THOMAS'S MASSACHUSETTS SPY OR WORCESTER GAZETTE, July 27, 1803  

* President Thomas Jefferson 
* re. the Louisiana Purchase

Page 2 contains: "Washington - By the President of the United States of America. A PROCLAMATION" calling for convening Congress about the Louisiana Purchase, signed: Thomas Jefferson. Immediately following is: "Feature Of The Treaty" with the details of purchasing Louisiana from France.
Four pages, a few very discrete archival mends, nice condition.

Background: The publication of President Thomas Jefferson’s proclamation in the July 27, 1803, edition of Thomas’s Massachusetts Spy represents a pivotal constitutional and geopolitical crossroads in American history. By calling a special session of Congress to ratify the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson was forced to reconcile his strict constructionist view of the Constitution—which did not explicitly grant the federal government the power to acquire new territory—with the pragmatic "manifest destiny" of doubling the nation’s size for $15 million. The "Features of the Treaty" outlined in the gazette signaled the end of French colonial ambitions in North America and the beginning of the United States' transformation into a continental power, effectively securing control of the Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans. This event was not merely a real estate transaction but a catalyst for intense partisan debate; while it promised immense agricultural wealth and security, it also ignited long-standing tensions over the expansion of slavery and the eventual displacement of indigenous populations, fundamentally altering the trajectory of the American experiment.