UNITED STATES' TELEGRAPH, Washington City, May 21, 1828  

* Rare campaign periodical
* General Andrew Jackson

This newspaper has a wealth of political reporting, published by Duff Green who had come to Washington to establish a newspaper to promote the candidacy of Andrew Jackson.
Mott says, "Green proved to be of the hard-hitting politician type of editor." which could be taken literally as Green got involved in a fist-fight in the Capitol.
Eight pages, never bound nor trimmed, 10 1/2 by 14 inches, mild wear at the folds & mains, light foxing, generally good condition.

Background: Published at the absolute zenith of the notoriously venomous 1828 presidential campaign, this May 21, 1828, issue of the United States' Telegraph serves as a raw, primary artifact of the birth of modern American partisan media and the rise of Jacksonian Democracy. Edited by the fiercely combative Duff Green, this specific periodical was engineered not for general news, but as a dedicated political weapon to systematically dismantle the incumbent John Quincy Adams administration and avenge Andrew Jackson's controversial loss in 1824. At this exact moment in late spring 1828, the press war had devolved into unprecedented character assassination—with opposition papers circulating the infamous "Coffin Handbills" accusing Jackson of murder, while Green's Telegraph aggressively counter-attacked by framing Adams as an elitist corruptor of the republic. The profound historical significance of this publication lies in how it captures a pivotal structural shift in American politics: the transition from the relatively restrained "Era of Good Feelings" into a highly organized, mass-mobilized two-party system powered by aggressive, unyielding media warfare. Survival of this specific eight-page campaign issue in an unbound, untrimmed state means it escapes the standard alterations of historic library binding, leaving its deckled edges intact as a pristine, unvarnished window into the exact media strategy that ultimately propelled Andrew Jackson to the White House.