [Washington, DC]:  1841.  Call Number:  E99 C8 M46 1840.

Memorial of Sundry Citizens of Mississippi:  Complaining of Certain Disadvantages Growing out of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, with the Choctaw Indians and Praying Redress.  [Washington, DC:  Government Printing Office], 1836.  Call Number:  E99 C8 M45 1836.

Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi Asking a Grant of Land for the New Orleans and Jackson Railroad.  [Washington, DC:  1852].  Call Number:  TF208 M462 1852.

Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi Asking An Appropriation to Remove a Sand Bar from the Mouth of the Pascagoula River.  [Washington, DC:  1852].  Call Number:  GB1225 M7 M466 1852. 

Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi for a Donation of Public Lands to the New Orleans and Jackson Railroad.  [Washington, DC:  1852].  Call Number:  TF208 M463 1852.

Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi Praying the Establishment of a Custom-House at Biloxi, and Also for the Delivery of the Mail Twice a Week between Biloxi and New Orleans, and Intermediate Places, and a Weekly Mail from Jackson to Mobile.  [Washington, DC:  1852].  Call Number:  NA4462 M7 M46 1852.

Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi Praying the Establishment of a Port of Entry at Biloxi, and Additional Mail Facilities at that Place.  [Washington, DC:  1852].  Call Number:  TC224 M7 M46 1852. 

Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi Praying the Reduction of the Price of Land in Augusta and Washington Land Districts.  [Washington, DC:  1852].  Call Number:  HD243 M7 M46 1852.

Mercer, Charles Fenton.   Mr. Mercer, from the Committee on Roads and Canals, to Which Had Been Referred the Bill from the Senate Entitled "An Act to Relinquish to the State of Mississippi the Two Per Cent Fund Accruing by the Act for the Admission of Said State into the Union," Reported the Same with the Following Amendment.  [Washington, DC:  1839].  Call Number:  HE2231 M47 1839.

Military Despotism:  Arbitrary Arrest of a Judge!  [New York]:  Loyal Publication Society, 1863.  Call Number:  E458.3 M55 1863.

Mississippi.  Laws of the State of Mississippi.  [Jackson, MS:  1823 -- present).  Call Number:  KFM6606.

Mississippi.  Statutes of the Mississippi Territory:  the Constitution of the United States, with the Several Amendments thereto; the Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio:  The Articles of Agreement and Cession, between the United States and the State of Georgia:  And Such Acts of Congress as Relate to the Mississippi Territory.  Digested by the Authority of the General Assembly.  Natchez:  P. Isler, 1816.  Call Number:  KFM6630 1816 A22

Mississippi.  Constitutional Convention (1817).  Letter from His Excellency David Holmes, Governor of the State of Mississippi, Transmitting a Copy of the Constitution and Form of Government of the Said State.  Washington, MS:  E. De Kraft, 1817.  Call Number:  JK4625 1817 A52 1817.

Mississippi.  Constitutional Convention (1851).  Journal of the Convention of the State of Mississippi, and the Act Calling the Same; with the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Fairwell Address.  Jackson, MS:  Conventioner Printer, 1851.  Call Number:  JK4625 1851 A25.

Mississippi.  Convention (1861).  Journal of the State Convention, and Ordinances and Resolutions Adopted in January, 1861.  With an Appendix.  Jackson, MS:  E. Barksdale, State Printers, 1861.  Call Number:  JK9788 A15 1861.

Mississippi Convention (1861).  Journal of the State Convention, and Ordinances and Resolutions Adopted in March, 1861.  Jackson, MS:  E. Barksdale, State Printers, 1861.  Call Number:  JK9788 A15 1861c.

Mississippi.  General Assembly.  The Charter, and Amendments Thereto, of the Planters' Bank, of the State of Mississippi.  Jackson, MS:  1833.  Call Number:  HG2611 M7 P43 1833.

Mississippi.  General Assembly.  House of Representatives.  Journals of General Assembly of the Mississippi Territory:  Journal of the House of Representatives, Second General Assembly, Second Session, October 3 -- November 19, 1803.  Hattiesburg, MS:  Book Farm, 1940.  Call Number:  Z1302 H4 no. 55.

Mississippi.  General Assembly.  House of Representatives.  Letter from Cowles Mead, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Mississippi Territory, Enclosing a Copy of a Presentment against Harry Toulmin, Judge of the Superior Court for the Washington District in Said Territory, Made by the Grand Jury of Baldwin County, December 16th, 1811; Ordered to Lie on the Table.  Washington:  R.C. Weightman, 1811.  Call Number:  F341 L47 1811.

