The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1843-02-17
PROSPECTUS
ron THE
Congressional Globe e. Appendix.

Congressional Globe a. Appendix.
These works have such wide circulation and
have been souniversally approved and soush, after
! by the public, that we deem it necessary only in
this prospectus to say that they will be continued at
the next session oil Congress, and 10 state, sue
cinc,ly, their contents, the form Ia which they
will be printed, and the prices for them.
| The Congressional Globe is made up Of the
daily proceedings of the two Houses Of Congress.
The speeches ithe members are abridged, or con-
densed, To bring them into reasonable or read
able length. All the resolutions offered, or motions
made, are given at length, in tie movers own
words; and the yeas and nays oil the impor-
tant questions. 1t is printed with small type
brewer and nonparei.-on double-royal sheet, in
quarto from, each number containing 10 royal
quarto pages. 1t is printed as fast as the business
done in Congress furnishes matter enough for a
number. The first four weeks of session usu-
ally furnish matter enough for one number a
week and the balance of the session enough for
two ar three numbers week. The coming
session Of Congress will furnish matter enough,
we suppose, for twenty-five or thirty Numbers.
The Appendix Is made up of the PHEsiDESr's
annual message, the reports of the principal of
icers of the Government that accompany it, and all
the long speeches of members OF Congress- written
out or revised by themselves. 1t is printed in the
same form as the Congressional Globe, and usu-
ally makes about the same number of pages.
There are not SO many numbers published the first
weeks of session, as there are numbers of the
Congressional Globe; because the members are
slow in writing out their speeches. But towards
the close of a session the numbers published
more frequently than the Congressional 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, as published in the Con-
gressional Globe, the reader may turn TO the APP
pendix to see the speech at length, corrected by the
member himself.
Now, there is no source but the Congressional
Globe and Appendix from which person can
obtain full history of,he proceedings OF Congress.
GALES & SEAToS's Register of Debates, which
contained history, was suspended in the year
1887, and has not since been resumed. 1t cost
about five times as much for a session as the Con-
gressional Globe and Appendix, and did not con-
tain an equal amount of matter, great potion OF
the current proceedings being omitted. The spec
ches of both parties are published in the Daily
Globe, and in the Congressional Globe and APP
pendix other papers publish their 0,Cn side only.
We are enabled to PRINT the Congressional Globe
and Appendix at the low rate now proposed, by
having large quantity of type, and keeping the
Congressional matter that we set up for the
Daily and semi-weekly Globes standing for the
Congressional Globe and Appendix.
Complete indexes to both the Congressional
Globe and the Appendix are printed at the close
of each session, and sent to all subscribers for
them.
The reports of the Congressional Globe and
Appendix are not in the least degree affected by
the party bias OF the Editors. they are given pre-
cisely as written out by the Reporters and the
Members themselves. And the whole are subject
to the revision and correction of the speakers as
they pass in our daily sheet, in case any misun-
Outstanding or misrepresentation Of their remarks
should occur. We make daily analysis Of the
doings in Congress, and give our opinions in it free
ly but this is published only in the Daily, Semi
weekly, and Weekly Globes. The Daily Globe is
$40, the Semi Weekly Globe SIS, and the Weekly
Globe 50 per annum, ia dduaHce. The Weekly
Globe is printed in the same form as the Congress
sional Glbbe and Appendix, and a complete index
made to IT at the end of each year.
Both Houses of Congress take the Congress
sional Globe and Appendix for their committee
rooms, and for the libraries of Congress. 80 con-
fdent are we that all who may subscribe for these
works will be pleased with thcm that we hereby
pledge ourselves to take them back and refund the
money to all who shall be dissatisfied If any per-
sons shall have any of the previous volumes on
hand, aud shall wish to dispose Of them, if ,hey
viii send them to Us, we will send to them the
like number of the future volumes. The Whis
Members of Congress, who did not subscribe for
these works at first, are now almost compelled to
have the back numbers, to enable them 10 under
stand the previous legislation of Congress. We
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