%eadnotat; ]> 5028codd An Inventory of the Ichabod Codding Papers, 1830-1866 Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staffEncoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 1970 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, December 2000. ENG Ichabod Codding Papers, 1830-1866 Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 2001 Papers, 1830-1966 RG 5/028 Ichabod Codding, 1810-1866 3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.) Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399 U.S.A.
For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Ichabod Codding, a Congregational minister, was active in the anti-slavery movement. He was born in New York, and attended Middlebury College. He moved to the Midwest in 1842, and was involved in politics in Illinois. The collection contains biographical materials, manuscript sermons, speeches, and notes, correspondence received (1830-1866), publications, and reference materials of Ichabod Codding. Includes information on abolition, John Brown, Owen Lovejoy, Abraham Lincoln, and Republican politics in Illinois in the mid 19th century.

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Ichabod Codding (1810-1866), a Congregational minister, was active in the anti-slavery movement. He was born in New York, and attended Middlebury College. He moved to the Midwest in 1842 and was involved in politics in Illinois.

The collection contains biographical materials, manuscript sermons, speeches, and notes, correspondence received (1830-1866), publications, and reference materials of Ichabod Codding. Includes information on abolition, John Brown, Owen Lovejoy, Abraham Lincoln, and Republican politics in Illinois in the mid 19th century. Of particular interest is Codding's correspondence which includes letters from Owen Lovejoy, Salmon P. Chase, Francis Gillette, Charles Sumner, and William Cullen Bryant. There are also letters from R.G. Wells and A. Mahon on Williams College and Oberlin in 1835.

This collection is divided into six series:

Biographical materialManuscriptsPrinted material by Ichabod CoddingPrinted material about Ichabod Codding's writingsCorrespondenceReference Material

For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Donor: Mary Preston Codding Bourland

Date: 1939

Collection is open for research.

Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

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Papers sorted and filed in document boxes and placed in Record Group 5

 Bibliography Negro Servitude in Illinois, by Norman Dwight Harris, in Swarthmore College Library, E445. (Refer to Index under CODDING. I2H3)

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings:

