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Item # 710877
September 10, 1836
NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, Sept. 10, 1836  

* Death of Nathan Mayer Rothschild
* Established English Branch of the Rothschild family
* President Jackson and others discuss the U.S. surplus

The front page has a brief, albeit historic, report on the death of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the founder of the English branch of the Rothschild family legacy and influence.
A portion of the text includes: "He...swayed princes and ministers by the power of his immense wealth". Quite historic - and nice to have on the front-page.
The inside pages have a great focus on the government surplus. Various exchanges occur between President Andrew Jackson, General William H. Harrison, Sherrod Williams, and Martin Van Buren. It is interesting to read the various opinions regarding the government's responsibility in regard to a situation which is foreign to those of us living in the 21st century.
Sixteen pages, 8 1/4 by 12 inches, printing error to the front page does not affect mentioned reports, good condition.

Background: This September 10, 1836 issue of Niles' Weekly Register captures a pivotal, highly ironic crossroads in global and American economic history, documenting the end of an era in international finance alongside the peak of a short-lived domestic fiscal anomaly. The front-page announcement of the death of Nathan Mayer Rothschild marks the passing of the premier architect of modern transnational banking, whose unmatched financial network financed empires, stabilized European monarchies, and established the English branch of the Rothschild dynasty as a dominant geopolitical force. Concurrently, the inside pages detail a fierce constitutional debate between President Andrew Jackson, his successor Martin Van Buren, and Whig challenger William Henry Harrison over how to manage a massive federal budget surplus—the unique byproduct of Jackson eliminating the national debt and a speculative boom in public land sales. The historical significance of this specific printing lies in its profound dramatic irony: while these leaders actively debated how to distribute the treasury's excess wealth to the states through the Deposit Act of 1836, Jackson’s aggressive anti-bank policies and his "Specie Circular" (requiring gold or silver for land purchases) were inadvertently triggering a severe monetary contraction. Within less than a year, this unprecedented surplus vanished, transforming the nation's absolute financial confidence into the Panic of 1837, one of the most devastating and prolonged economic depressions in early American history.

Item from last month's catalog - #365 - released for April, 2026