Mississippi.  General Assembly.  House of Representatives.  Report of the Committee on the Representation of the House of Representatives of the Mississippi Territory.  [MS:  1801].  Call Number:  KFM7021 A25 M57 1801.

Mississippi.  General Assembly.  Legislative Council.  Journals of the General Assembly of the Mississippi Territory:  Journal of the Legislative Council, Second General Assembly, Second Session, October 2 -- November 19, 1803.  Hattiesburg, MS:  Book Farm, 1940.  Call Number:  Z1302 H4 no. 54.

Mississippi.  General Assembly.  Legislative Council.  Journals of the General Assembly:  Journal of the Legislative Council, Third General Assembly, Third Session, December 2-29, 1805.  Beauvoir Community, MS:  Book Farm, 1947.  Call Number:  Z1302 H4 no. 73.

Mississippi.  Legislature.  An Act to Incorporate the Lake Washington and Deer Creek Rail-Road Company.  [Jackson, MS:  1836].  Call Number:  HE2791 L353 A38 1836.

Mississippi.  Legislature.  Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, upon the Subject of the Lands Acquired by Treaty from the Choctaw Nation of Indians.  [Washington, DC]:  1832.  Call Number:  HD243 M7 M577 1832.

Mississippi.  Legislature.  Resolution of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Mississippi Territory, Relative to the Propositions of the British Minister at Ghent.  January 21, 1815.  Washington, DC:  Roger C. Weightman, 1815.  Call Number:  E13 U5 v.6 no.43.

Mississippi.  Legislature.  Resolution of the Legislature of Mississippi in Favor of Graduating and Reducing the Price of Public Lands.  [Washington, DC:  1846].  Call Number:  HD243 M7 R47 1846.

Mississippi.  Legislature.  Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi:  Complaining of the Disadvantages Resulting from Certain Reservations of Land to Choctaw Indians, under the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek:  And Praying Such Title, When Originating in Fraud, May Not Be Confirmed.  Gales & Seaton, [1836].  Call Number:  E99 C8 M58 1836.

Mississippi.  Legislature.  Senate.  Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi, on the Subject of Slavery and the Questions in Controversy between the Northern and Southern States Growing out of that Institution.  May 8, 1850.  [Jackson, MS]:  1850.  Call Number:  E445 M6 M5 1850.

Mississippi.  Legislature.  Committee on the Judiciary.  Resolutions and Report of the Judiciary Committee:  Relative to the Rights of the State to Unappropriated Lands within Her Jurisdiction.  [Jackson, MS]:  1830.  Call Number:  F341 D895 1830a OVRS.

Mississippi State Bar Association.  Memorial of the Bar Association of the State of Mississippi:  February 21, 1825.  Washington, DC:  Gales & Seaton, 1825.  Courts.  Call Number:  KF322 M74 M46 1825.

North, Ralph.  A Treatise on the Law and Practice of the Probate Courts of Mississippi:  Comprising a Compilation of the Statutes of the State on the Subject of the Probate Courts, Last Wills and Testaments, Estates of Decedents, Infants and Persons Non Compos Mentis, Dower, and Partition of Lands...  Philadelphia:  Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., 1845.  Call Number:  KFM6744 N6.

Ordinances of the Town of Pass Christian:  Revised and Adopted at a Regular Meeting of the Board of Councilmen, Held on the Third Monday of April, A.D. 1858.  [Pass Christian:  Pass Christian Historical Society, 2003].  Original publication from 1858.  Call Number:  F349 P32 P37 1858a.

Political Portraits with Pen and Pencil:  Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi.  1850.  Call Number:  E415.9 T45 P64.

Prentiss, Seargent S.  Speech of Mr. Prentiss, on the Mississippi Contested Election.  Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, January 17, 1838.  Washington, DC:  Gales and Seaton, 1838.  Call Number:  JK1359 25th M7.

Quitman, John A.  Speech of Hon. John A. Quitman, of Mississippi, on the Bill to Increase the Army, Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 4, 1858.  Washington, DC;  Congressional Globe Office, 1858.  Call Number:  UA23 Q85.

Quitman, John A.  Speech of John A. Quitman, of Mississippi, on the Subject of the Neutrality Laws:  Delivered in Committee of the Whole of the House on the State of the Union, April 29, 1856.  Washington, DC:  Union Office, 1856.  Call Number:  F1783 Q85.

Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi Asking an Appropriation of Land to Aid in the Construction of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad.  [Washington, DC:  1852].  Call Number:  TF208 R476 1852.

Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi in Favor of the Establishment of Certain Mail Routes in that State.  [1852].  Call Number:  HE6376 A1 M774 1852.

James D. Richardson.  A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Confederacy, Including Diplomatic Correspondence, 1861-1865; Published with the Permission of Congress.  Nashville:  United States Publishing Company, 1905.  Two volumes.  Call Number:  E487 C746.

Roberts, Robert W. and Jesse Speight.  Memorial of the Legislature of Mississippi, Praying a Grant of Land to the Inhabitants of the Chickasaw Cession in that State for the Use of Schools.  [MS:  1842].  Call Number:  LB2827 R64 1842.

Roberts, Robert W. and Jesse Speight.  Resolution of the Legislature of Mississippi, in Favor of the Speedy Adjustment of Claims to Land under the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.  [MS:  1842].  Indian land transfers.  Call Number:  E93 R64 1842.

Roberts, Robert W. and Jesse Speight.  Resolution of the Legislature of Mississippi, to Procure the Erection of a Light-House on St. Joseph's Island.  [MS:  1842].  Call Number:  VK1024 M7 R63 1842.

Roberts, Robert W. and Jesse Speight.  Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi, Adverse to the Bankrupt and Distribution Laws, the Establishment of a Protective Tariff, and the Incorporation of a National Bank.  [Washington, DC:  Thomas Allen, 1842].  Call Number:  HG181 R584 1842.

Roberts, Robert W. and Jesse Speight.  Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi, on the Subject of Regulating the Rate of Postage by the Federal Currency.  [MS:  1842].  Call Number:  HE6425 R63 1842.

Roberts, Robert W. and Jesse Speight.  Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi, on the Subject of the Right of Search, and the Case of the Brig Creole.  [MS:  Thomas Allen, 1842].  Slave trade.  Call Number:  KZ6578 R63 1842.

Robins, Thomas E. and W.C. Smedes.  An Inquiry into the Validity of the Bonds of the State of Mississippi:  Issued in Behalf of the Union Bank of Mississippi and Means of Payment.  New York:  H. Ludwig, 1847.  Call Number:  HG2611 M7 R6 1847.

Rowland, Dunbar, ed.  The Mississippi Territorial Archives, 1798-1804.  Nashville, TN;  Brandon Printing Co, 1905.  Executive journals of Governor Winthrop Sargent and Governor W.C.C. Claiborne.  Call Number:  F341 M62.

Rowland, Dunbar, ed.  Official Letter Books of W.C.C. Claiborne, 1801-1816.  Jackson, MS:  State Department of Archives and History, 1917.  Six volumes.  Claiborne served as Governor of the Mississippi Territory from 1801 to 1803. Call Number:  F374 C58.

Sargent, Winthrop.  Papers in Relation to the Official Conduct of Governor Sargent.  Published by Particular Desire of His Friends.  Boston:  Thomas & Andrews, 1801.  Call Number:  F341 S26 1801.

Sargent's Code:  A Collection of the Original Laws of the Mississippi Territory Enacted 1799-1800 by Governor Winthrop Sargent and the Territorial Judges.  Jackson, MS:  Historical Records Survey, 1939.  Call Number:  J87 M7 S3 OVRS.

Seraiah the Scribe.  Chronicles of the Fire-Eaters of the Tribe of Mississippi.  Brandon, MS:  Republican Office, 1853].  Humor in the service of southern secession.  Call Number:  JK2318 M73 1853.

Sharkey, William Lewis.  Judge Sharkey's Speech:  Delivered at the Union Meeting, in Vicksburg, on the Evening of the 8th October, 1850.  [Mississippi:  1850].  Call Number:  F341 S537 1850a.

Singleton, Otho R.  Speech of Hon. Otho R. Singleton, of Mississippi, on Resistance of Black Republican Domination; Delivered in the House of Representatives, December 19, 1859.  Washington, DC:  Congressional Globe Office, 1859.  Call Number:  E185.61 S53.

A Sketch of the Life of Jeff Davis, the Democratic Candidate for Governor by a Citizen of Mississippi.  Jackson:  Mississippi Power Press, 1851.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 S54 1851.

Smedes, W.C.  Letter of W.C. Smedes, Esq., Vicksburg, Miss., in Vindication of the Southern Confederacy.  Taken from the Richmond Enquirer, July 18, 1861.  Jackson, MS:  Power & Cadwallader, 1861.  Call Number:  E650 S54 1861.