Codding, Ichabod, 1810-1866.Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873Gillette, Francis, 1807-1879Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878Brown, John, 1800-1859Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Lovejoy, Owen, 1811-1864.Slavery -- United States -- Anti-slavery movements.Illinois -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Illinois -- History -- 1778-1865.Republican Party (Ill.) 11. Biographical Material Life sketches, obituaries, and memorials 7-5-1866 Obituaries include one in Christian Inquirer,published by the Unitarian Association of New York State, which contains the statement, “It was said that after Mr. Lincoln he (Ichabod Codding)was the only man in Illinois who was a match for Senator Douglas.” The material also includes a memorial by Senator Francis Gillette, in the National Anti-Slavery Standard, N.Y., 7-28-1866, a photograph of Mr. Codding, and a lock of his hair 2. Manuscripts Sermons, speeches, and notes, on anti-slavery, political, and religious subjects. a. Mss. arranged chronologically. Concerning war against slavery, Baraboo 5-12-1844 John 5:30, "I can of mine own self do nothing..." 10-9-1847 Prov. 22:6, "Train up a child...," Joliet 12-6-1850 Human Nature, Joliet 12-11-1850 Remarks on the 7th of Romans and kindred Scriptures, Lockport 11-8-1851 Eph. 6:4, "And ye fathers, provoke not your children,"Lockport 1-9-1852 2 Timothy 1:1O, "Immortality," Lockport 2-14-1852 Matt. 6:10, "Thy Kingdom Come," Lockport 2-19-1853 Matt. 25:31-46, parable of the judgment, Joliet 4-?-1853 On Slavery, Ft. Des Moines 7-1-1856 "Address before Young Men's Fremont Club," Ft. Des Moines 9-6-1856 "Test of Discipleship," Iowa City 1857 "Fruits of the False Prophet," Iowa City and Princeton 3-27-185 "The Inadequacy of Human Language to Express a Dogmatic Theology," Pleasant View 5-19-1857 "Fourth of July Discourse," Bluff Cabin, Lockport 6-2-1858 "Abstract of Taney's Report," Iowa City 4-20-1859 "The Law of Compensation," Iowa City and Baraboo 2-16-1859 "Brief Notice of the Popular View of Eternal Punishment," Earlville 1-24-1860 "Speech before the Young Men's Literary Association of Lockport," Lockport 12-25-1860 "Honor All Men," Baraboo 11-22-1861 "Christian Baptism," Baraboo 3-28-1862 "Immortality," Baraboo 5-23-1862 "self-reliance is Reliance on God," Baraboo 7-4-1862 "Remarks on Prayer," Fond du Lac 9-15-1862 "Lord, how is it?..," Fond du ac 11-17-1862 "Man Grows into the Likeness of the God He Worships," Baraboo 12-6-1862 Rev. 19:6, "The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth...," repeated at Lockport, 6-22-1865, Fond du Lac 12-22-1862 "Christianity, Reason, and Science Against the Orthodox assumptions in behalf of the Bible, and Its interpretations of the Same, or Principles against Notions," Baraboo 2-14-1863 Luke 23:34, "Father forgive them," Baraboo 2-21-1863 "Law of Retribution, Repentance, and Forgiveness Note: discourse given on the day of national fast, 4-30-1863," Baraboo 4-28-1863 "Success, Its False and True Meaning," Baraboo 10-3-1863 Acts 17:31, regarding day of judgment, Baraboo 10-27-1863 Regarding popular theology, Baraboo 12-25-1863 "The Sin Against the Holy Ghost," 1-16-1864 Matt. 11:28, "Come unto me...," Baraboo 2-5-1864 Luke 23:34, "Father forgive them...," 2-6-1864 "Inspiration," Baraboo 2-26-1864 "Some Remarks on the Life and Character of Owen Lovejoy." 1864 Spring Matt. 22:40, "On these two commandments...,"Baraboo 12-22-1864 New Year Sermon, Baraboo 1-1-1865 "History of the Popular Doctrine of Future Punishment," Baraboo 1-31-1865 "Natural Revelation," Bloomington 9-10-1865 b. Mss. arranged alphabetically by subject.c. Misc. mss. (incomplete). 13. Printed material by Ichabod Codding: 1847 An Address Delivered Before A Mass Convention of Abolitionists, at Southport, 1/27/1847. Published by direction of the Executive Com. of the Wisconsin Liberty Assoc., Waukesha. Printed at office of The American Freeman, 1848. 1854 Codding's Reply to Douglas,...at Joliet and Geneva, on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill, and Slavery Extension. Reported at the time for the Free West. 1856 The Freeman's Manual; A Campaign Document For the People, and Especially Adapted to the Use of Republican Debaters and Orators. By Ichabod Codding. Printed by Wright, Medill, Day and Co., Tribune Office, 1856. 1856 “Jefferon Against the Pierce and Douglas Democracy,” to the editor of Monmouths Atlas, 4-7-1856. 1860 A Republican Manual for the Campaign...By I. Codding. Printed at Princeton, Ill., at the “Republican” Book and Job Printing Office, 1860. 1863 Fourth of July Speech, printed in Baraboo Republic, Baraboo, Sauk County, Wisc., 7-21-63. 1864 Lovejoy Monument Meeting. Speech by I. Codding eulogizing Owen Lovejoy, printed in Bureau County Republican, Princeton, Ill., 6-9-1864. n.d. “The Anti-Slavery Cause”, No.1. Article printed in Tribune. n.d. “Statistical Specimens of Free and Slave States”. (leaflet) 14. Printed material regarding Ichabod Codding's speeches: a. Newspaper clippings, 1854-1864 & n.d. Quincy from Chicago Tribune, Galesburg Democrat, Republican, The Sparta Eagle, and others. b. Two printed flyersn.d.1. Announcing “Codding's Lectures on The Slavery Question.”n.d.2. Announcing “Codding's Discourses on Liberal Christianity.”n.d. 25. Correspondence Letters received, 1830-1866 Scrapbook of letters received while at Middlebury College, Vt., and at Canandaigua, N.Y., from college friends, and relatives, 1830-1835 6. Reference material; 2Printed pamphlet,3-28-1864. Addresses on the Death of Hon. Owen Lovejoy, delivered in the Senate and House of Representatives, Published Washington, Government Printing Office, Scrapbooks,1834-1874Clippings, copied extracts, mainly regarding slavery and politics. 1. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings reporting the last great Anti-Slavery Reunion, taken from Chicago, Ill. papersca. 1874 Sketches of lives of Ichabod Codding, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Elijah and Owen Lovejoy, and others; interview with Abraham Lincoln; John G. Whittier's account of the Philadelphia Abolition Convention in 1833, containing mention of Lucretia Mott; reports of the funeral service of Wendell Phillips. Two scrapbooks of miscellaneous clippings and copied extracts dealing with anti-slavery politics. 22. Scrapbook of clippings from anti-slavery newspapers, and others, 1834-1840. 33. Scrapbook of clippings from anti-slavery newspapers, 1839-1842. 3Folder of newspaper clippings, 1859 Regarding John Brown, his raid at Harper's Ferry, his imprisonment, and execution. Folder of miscellaneous newspaper clippings,1852-1862 & n.d. Arranged chronologically as far as possible, on a variety of subjects. "Some Account of Mrs. Beecher Stowe, and her Family,” 1852. "Horace Greeley's speech on the dignity of Labor. N.Y. Daily Tribune, 5-5-1854. “Inauguration of the Republican Party in Middle Illinois”, by I. Codding in Quincy ,7-30-1855. List of members of new Congress, 1859. “R.W. Emerson in Parker's Pulpit”, Principia, 12-31-1859. Sermon by Henry Ward Beecher, preached at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, printed 12-25-1862,12-7-1862. Account of an interview with Lincoln, description of him, and excerpts from his conversation,n.d. “Mr. Calhoun's opinion of the Missouri Compromise...,”n.d. “First Lecture on English Poetry, by James Russell Lowell,”n.d. “Mr. Greeley's Lecture on Woman,”n.d. “McClellan's Career Summed Up,”n.d. “The Nebraska Bill - Important Features,”n.d. “Mr. Seward's speech in the Final Debate on the Kansas-Nebraska Bill,”n.d. “Sketch of General Sherman,”n.d. “Slavery described by an eye-witness,”n.d. “The Southern Press on Nebraska,”n.d. The President's message, unsigned draft of veto, transmitted by Lincoln to Congress, regarding bill to suppress insurrection, etc.,n.d. 3Newspapers and periodicals,1843-1864 Baraboo Republic, 7-22-1863. Chicago Tribune, 10-3-1864. Daily Life, 2-13-, 9-3-, 9-10-, 10-1-, 10-8-1864. The Evening Post, 12-13-1860, 5-23-1861, 3-4-1863, 9-7-1864 The Free West, 10-5-, 11-2-1854. Hartford Evening Press, 12-29-1860. The National Era, 8-17-1848. National Anti-Slavery Standard, 7-28-1866. The New Covenant, 5-15-1858. New York Weekly Tribune, 1-14-1843. The Principia, 10-12-1861.