It is, or should be, the policy of the United States, in the establishment of temporary governments over her territories, to adopt the best and most judicious means of guarding the happiness, liberty, and property of her foster children, so that when they enter the great family of the Union, that they may be worthy of that exalted station.
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From later in 1837 the Library possesses Iowa News, which replaced the Du Buque Visitor after its expiration in May, in an imperfect file extending from June 17 (the third number) to December 23. The Library also has the Wisconsin Territorial Gazette and Burlington Advertiser, printed at Burlington, in another incomplete file from July 10 to December 2. The Library's three files of very early Iowa newspapers have a common provenance, as most issues of each file are addressed in manuscript to the Department of State, which was in charge of Territorial affairs until 1873. These newspapers were transferred to the Library of Congress sometime before the end of the 19th century.[102]
[100] The full contract is quoted in Alexander Moffit's article, "Iowa Imprints Before 1861," in The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, vol. 36, 1938, p. 152-205. For a biography of Jones, see William Coyle, ed. Ohio Authors and Their Books (Cleveland, 1962, p. 346).
[101] Vol. 1, nos. 37-52; no. 47 wanting. The May 10 and May 17 issues are both numbered 52.
[102] They are recorded in A Check List of American Newspapers in the Library of Congress (1901).
In the Library's Broadside Collection (portfolio 19, no. 34) is a printed notice of the Des Moines Land Company, with text dated from Des Moines, September 4, 1837. This item cannot have been printed at Des Moines, since printing did not reach there until 1849. It is not listed in Alexander Moffit's "A Checklist of Iowa Imprints 1837-1860," in The Iowa Journal of History and Politics, vol. 36 1938, p. 3-95.