THE EXAMINER & JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, Philadelphia, Oct. 30, 1833 The masthead includes: "Devoted to the Advancement of the Cause of State Rights and Free Trade." This is the volume 1, number 7 issue. This title existed for less than two years. We believe this is just the 2nd issue of this title we have offered in our 50+ years.
The content is almost entirely political, as the title would suggest.
Sixteen pages with never bound with wide, untrimmed margins, 7 by 10 1/2 inches, nice condition.

Background: Published on October 30, 1833, by pioneering free-market economist Condy Raguet, this rare, pristine issue of The Examiner & Journal of Political Economy captures the explosive aftermath of the Nullification Crisis (1832–1833), a pivotal flashpoint in antebellum American history where South Carolina nearly sparked a civil war by declaring federal tariffs null and void. The journal’s provocative masthead, "Devoted to the Advancement of the Cause of State Rights and Free Trade," highlights a crucial ideological bridge: it directly links the economic frustrations of anti-tariff Southern Democrats with the burgeoning legal theory of state sovereignty. Because it was printed in Philadelphia—the manufacturing heart of the pro-tariff North—this publication represents a bold, highly partisan intellectual assault against the "American System" of economic protectionism, arguing instead that high import taxes unfairly penalized agrarian states to enrich Northern industrialists. Surviving in an extraordinary "never bound" state with its original, untrimmed factory margins, this transient, short-lived political tract provides historians with an incredibly rare, unfiltered window into the fierce constitutional debate over federal overreach and economic regionalism that ultimately set the nation on the path toward secession.