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“The War,” Vol I & II, Bound Collection of 104 Complete Newspapers, War of 1812
“The War,” Vol I & II, Bound Collection of 104 Complete Newspapers, War of 1812
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“The War,” Vol I & II, Bound Collection of 104 Complete Newspapers, War of 1812

Collection of 104 issues of “The War,” mostly four pages each, three columns per page, published in New York City every Saturday morning beginning June 27, 1814, through January 16, 1813, thereafter every Tuesday, by S. Woodworth & Co., No. 60 Vesey-Street, 218 (Volume I) and 210 (Volume II) numbered pages, 9” x 11.25”, front and verso. Publisher Samuel Woodworth (1784-1841) recalled Patrick Henry’s patriotic cry in his paper’s motto, printed just beneath the title, “Let the Rallying Word, Through All the Day, be ‘Liberty or Death.’” Signature “L. Sage” or “Luther Sage” on top of the first page of many issues.

The newspapers were published on paper made using cotton rag fiber and are generally in very good condition. Some tears (on less than 10% of the pages), corner missing on one leaf, stains. Light foxing. A title page and two-page “Index to the Principal Events Recorded in the First Volume of The War” precedes the first 52 issues; a similar title page and index precedes the newspapers of the second volume of “The War.” The title page: “The War./being/A Faithful Record of the Transactions of the War between the/United States of America/and their Territories/and the/United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,/and the Dependencies thereof/Declared on the Eighteenth Day of June, 1812.”

First title page and index frayed at edges. There are no advertisements; there are a few poems. It is noted in each newspaper in the second volume that “Subscribers, by leaving their files at the office, can have them bound to any pattern. Numbers lost or mislaid will be supplied.”

Since each volume has a title page and index, Mr. Sage had his copies bound. However, Woodworth’s original binding has been replaced with a modern, plain binding, imprinted on the tan cover and the spine, “The War of 1812.”

Woodworth’s printing business faced hardships because of the war. “The War,” without advertisements, was not a financially successful enterprise for Woodworth who inserted in the eight-page, March 9, 1813, issue: “To those few who have not paid up the second quarter, we would observe, that as ‘money is the very sinew of War,’ it cannot be successfully carried on without it. We therefore rely upon their patriotism to send in their arrearages.”

Woodworth discontinued “The War” after the September 6, 1814, issue, 3½ months before the war itself officially ended; the Treaty of Ghent was signed on December 24, 1814. There was no title page nor index to the 12 issues of Volume III, nor was it offered bound as were the 52 issues in each of the first two volumes. After Woodworth lost his business in 1815, he went to work for printer Charles N. Baldwin who printed three more issues of “The War” in 1817, covering the last seven months of the War of 1812.

Congressional reports leading to the war and the declaration of war are reported in the first two issues, June 27, 1812 and July 4, 1812. Excerpts: War of 1812 Song. August 1, 1812 (eight-page issue), pp. 27-28. Following the printing of seven lines of music (with pencil notations), “Tompkins’ Grand Slow March” and “Tompkins’ Quick Step” each “Composed by Mr. O’Hara, an honorary member of the Juvenile Sons of Erin,” are the lyrics of “An Original Song,” five stanzas, each with the refrain revealing the melody: “Yankee land is Liberty’s hall,/Yankee doodle dandy,/Let British boatswains wind the call/And pipe, freedom is the dandy.” “Constitution” vs. “Guerriere.” September 5, 1812, p. 46. “The U.S. frigate Constitution, cap. Hull, has arrived at Boston, from a cruise of only two weeks, during which she has recaptured several American vessels, captured 2 British brigs, and taken and destroyed the British frigate Guerriere. The following account was furnished by an officer of the Constitution, and may be relied on in every particular...” Surrender of Gen. Hull at Detroit. September 5, 1812, p. 47. “Capture of Gen. Hull, and his army. With heartfelt regret we have to announce this unpleasant intelligence to our readers. No official account of this event has yet been received in this city, but abundance of corroborating testimony is received from various quarters, which justify us in its belief. The particulars of this unfortunate event are stated to be as follow...” 27-year-old future President promoted. November 7, 1812, p. 38. “The president has conferred upon Capt. Z. Taylor, of the 7th regiment, U.S. infantry, the brevet rank of major, for his gallant defense of Fort Harrison.”

Description of “General Tecumseh.” January 26, 1813, p. 136. “We find in the history of gen. Hull’s expedition the following ‘brief description’ of the celebrated Anglo-savage, brig. Gen. Tecumseh, now in the British service: ‘Tecumseh is about 45 years of age, of the Shawanoe tribe, six feet high, well-proportioned for his height, of effect and lofty deportment, penetrating eye, rather stern in his visage; artful; insidious in preparing enterprises and bold in their execution...’”

President Madison’s Inaugural Address. March 16, 1813, pp. 166-167. “About to add the solemnity of an oath to the obligations impressed by a second call to the station, in which my country here before placed me, I find, in the presence of this respectable assembly, an opportunity of publicly repeating my profound sense of so distinguished a confidence, and of the responsibility united with it...” <>“We have met the enemy...” October 5, 1813, p. 66. “Further on the Victory on Erie. Cesarean brevity.

The first of the following letters from commodore Perry to general Harrison is more laconic than any of Bonaparte’s dispatches, and resembles the veni, vidi, vici, of the immortal Julius, more than any thing we have before seen. It is a perfect model of the multum in parvo. U.S. brig Niagara, off the Western Sister, head of Lake Erie, Sept. 10th, 1813, 4 P.M Dear general – We have met the enemy – and they are ours. Two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop. Yours, with great respect and esteem, O.H. Perry.” Death of Tecumseh. November 16, 1813, p. 91. “Extract of a letter from Maj. Thomas Rowland, of the 27th U.S. infantry, to his friend in New-Lisbon, Ohio, dated ‘Arnold’s Mills, River Thames, Oct. 9...The Indian force in the late action amounted to 1000. Tecumseh is certainly killed – I saw him with my own eyes – it was the first time I had seen this celebrated chief. There was something so majestic, so dignified, and yet so mild in his countenance, as he lay stretched on his back on the ground where a few minutes before he had rallied his men to the fight, that while gazing on him with admiration and pity, I forgot he was a savage...”

Abdication of Napoleon. June 7, 1814, p. 203. “London Gazette Extra, April 10, 1814. Abdication of Bonaparte. Dispatches have this day been received from lord Cathcart announcing the abdication of the crown of France and Italy by Napoleon Bonaparte, in terms of which the following is a translation: ‘The allied powers having proclaimed that the emperor Napoleon was the only obstacle to the re-establishment of the peace of Europe, the emperor Napoleon, faithful to his oath, declares, that he renounces for himself and his heirs, the thrones of France and Italy...’” The June 14th edition, p. 210, reports that “The French national brig Olivier arrived at this port [New York] on Wednesday last, in 41 days from L’Orient, France, and brings a confirmation of the abdication of Napoleon in favor of Louis XVIII...”

This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.

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