DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., March 12, 1849

* President Zachary Taylor
* Inauguration - inaugural 

Page 3 has reports headed: "The President's Inaugural which begins: "The brevity and perspicuity of President Taylor's Inaugural Address are so striking that it would seem to be almost superfluous to make a single remark upon it...".
This is followed by: "The Inaugural" with more on his address, then yet a third report relating to it. Also: "Interview With the President". Great to have this content in a newspaper from the nation's capital.
Four pages, good condition.

Background: This March 12, 1849, issue of the Daily National Intelligencer serves as a highly significant primary source capturing the immediate political landscape following the inauguration of Zachary Taylor, a political outsider and Mexican-American War hero whose presidency would be tragically cut short just 16 months later. Published in the nation’s capital, the paper offers rare, multi-layered editorial insight into Taylor's exceptionally brief 1,100-word inaugural address—praised here for its "brevity and perspicuity"—at a precarious moment when the nation was deeply fractured over the extension of slavery into newly acquired Western territories. The inclusion of an "Interview With the President" provides a rare, intimate look at Taylor’s famously accessible and unpretentious leadership style during his first week in office. Because the Intelligencer operated as Washington's definitive paper of record, and because its mid-19th-century rag linen paper resists the brittle decay of later wood-pulp printings, this complete four-page artifact survives as a durable and historically rich collectible that preserves the initial national reaction to a pivotal, pre-Civil War presidential transition.