THE WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, Jan. 18, 1812 (misprint of 1811 in dateline)

* Tecumseh's War

Page 2 has: "Louisiana" with a prefacing note: "The following are the principal features of the constitution...".
The back page has: "The Shawannoe Prophet a Prisoner" which reports: "...that the prophet was surrendered a prisoner to gov. Harrison by some Indian Chiefs; that Tecumseh, his brother, was to be surrendered also, in like manner--and that the Indian Chiefs stated that in the late engagement on the Wabash, the Indians lost 214 killed, besides a number wounded."
Sixteen pages, 6 1/4 by 9 3/4 inches, very nice condition.

Background: The contents of this January 18, 1812, issue capture a pivotal inflection point in American history, documenting the twin geopolitical shifts of Western expansion and escalating frontier warfare that directly precipitated the War of 1812. The publication of Louisiana’s draft constitution marks the bureaucratic birth of the 18th U.S. state, representing a massive victory for the Jeffersonian vision of an agrarian "empire for liberty" and the permanent locking of the Mississippi River under American control. Simultaneously, the back-page report on the aftermath of the Battle of Tippecanoe—detailing the supposed capture of the Shawnee Prophet and the fracturing of Tecumseh’s Native American confederacy along the Wabash River—highlights the violent displacement of Indigenous populations that accompanied this expansion. Because Westerners widely blamed British instigation and arms for this frontier bloodshed, the fallout from Tippecanoe whipped American war fever to a frenzy; combined with the integration of the Louisiana Territory, these events collectively drove a confident, expanding United States to declare war on Great Britain just five months later, permanently altering the trajectory of the North American continent.