Speight, Jesse.  In the Senate of the United States, December 16, 1845:  Agreeably to Notice, Mr. Speight Asked and Obtained Leave to Bring the Following Bill; Which Was Read Twice, and Referred to the Committee on Public Lands.  [Washington, DC:  1846].  Mississippi and Louisiana.  Call Number:  GB1227 P43 S64 1846.

Stockman, John R..  Memorial of Citizens of Natchez and Adams County, Miss., Asking the Location of a Contemplated Naval Depot and Armory at that Place.  [Blair & Rives, 1844].  Call Number:  VA68 M7 S76 1844.

The State of Mississippi, vs. Hezron A. Johnson:  Involving the Liability of the State of Mississippi for the Payment of the Bonds Issued for and on Account of the Mississippi Union Bank.  Opinion of the Judges, and Final Decision of the Cause.  Jackson, MS:  Thomas Palmer, 1853.  Call Number:  HG4948 M7 J59 1853.

Thayer, Eli.  Six Speeches, with a Sketch of the Life of Hon. Eli Thayer.  Boston:  Brown and Taggard, 1860.  Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts with strong anti-slavery views.  Call Number:  E436 T37.

Thibodeaux, Bannon Goforth.  A Bill Relating to the Collection of District of Pearl River, in the State of Mississippi.  [Washington, DC:  1848].  Call Number:  HE554 A7 T55 1848.

Thompson, Jacob.  Address of Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, to His Constituents.  Washington, DC:  J.T. Towers, 1851.  On the subject of the Compromise of 1850.  Call Number:  E423 T47.

Thompson, Jacob.  Address of Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, to His Constituents.  Jacinto, MS:  W.H. Jones, 1851.  Call Number:  E423 T472 1851.

Thompson, Jacob.  Increase of the Army:  Speech of Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Miss., Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 9, 1847, in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, on the Bill to Raise for a Limited Time an Additional Military Force, and for Other Purposes.  [Washington, DC]:  Blair & Rives, [1847].  Call Number:  E409 T56 1847.

Thompson, Jacob.  John Mullings:  To Accompany Bill H.R. No. 64.  [MS:  Blair & River, 1844].  Indian land transfers in Mississippi.  Call Number:  E93 T55 1844.

Thompson, Jacob.  Speech of Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, on the Civil and Diplomatic Bill, and the Presidential Election.  Delivered in the House of Representatives, July 21, 1848.  [Washington, DC]:  Towers, [1848].  Call Number:  E415.9 T45 S6 1848.

Thompson, Jacob.  Speech of Mr. Thompson, of Mississippi, on the Oregon Bill:  Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 30, 1845.  [Washington, DC:  1845].  Call Number:  F880 T36 1845.

Thompson, Jacob and George Frederick Holmes.  Address, Delivered on Occasion of the Opening of the University of the State of Mississippi:  In Behalf of the Board of Trustees, November 6, 1858/ by Hon. Jacob Thompson, M.C./Inaugural Address, Delivered on Occasion of the Opening of the University of the State of Mississippi, November 6, 1848/By George Fred'k Holmes, A.M., President of the University.  Memphis:  Franklin Book and Job Office, 1849.  Call Number:  LB41 T5.

Thompson, Jacob, Frederick P. Stanton, and Thomas Nixon Van Dyke.  Letters from the Hon. Jacob Thompson of Mississippi, and the Hon. Frederick P. Stanton of Memphis District, Tenn., Representatives in Congress, and a Letter from T. Nixon Van Dyke, Esq., on the Subject of the Southwestern Railroad.  Richmond: Shepherd and Colin, 1849.  Call Number:  HE2791 L992 1849b.

Thompson, Richard W.  Speech of R.W. Thompson, upon the Political Aspects of the Slavery Question:  Made at a Public Meeting of the People, in Terre-Haute, Indiana, on the 11th Day of August 1855.  Terre-Haute, IN:  Express Power-Press, 1855.  Call Number:  E433 T47.

Tocqueville, Alexis de.  Democracy in America.  Cambridge, MA:  Sever and Francis, 1863.  Second edition, translated by Henry Reeve.  Call Number:  JK216 T7 1863.

Totten, James L. and Jesse Speight.  Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, in Favor of a Reduction of the Price of the Public Lands in that State.  [MS:  1844].  Call Number:  HD243 M7 T67 1844. 

