NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Washington City, Jan. 12, 1839  

* Second Seminole War - Florida

Included are 1 1/2 columns taken up with: "Occupation Of Florida" which is introduced with: "A bill to provide for the armed occupation and settlement of that part of Florida which is now overrun and infested by marauding bands of hostile Indians." with all six Sections.
Much more reporting from the federal government.
Sixteen pages, 8 1/4 by 12 inches, very nice condition.

Background: This January 12, 1839 issue of Niles' National Register is a rare and highly significant primary source capturing a desperate strategic pivot during the Second Seminole War (1835–1842), America's longest and most costly conflict against Native Americans. The 1 1/2 columns detailing Senator Thomas Hart Benton’s newly introduced "Armed Occupation" bill mark the structural origin of a radical shift in U.S. policy: transitioning from a failed offensive strategy using conventional standing armies to a "pioneer military" strategy designed to forcibly displace the Seminole people through a human wall of armed civilian settlers. Though the 1839 version of the bill ultimately stalled in Congress due to political infighting over land speculation, this text laid the exact groundwork for the final Armed Occupation Act of 1842, which successfully choked off Seminole territory by exchanging free 160-acre homesteads for civilian border defense. Because Niles' National Register was printed on premium, durable rag paper rather than modern wood pulp, surviving 16-page specimens in very nice condition are exceptional historical artifacts, offering collectors and historians an unedited, real-time window into Jacksonian-era Manifest Destiny and the harsh logistics of early American frontier warfare.

As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."