Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1845-10-30
NEW SER Els
OF THE
CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE AND
APPENDIX.
TO DE STEREoTYPED.

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LEGATION was the first and only one that
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Of all debates; every important vote; and
an Appendix, including at full length all
the revised speeches delivered during the
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Senators from the States and the Repre-
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interests Of their several constituencies
Public opinion Of the public information,
as it exists among those they represent
are embodied by them; and in the cruel
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is brought to its test, and is there con-
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plan of advancing the usefulness of Con-
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sued during the last ten years, which
would be impaired in value to us and util-
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tnued, We have a double motive TO prompt
US to extend it through new series. We
are resolved if possible to give it perma'
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tanned and improved We shall enter
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of the daily proceedings of the two Hous.
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members are condensed, to bring them
to rea dable length. All the resolu-
tons offered, or motions made, are given
in the movers own words; and the yeas
and nays on all the important questions.
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the principal officers of the Government
that accompany it, and all the long
speeches of members of Congress, writ
ten out or revised by themselves. 1t is
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rarely more business done than will make
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there is usually sufficient number ofeach
every week. The next session will be
long one, and it is supposed will be I'M
usually interesting; therefore, we caicu-
late that the Congressional Globe and
Appendix will each make near one thou
sand large quarto pages, printed in small
,type-breyer and nonpareil, We fur
nish complete indexes to both at the end
Of the session.
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Globe and Appendix for the last twelve
sessions of Congress, or which five were
long and seven were short sessions
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ton having stopped printing their Regis
tiers of Debates in 1887. A few hundred
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