(Zachary TAYLOR) Broadside, “BY EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS & TELEGRAPH FOR THE MINERS’ JOURNAL ONLY. GEN. TAYLOR’S INAUGURAL ADDRESS DELIVERED AT WASHINGTON, March 5th, at 12 O’clock, M. [Pottsville, Penn.] (24 x 7 1/4 in.).

Rare. An extremely early printing of Zachary Taylor’s brief inaugural address transcribed from the telegraph: “We have at considerable expense procured a Copy of Gen. Taylor’s Inaugural Address, by Telegraph in advance of our Contemporaries, and hasten to lay it before our readers.” An early telegraphic ‘scoop’ of the larger publications in the region as noted in the postscript notice at the bottom of the sheet: “IN ORDER to furnish our readers with Gen. Taylor’s Inaugural Address in advance of the Philadelphia papers, we have gone to much trouble and expense. Therefore those who purchase, we hope, will not loan it immediately.”

Creases, light wear to margins, else fine condition overall.

(EXA 3907) $1,500