Totten, James L. and Jesse Speight.  Resolutions of the General Assembly of Mississippi, in Favor of the Extension of the Mail Route from Sheildsborough, in Hancock County, to Pass Christian, in Harrison County, and the Alteration of the Mail Route from Augusta to Biloxi.  [Washington, DC:  1844].  Call Number:  HE6376 A1 M773 1844. 

Totten, James L. and Jesse Speight.  Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi, in Reference to the Location of the Armory and Naval Depot.  [Washington, DC:  Blair & River, 1844].  Mississippi.  Call Number:  UF554 M7 T68 1844.

Toulmin, Harry.  The Magistrates' Assistant:  Being an Alphabetical Illustration of Sundry Legal Principles and Usages:  Accompanied with a Variety of Necessary Forms.  Compiled for the Use of the Justices of the Peace, in the Mississippi Territory, by the Honorable Harry Toulmin...  Natchez, MS:  Samuel Terrell, 1807.  Call Number:  KFM7120 T643 1807.

Union Safety Committee.  Celebration of Washington's Birth-Day at New-York, on the 22d of February, 1851.  New York:  Van Norden & Amerman, 1851.  Includes "The Oration of the Hon. Henry S. Foote." on pages 6-33.  Call Number:  E312.6 N56.

United States.  Board of Choctaw Commissioners.  Proceedings of the Board of Choctaw Commissioners:  Col. Claiborne's Statement.  [Natchez, MS:  1843].  Text is signed and dated John F.H. Claiborne, Natchez, Nov. 30th, 1843.  Call Number:  E99 U5.

United States.  Congress.  A Bill to Enable the People of the Mississippi Territory to Form a Constitution and State Government, and for the Admission of Such State into the Union on an Equal Footing with the Original States.  [Washington, DC:  1811].  Call Number:  F341 U558 1811.

United States.  Congress.  Mississippi Election.  [Washington, DC:  Thomas Allen, 1838].  Call Number:  JK1359 25th U5.

United States.  Congress.  Obituary Addresses on the Occasions of the Death of the Hon. John A. Quitman, of Mississippi, and of the Hon. Thomas L. Harris, of Illinois, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the 5th and 17th of January, 1859.  Baltimore:  John Murphy & Co., 1859.  Call Number:  F341 Q8 U5.

United States.  Congress.  Petition of a Number of Citizens of Mississippi, Praying Congress to Institute an Inquiry into the Claim of Choctaw Indians to Reservations under the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, January 21, 1837.  [Washington, DC]:  Gales and Seaton, 1837.  Call Number:  HD171 B2 P4 1837.

