Gazette of the United States, G. Washington's State of the Union Speech, 1790

[WASHINGTON, George]. Newspaper, “The Gazette of the United States”, 4pp, 10” x 16.25”, Philadelphia, Saturday, December 11, 1790. Expected wear includes age toning, scattered foxing, a few small chips and tears, minor paper loss at central vertical fold, else near fine condition and scarce.

On the front page of this historic newspaper is a two-column printing of George Washington’s Second Annual State of the Union Speech, given on December 8, 1790. Certainly, the highlight of this issue, the President’s message to Congress begins, in part, “The abundant fruits of another year have blessed our Country with plenty, and with the means of a flourishing commerce. The progress of public credit is witnessed by a considerable rise of American Stock abroad as well as at home.”

The Gazette of the United States was an early American newspaper, first issued semiweekly in New York on April 15, 1789, but moving the next year to Philadelphia when the nation's capital moved there the next year. It was friendly to the Federalist Party. Its founder, John Fenno, intended it to unify the country under its new government. As the leading Federalist newspaper of its time, it praised the Washington and Adams administrations and their policies. Its Federalist sponsors, chiefly Alexander Hamilton, granted it substantial funding; because some of it was directly from the government, the Gazette is considered to have been semi-official. Throughout its history, the Gazette was renamed multiple times. Starting from 1798, the ownership and editorship of Fenno's newspaper passed between multiple people. The influence of the newspaper declined around this time, and it ceased publication March 7, 1818.

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