North Carolina

Street Munroe asks Vice President Roosevelt for help to become a page in Congress.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-03-12

This partial page of the Augusta Chronicle contains a number of articles, including a report on the extradition of Charles C. Browne, repercussions against a lynching which occurred in North Carolina, and a divorce case.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-08

In a letter to the editor, Edward P. Moses states that the Senate Committee of Education will hear Senator John Houk’s bill providing for the collection, transcription, publication, and distribution of materials relating to Tennessee history on the following Monday. He discusses how many books on history were possible because of manuscript collections.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-23

Efforts from Democrats, particularly southern Democrats, to make personal attacks upon President Roosevelt, are unwise and have largely failed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07

President Roosevelt sits at his desk as a North Carolina man stands on a rug in the threshold. There is a picture of Grover Cleveland on the wall.

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Comments and Context

A very early cartoon by Clifford Kennedy Berryman, before the cartoonist switched from the Washington Post to his long-time perch at the Washington Star, depicts President Roosevelt startled, and evidently upset, by the presence of a Black man calling at his office.

Excerpts from an Interstate Commerce Commission publication listing the powers of railroad commissions in various U.S. states.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-19

Russell J. Coles tells Theodore Roosevelt his plan for assisting the war effort, since he has not succeeded in getting into the Army or Navy. Coles intends to reduce the high cost of living by increasing the supply of food and leather from sources which are now going to waste. He will identify sharks, rays, or other fish suitable either for eating or for the production of leather. Coles will go to North Carolina to study this question, and he plans to publish an article with his findings. He feels that having a doctorate would lend additional weight to his findings, and he asks Roosevelt if he would be able to help him acquire an honorary degree in order to advance this cause.

Collection

America

Creation Date

1917-06-04

Secretary of War Taft addresses the Republican Convention of North Carolina on a number of topics, highlighting the differences between the Republican and Democratic parties and arguing that the Republican party has better helped the southern states than the Democratic party has. Taft believes the South’s loyalty to the Democratic party comes largely from its historical affiliation, and encourages Republicans in the south to show that they are not merely a party of office-seekers, but that they are working to improve the state of the South as a whole.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-10

William H. Taft has the letter from Marion Butler that President Roosevelt forwarded to him. Taft thinks that if he can get the North Carolina people to work together, there will be a chance of winning that state. Taft will speak with some North Carolina people once the campaign gets going.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-07-06

Frank H. Hitchcock, Secretary of War William H. Taft’s campaign manager, has allegedly been using federal patronage positions to drive political support for Taft’s candidacy. As a response to this, a number of United States Senators who oppose President Roosevelt have rejected federal appointments in Ohio, Oklahoma, and North Carolina in an effort to hinder Roosevelt and Taft.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-16

The cause of child labor laws has been advancing, albeit slowly. Child labor activists have experienced setbacks in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, but many other states have seen expanded labor protections.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-06

William W. Finley, president of the Southern Railway, explains his opposition to a North Carolina law regarding passenger rates. Finley says his company has the right to operate under the protection of a federal court injunction while the rate case is being decided.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-01

Judge Jeter Connelly Pritchard has set a dubious precedent in the case against the Southern Railway, in which federal and state jurisdiction are at odds. President Roosevelt sent a representative from the Department of Justice to mediate the situation, and a “modus vivendi” was arranged. In so doing, individuals and corporations can no longer assume the protection of federal due process. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-30

Attorney General Bonaparte issues a statement regarding the “North Carolina situation.” On July 18, Bonaparte’s attention was called to certain North Carolina state officials who were said to have disregarded writs of habeas corpus issued by Judge Jeter Connelly Pritchard in the case regarding the Southern Railway Company. Assistant Attorney General Edward Terry Sanford was sent to investigate, but found no basis for the accusations. He did, however, find a conflict of jurisdiction between state and federal courts that could “diminish public respect” for the courts. Although Sanford was unable to mediate the situation, an arrangement between the Southern Railroad Company, state, and federal courts has been reported. President Roosevelt played no part in the case, and no military assistance was ever planned. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-28

Representative Moody believes that President Roosevelt is one of the most qualified men in the United States and will support Roosevelt in the next election.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10

Theodore Roosevelt thanks William J. Millard for the congratulations. He also shares an anecdote from the U.S. Civil War.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-06-01

President Roosevelt remarks on the colonial history of North Carolina and North Carolinians. He emphasizes the warm reception he received in North Carolina and by representatives of North Carolina while in South Carolina. He mentions reviewing the North Carolina National Guard at the South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition, which he refers to as the “Charleston Exposition.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-10

President Roosevelt tells the crowd he is glad to see them but wishes he could have passed through in daylight to see their “grand and beautiful historic state.” He says he will visit Virginia again soon. Referring to his journey through North Carolina and Tennessee, Roosevelt says that all Americans, especially the president, should travel and see that sectional differences are trivial while American similarities are fundamental. He states that Americans will rise or fall together. Roosevelt concludes by recognizing the special relationship Virginia has with American history in peacetime and war.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-09-09

President Roosevelt greets the people at Old Fort, North Carolina, and speaks on the qualities of good citizenship.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-09-09

Print shows a domestic scene with Benjamin F. Butler as the mother of a sick child labeled “Butler Boom” who is being examined by Puck as a physician. Various medicines labeled “Grand Reforms, Tewksbury Investigations, Big Reforms, Big Talk, Wind, [and] Friend of the Convicts” are on a table and the floor. Caption: N.C. Physician “You have almost talked the baby to death, madam; it will require great care to keep him alive until the 6th of November.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-10-31