United States.  Congress.  House.  A Bill to Enable the People of the Mississippi Territory to Form a Constitution and State Government, and for the Admission of Such State into the Union on an Equal Footing with the Original States.  [Washington, DC:  1811].  Call Number:  F341 U558 1811.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Papers in Relation to the Official Conduct of Winthrop Sargent.  2d January 1801, Referred to the Committee Appointed on the 22d ultimo, to Enquire into the Official Conduct of Winthrop Sargent, Governor of the Mississippi Territory.  [Washington, DC:  1801].  Call Number:  F341 U5.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Petition of Cato West, and Others, on Behalf of Themselves and the Other Inhabitants of the Mississippi Territory:  With the Documents Accompanying the Same.  13th January, 1800.  [Philadelphia:  William Ross, 1800].  Call Number:  HE1064 M7 W47 1800.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee Appointed to Enquire into the Official Conduct of Winthrop Sargent, Governor of the Mississippi Territory:  19th February, 1801, Committed to a Committee of the Whole House, on Monday Next.  [Washington, DC]:  House of Representatives, [1801].  Call Number:  F341 U52 1801.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee Appointed to Inquire into the Expediency of Allowing an Additional Judge to the Mississippi Territory, to Reside in Madison County.  Washington, DC:  A. & G. Way Printers, 1810.  Call Number:  K2146 U556 1810.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee Appointed to Inquire into the Propriety of Admitting the Mississippi Territory into the Union as a Separate and Independent State:  January 19, 1811.  Washington, DC:  R.C. Weightman, 1811.  Call Number:  JK4616 U53 1811.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee of Claims, on the Petition of John Steele, Late Secretary of the Mississippi Territory.  Referred 9th November, 1804.  [Washington, DC]:  1804.  Call Number:  F343 S8.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee on Public Lands to Whom Were Referred, on the Twenty Fifth Ultimo, the Petition of Richard S. Bryan and George Brewer, Sen. of Washington County, in the Mississippi Territory:  March 18, 1806.  Read, and Ordered to Lie on the Table.  Washington, DC:  A. & G. Way, 1806.  Call Number:  HD243 M57 U5423 1806.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee on Public Lands to Whom Were Referred, on the Twenty Fifth Ultimo, the Petition of Richard S. Sparks, of the Mississippi Territory:  March 18, 1806.  Read, and Ordered to Lie on the Table.  Washington, DC:  A. & G. Way, 1806.  Call Number:  HD243 M57 U5422 1806.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee on Public Lands to Whom Were Referred...the Petitions:  Of the Mayor, Aldermen and Assistants of the City of Natchez, of the Board of Trustees of Jefferson College in the Mississippi Territory, and of William Dunbar, of the Said Territory.  March 4, 1806.  Read, and Referred to a Committee of the Whole House, on Monday Next.  Washington, DC:  A. & G. Way, 1806.  Call Number:  HD243 M7 M5.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee on the Public Lands, on the Petition of Samuel C. Young:  March 17th, 1810.  Read and Referred to a Committee of the Whole House, on Friday Next.  Washington, DC:  A. & G. Way, 1810.  Call Number:  HD243 U653 1810.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee on the Public Lands on the Petition of the Legislature of the Mississippi Territory and Petitions of Said Territory, Accompanying a Bill for Quieting and Adjusting Claims to Lands in the Mississippi Territory.  [Washington, DC]:  1816.  Call Number:  F341 R46 1816.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee on the Public Lands on the Petition of the Legislature of the Mississippi Territory and Petitions of Sundry Persons of Said Territory Praying Indulgence to Purchasers of Public Lands.  [Washington, DC:  1816].  Call Number:  HD243 M7 U6532 1810.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee on the Public Lands, on the Several Petitions of Richard Tervin, Samuel Mims, Edwin Lewis, Joseph Wilson and the Baptist Church at Salem, All of the Mississippi Territory:  January 7th, 1811.  Ordered to Be Printed by the House of Representatives.  Washington, DC:  R.C. Weightman, 1811.  Call Number:  HD243 M7 U6533 1811.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee to Which Was Referred a Memorial of a Convention of Delegates from Fifteen Counties in the Mississippi Territory Praying that the Said Territory May Be Admitted as a State Entire and Without Division:  Accompanied with a Bill for the Admission of the People of the Mississippi Territory into the Union, etc.  {Washington, DC:  1817].  Call Number:  JK4616 U532 1817.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee to Which Was Referred, on the 6th Instant, the Memorial of the Legislature of the Mississippi Territory, Praying for Admission into the Union as an Independent State.  [Washington, DC:  1815].  Call Number:  F341 M475.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee to Whom Was Referred on the 8th and 14th of November Last, the Memorials and Petitions of the Board of Trustees of Jefferson College, in the Mississippi Territory, and of William Dunbar, an Inhabitant of the Said Territory, Presented during the Present and at the Last Session, 7th February 1805.  Read, and Ordered to be Referred to a Committee of the Whole House Tomorrow.  1805.  Call Number:  HD211 M7 U5.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee to Which Was Referred, on the 9th Instant, the Memorial of the Legislature of the Mississippi Territory Praying for the Admission of Said Territory into the Union as an Independent State:  Made December 23, 1816.  [Washington, DC:  1816].  Call Number:  JK4616 U535 1816.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee to Whom Was Referred on the Ninth Ultimo, the Petition of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Assistants of the City of Natchez, in the Mississippi Territory of the United States.  [Washington, DC:  1803].  Call Number:  HD196 M5 U6 1803.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee to Whom Was Referred a Memorial of a Convention of Delegates from Fifteen Counites in the Mississippi Territory Praying that the Said Territory May Be Admitted as a State Entire and Without Division:  Accompanied with a Bill for Admission of the People of the Mississippi Territory into the Union, Etc.  [Washington, DC:  1817].  Call Number:  JK4616 U532 1817.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee to Whom Was Referred the Bill from the Senate Entitled "An Act Providing for the Indemnification of Certain Claimants of Public Lands in the Mississippi Territory."  March 15, 1814.  Read and Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on Thursday Next.  Washington, DC:  A. and G. Way, 1814.  Call Number:  HD243 B533 1814.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee on the Public Lands on the Petition of the Legislature of the Mississippi Territory and Petitions of Said Territory, Accompanying a Bill for Quieting and Adjusting Claims to Lands in the Mississippi Territory.  [Washington, DC]:  1816.  Call Number:  F341 R46 1816.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Report of the Committee on the Public Lands on the Petition of the Legislature of the Mississippi Territory and Petitions of Sundry Persons of Said Territory Praying Indulgence to Purchasers of Public Lands.  [Washington, DC:  1816].  Call Number:  HD243 M7 U6532 1810.

