Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-12-09
PROSPECTUS
FOR THE

FHNtlESE works have such WIDE circulation,
"A and have been so universally approved and
sought after by the public, that we deem It no.
cessary only in this prospectus to say that they
will be continued at the next session OF Congress
and to state succinc,ly their contents tho form IN
which they will be printed, and the prices iof
them.
The Congressional Globe is made up OF the
daily proceedings of tho two Houses OF congress.
The speeches of the members are condensed' 10
bring them into readable length. All the reso-
lutions offered or motions made, are given IN the
movers own words; and tho yeas and nays on
all importan, questions. 1t is printed with small
type-5revier and nonparel-on doube-royal
sheet in quartz form, each number containing l6
royal quarto pages. Il is printed as fast as
the business done in Congress furnishes mat
ter enough for a number. Tho first four weeks
of session usually furnish matter enough for
one number a week; and the balance of the ses-
sion enough for two or three numbers week.
The approaching session of Congress will be u
very long one, and will furnish matter enough,
we suppose, for fifty or sixty numbers.
The Appendix is made up of the Presidents
annual message the reports of the principal Off
GERS of the Government that accompany it, and
all long speeches of members of Congress, writ
ten out and revised by themselves. 1t is printed
in the same form as The Congressional Globe, and
usually makes about the same number of pages.
There are not SO many numbers published the
first five weeks of the session, as there are num-
bers of the Congressional Globe because the
members are slow in writing out their speeches.
But towards the close Of the session the numbers
are published moro frequently than the Congress
sional Globe.
Each of these works is complete in itself but
it is necessary for every subscriber who desires
full knowledge Of the proceedings of Congress,
to have both; because, then, if there should be
any ambiguity in the synopsis Of the speech, Or
any denial of its correctness, published in the
Congressional Globe, the reader may turn to the
Appendix to SEQ the speech at length, corrected
by the member himself.
Now, there is no source but the Congressional
Globe and Appendix, from which q person can
obtain full history of the proceedings Of Con-
gress. Gales g. Seaton's Register of Debates
which contained history, was suspended in the
year 1887, and has not since been resumed. Ii
cost about five times as much for session as the
Congressional Globe and Appendix, and did not
contain an equal amount of matter, great por-
ton of the current proceedings being omitted.
Complete indexes to both the Congressional
Globe and Appendix printed at the close of
each session and sent to the subscribers for them.
The reports of The Congressional Globe and
Appendix ore not in the least degree affected by
the party bias of the Editors. They are given
precisely as written out by the Reporters and the
Members themselves, and subject to tho revi-
sion and correction of tho speakers.
Both Houses of Congress take the COMPRESSION
al Globe and Appendix for their Committee rooms,
and for tho libraries of Congress. So confident
are we that all who subscribe for these works will
be pleased with them, that we hereby pledge our
selves to take them back and refund the money to
all who may be dissatisfied.
The approach of Congress which will discuss
for tho American people oil the most important
questions ever entertained by the National Coun-
ellis, and new and extraordinary measures mover
before fully ventured upon, has induced the pub
fishers of the Globe to make grea er and better
preparation than heretofore for rePc r,ng and pub.
fishing the speeches and proceedings of the next
session. a stronger corps of reporters, new type,
and finer paper, will be provided, TO present, in
the best MANNER tho debates and dolngs of the &C.
presentation Of the Union, which assemblies under
exciting circumstances, very widely differing from
the state of things encountered by any previous
Congress. The executive power is at war with
both tho great parties that compose tho Congress-;
and one of these will have the ascendency in the
Senate while the other holds power in the recent
ly chosen popular branch. In this attitude Con-
gress will meet to deal with the most interesting
topics which have ever invoked its wisdom. Ii
will find the whole revenues of the country in the
hands of irresponsible functionarics, in whom no
party confdes. 1t will find an oppressive tariff
robbing the great mass of the people and the 90.
vernment. II will find mons,rous moneyod and
specializing interest struggling to build up another
independent taxing power in an Incorporated es-
misunderstanding, as a vested right. to certain
classes, authority to counterfeit for the nation a
currency forbidden by the Constitution. 1t will
find political agitators in Congress at work for
presidential asplrants, urging the distribution of
the national domain, and the assumption Of State
debts, as means Of enlisting in their political
designs all the classes who look to distribution as
perpetuatng an excessive tariff, TO assumption as
approaching their stocks and creating national
debt-opcnng new field of speculation, of which
a national bank is considered necessary, as the
grand stimuator. With all these vast issues will
be involved the question of the next Presidency,
on which it is supposed every result will depend.
In such crisis, it is proper that the people of
every district in the Union should be well inform
cd of the course pursued by its particular repre-
sentative, and Of the bearing of all the discussions
in Congress, and of all its proceedings. Tho i'm
portant topics opened up in Congress will, we
have no doubt, greatly prot;nct the session, and
consequently increase the volume of our reports.
The Congressional Globe of the last long session
(made up of the proceedings, including tho votes
and synopsis of the discussion) extended to al
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