Weekly Register

Symptoms of a locked jaw. Plain sewing done here cartoon by David Claypoole Johnston in Niles Weekly Register on January 5 and 12, 1828, regarding the "Corrupt Bargain" accusations made by presidential candidate Andrew Jackson against Secretary of State Henry Clay in 1824.

The Weekly Register (also called the Niles Weekly Register and Niles' Register) was a national magazine published in Baltimore, Maryland by Hezekiah Niles. The magazine "exerted a powerful influence on the early national discourse," according to a 2011 article on the magazine in The Baltimore Sun, with a national circulation of 4,000 -- respectable at the time.

As of the time of publication of volume 36, the magazine was being published from "Water Street, east of South Street" according to a masthead from that period.^[1]

History

Niles apprenticed as a printer in Philadelphia, eventually moving to Wilmington to start a magazine. His partner in that venture, however, ran off with the money, leaving him destitute. He moved on, establishing first a newspaper and then the Register in Baltimore. The magazine's content included coverage of the War of 1812, among other offerings.

External links

• Frederick N. Rasmussen Hezekiah Niles: A Patriotic News Magazine Editor in the 19th Century, Baltimore Sun, Sept. 4, 2011.
• Biographical Sketch of Hezekiah Niles from The History of Chester County by Futhey and Cope (1881)
• Niles Weekly Register fulltext

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