United States.  Congress.  House.  Committee on Indian Affairs.  Attach Part of Chickasaw County to Monroe County, Mississippi.  [Washington, DC:  1828].  Call Number:  E99 C55 U537 1828.

United States.  Congress.  Senate.  Obituary Addresses on the Occasions of the Death of the Hon. John A. Quitman, of Mississippi, and of the Hon. Thomas L. Harris, of Illinois, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the 5th and 17th of January, 1859.  Baltimore:  John Murphy & Co., 1859.  Call Number:  F341 Q8 U5.

United States.  Department of the Treasury.  Lands Entered at Augusta, Mississippi:  Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting the Information Required by a Resolution of the House of Representatives of the 1st Instant, in Relation to the Quantity of Land Entered at the Office at Augusta, in the State of Mississippi, from Its Establishment to the Year 1830.  [Washington, DC:  1836].  Call Number:  HD243 U5587 1836.

United States.  President (1825-1829:  Adams).  By the President of the United States:  In Pursuance of Law, I, John Quincy Adams, President of the United States, Do Hereby Declare and Make Known that a Public Sale Will Be Held at the Land Office at Washington, in the State of  Mississippi...  [Washington, DC:  1827].  Call Number:  HD243 M7 U558 1827.

United States.  President (1839-1837:  Jackson).  Message from the President of the United States, with Documents Relating to the Character and Conduct of Samuel Gwin.  [Washington, DC:  1837].  Samuel Gwin was register of the land office in Madison County, Mississippi.  Call Number:  HD171 A18 M7.

United States.  President (1801-1809: Jefferson).  A Topographical and Statistical Account of the Province of Louisiana:  Containing a Description of Its Soil, Climate, Trade, and Produce...&c.... Together with New and Interesting Particulars, Relative to the Indian Tribes:  To Which Is Annexed, a Copious Preface; and, the Recent Conventions, between the United States, and the French Republic.  Compiled by Different Individuals, Possessed of the Best Information, and from the Documents Communicated to Congress, by the President.  Baltimore:  Martin & Pratt, 1803.  Call Number:  F374 T6.

The United States Democratic Review.  [New York:  Lloyd & Campbell, 1856-1859].  Special Collections has vol. 41, no. 3 from 1858 with "Interior department report of Secretary [Jacob] Thompson" pp. 194-201 and "Biographical sketches, Hon. John Anthony Quitman, Member of Congress for Mississippi", pp. 202-207.  Call Number:  AP2 U6b

University of Mississippi.  Bureau of Governmental Research.  The Constitutions of Mississippi, as Originally Adopted.  University, MS:  1982.  Call Number:  KFM7001 A4 1982.

University of Mississippi.  Bureau of Governmental Research.  Inaugural Addresses of the Governors of Mississippi.  University, MS:  1980-1981.  Volume one contains 1890 to 1980.  Volume two contains 1817 to 1890.  Call Number:  F341 I53.

Walker, Robert J.  American Slavery and Finances.  London:  W. Ridgway, 1864.  Third edition.  Author was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1835-45) and a U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1845-59). "This present volume contains the various pamphlets published by me here during the last six months [dated London, 1 March 1864].  Call Number:  E458 W17

Walker, Robert J.  An Appeal for the Union, by Hon. Robert J. Walker...Letter First...June 28, 1862.  [Washington, DC:  H. Polkinhorn, 1862].  Photocopy.  Call Number:  E458.2 W24 1862.

Walker, Robert J.  An Appeal for the Union, Letter from the Hon. Robert J. Walker.  New York, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 1856.  [To] Hon. Charles Shaler and Others, Democratic Committee, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  [New York:  J.F. Trow, 1856].  Call Number:  E435 W183 1856.

Walker, Robert J.  Argument of Robert J. Walker, Esq. before the Supreme Court of the United States, on the Mississippi Slave Question, at January Term, 1841.  Involving the Power of Congress and of the States to Prohibit the Inter-State Slave Trade.  Philadelphia:  J.C. Clark, 1841.  Call Number:  E449 W185 1841.

