This is a large 18" x 24" Bound Volume of a Full Year of THE (CONGRESSIONAL) GLOBE DAILY, a 4-page Newspaper Published in Washington, D.C. by Francis P. Blair & John C. Rives, and Edited by Blair. It begins with the issue for Saturday, 8 Oclock P. M. January 1, 1842, being Volume XI, No. 173, and ending with the issue for December 31, 1842. It is bound in a typical plain binding of 1/4 leather over boards. This is a scarce and important archive of 365 issues recording the daily activities of our Federal Government and containing sketches of the Debates and Proceedings of Congress. The following are some of the more important events in U.S. history in 1842:
- March –Commonwealth v. Hunt: the Massachusetts Supreme Court makes strikes and unions legal in the United States.
- March 5 –Mexicantroops led byRafael VasquezinvadeTexas, briefly occupySan Antonio, and then head back to theRio Grande. This is the first such invasion since theTexas Revolution.
- March 9 – First documented discovery of gold in California, by Francisco Lopez atPlacerita CanyoninRancho San Francisco, sparking a small-scalegold rush, mainly of Mexicans fromSonora.
- March 19 --Treaty of 1842: Wyandotte (Huron) Indian nation cedes 114,000 acres of land in Ohio and Michigan to US, in exchange for 148,000 acres west of the Mississippi
- May 19 –Dorr Rebellion: Militiamen supportingThomas Wilson Dorrattack the arsenal inProvidence, Rhode Islandbut are repulsed.
- June 15 -- John C. Fremont sets off from Kansas River on his first expedition of the Oregon Trail with frontiersman Kit Carson as his guide.
- August 1 – A parade inPhiladelphiacelebrating the end ofslavery in the Caribbeanis attacked by a mob, leading to the 3-dayLombard Street riot.
- August 4 – TheArmed Occupation Actis signed, providing for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the Peninsula ofEast Florida.
- August 9 – TheWebster–Ashburton Treatyis signed, establishing the United States–Canadaborder east of theRocky Mountains.
- August 14 -- Second Seminole War declared over by US Army Colonel Worth, after nearly 7 years; more than 3000 Seminole Nation survivors re-located from Florida to Oklahoma, only about 300 allowed to remain.
- August 31 --US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
- November 15 -- Revolt of Slaves against the Cherokee Nation begins
- November 17 --Fugitive slave George Latimer captured in Boston
- November 26 -- Mount St Helens in Washington erupts
- November 26 – TheUniversity of Notre DameinSouth Bend, Indianais established by FatherEdward Sorinof theRoman CatholicCongregation of Holy Cross.
- December 19 -- US recognizes independence of Hawaii
- December 20 –The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolinais established.
The Congressional Globe
Beginning in 1833, a newspaper type publication, theCongressional Globe, began daily coverage of congressional proceedings, with bound cumulative volumes being published at the end of a session.Published by Francis Preston Blair and John Cook Rives, coveragecontinued to 1873(the 23rd to the 42nd Congress).TheGlobe, at least initially, was not considered a verbatim account, but, according to its early subtitle, provided only "sketches of the debates and proceedings". In contrast to theRegister, theGlobewas thought to be more partisan with many members claiming to be misrepresented or not reported at all. Members could, however, submit a copy of the full text of their speeches to be included in an appendix to be published at the end of a congressional session. Like theRegisterappendices to theGlobealso contained presidential messages, certain executive department reports, and the text of public laws, but not congressional committee reports or hearings.By the middle of the 19thcentury, due to improvements in shorthand and in congressional willingness to pay for the salaries of reporters and for copies of their reports, theGlobebecame a more verbatim account of congressional debates, and complaints against its reporters became fewer.
TheCongressional Globeis organized by congressional session and arranged in consecutively numbered pages, with three columns per page. Although eachCongressional Globevolume represents one congressional session,after volume 14, covering the second session of the 28thCongress (1844-1845), volume numbers were no longer noted, or noted inconsistently, in the text of theGlobeand were replaced by the phrase "New Series". However, many libraries have manually appended volume numbers to the spines of the bound edition of theGlobeaccording to congressional session sequence based on the table found in theChecklist of United States Public Documents: 1789-1909, 3rd ed., Vol. 1B, pp. 1466-69. Citations to theGlobe, however, should normally be by congress and session instead by volume number.
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