To the people of Pennsylvania. Friends and fellow-citizens : The late convention have submitted to your consideration a plan of a new federal government ... it ought to be dispassionately and deliberately examined, and its own intrinsic merit the only criterion of your patronage ..

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryan, Samuel, 1759-1821, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20248.

Standardized Title:

Centinel. No. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Constitution.

United States.

Federal government--United States.

Federal government.

United States--Politics and government--1783-1789.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [Printed by Eleazer Oswald?], [1787]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Attacking the proposed federal Constitution; signed: Centinel.

Textually identical, excepting enumeration, first paragraph, and closing quotation, with Centinel, No. I (Bristol B6461). For a discussion of the Centinel papers and attribution to Samuel Bryan, compare Konkle, Burton Alva. George Bryan and the Constitution of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1922, pages 308-319.

Evans, who does not locate a copy, supplies imprint: Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Bailey, 1787. However, Konkle states that only Centinel No. II was published by Bailey while all others were printed by Eleazer Oswald.

Text in two columns.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 20248).

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