Walker, Robert J.  Introductory Address of the Hon. R.J. Walker, of Mississippi, Delivered before the National Institute at Its April Meeting, 1844.  Washington, DC:  W.Q. Force, 1845.  Call Number:  Q11 S64 W35 1845

Walker, Robert J.  Jefferson Davis and Repudiation.  Letter of Hon. Robert J. Walker.  London:  William Ridgway, 1863.  Call Number:  E467.1 D26 W34.

Walker, Robert J..  Letter of Mr. Walker, of Mississippi, Relative to the Reannexation of Texas:  In Reply to the Call of the People of Carroll County, Kentucky, to Communicate His Views on that Subject.  Washington, DC:  Globe Office, 1844.  Call Number:  F390 W181 1844.

Walker, Robert J.  Letter of Hon. R.J. Walker, in Favor of the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln.  London, Sept. 30, 1864.  [New York:  1864].  Author was a U.S. Senator from Mississippi (1835-45) and a U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1845-59).  Special Collections copy is a photocopy.  Call Number:  E458.4 W18 1864.

Walker, Robert J.  An Outline of the Empire of the West; Including the United Kingdom, the United States, and the British Colonies, Shadowed in a Correspondence between the Hon. R.J. Walker...and Arthur Davies.  1852.  Call Number:  JN276 W3 1852.

Walker, Robert J.  Review of Our Finances, and of the Report of Hon. S.P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury.  [New York:  J.F. Trow, 1862].  Call Number:  HJ252 W13.

Walker, Robert J..  Speech of Mr. Walker, of Mississippi, in Senate, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1840, on the Bill to Provide for the Collection, Safe Keeping, Transfer, and Disbursement of the Public Monies.  New York:  Evening Post, [1840].  Call Number:  HJ250 W3 1840.

Walker, Robert J.  Speech of Rob't J. Walker, Esq.:  Delivered at the Union Meeting, Held in the City of Natchez on the First Monday of January, 1833.  Natchez, MS:  Wooster, 1833.  Call Number:  E384.3 W35 1833.

Walker, Robert J.  Speech of the Hon. Robert J. Walker, at Liverpool, England.  [Washington, DC:  Towers Printer, 1852].  Call Number:  HF1754 W18 1852.

Walker, Robert J.  Speech of the Hon. Robert J. Walker, Delivered March 1, 1850, in Favor of Pennsylvania, in the Case of the State of Pennsylvania vs. The Wheeling Bridge Company.  Published by Request of the Attorney General of the State, Chiefly from Notes of a Short Hand Reporter.  Philadelphia:  "The Pennsylvanian" Job Printing Office, 1850.  Call Number:  TG224 P4 W3.

Walker, Robert J..  Speech of Mr. Walker, of Mississippi:  Delivered in the United States Senate, May 20 and 21, in Secret Session on the Treaty for the Reannexation of Texas.  The Injunction of Secrecy Removed.  Washington, DC:  Globe Office, 1844.  Call Number:  F390 W19 1844. 

Walker, Robert J. and Arthur Davies.   An Outline of the Empire of the West; Including the United Kingdom, the United States, and the British Colonies, Shadowed in a Correspondence between Hon. R.J. Walker...and Arthur Davies.   1852.  Call Number:  JN276 W3 1852.

Walsh, Robert Jr. and James M'Henry.  The Jackson Wreath, or National Souvenir...A National Tribute, Commemorative of the Great Civil Victory Achieved by the People, through the Hero of New Orleans.  Containing a Biographical Sketch of General Jackson until 1829...With a Continuation until the Present Day, Embracing a View of the Recent Political Struggle.  Philadelphia: J. Maax, 1829.  Call Number:  E382 J15

[Ward, Samuel Dexter].  Remarks upon the Controversy Between the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of South Carolina.  By a Friend to the Union.  Boston:  W. Crosby & H.P. Nichols, 1845.  Politics and slavery.  Call Number:  F273 R38 1845.

Warden, David Bailie.  A Statistical, Political, and Historical Account of the United States of North America; from the Period of Their First Colonization to the Present Day.  Edinburgh:  A. Constable and Co., 1819.  Call Number:  E165 W25.

Williams, Loring S.  Family Education and Government; a Discourse in the Choctaw Language.  Boston:  Printed for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, by Crocker & Brewster, 1835.  Call Number:  LC37 W5.

Woodbridge, William.  Mr. Woodbridge Made the Following Report:  To Accompany Bill S.4.  [Washington, DC:  1844].  Mississippi survey.  Call Number:  HD211 M7 W66 1844.