THE NATIONAL ADVOCATE, New York, Nov. 22, 1814  This issue has reports on the closing, climatic months of the War of 1812.
The front page includes: "A Proclamation" by the President for a day of thanksgiving & prayer, signed in type: James Madison. Also: "Fort Erie Evacuated and Blown Up", plus an Act of Congress also signed by the President: James Madison.
Inside has a variety of war-related articles including: "American Privateers" "Cruise of the David Porter" "Privateer Saratoga Arrived" "Fulton the First", a letter from Capt. A. Sinclair of the U.S. Navy at the Upper Lake to the Secretary of the Navy; and some reports of the negotiations At Ghent, Belgium, for ending the War of 1812.
The significance of this issue is amplified by its publisher, Naphtali Phillips, a prominent Jewish-American journalist of the early Republic who famously pulled the very first printed copy of Washington's Farewell Address off the press in 1796. He was also married to the daughter of Moses Seixas—the famed leader of Newport’s Touro Synagogue whose historic 1790 letter to George Washington prompted the President's immortal declaration that the U.S. government "gives to bigotry no sanction."
Four pages, rubbing at the top quadrant causes some perforations in the paper, otherwise in good condition.