Centinel, to the people of Pennsylvania. : Number I. Friends, countrymen, and fellow-citizens, Permit one of yourselves to put you in mind of certain liberties and privileges secured to you by the Constitution of this commonwealth, and beg your serious attention to his uninterested opinion upon the plan of fœderal government submitted to your consideration, before you surrender these great and valuable privileges up forever...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryan, Samuel, 1759-1821, author.

Contributor:

Timoleon.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45045.

Standardized Title:

Centinel. No. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Constitution.

United States.

Federal government--United States.

Federal government.

Freedom of the press.

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

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (2 unnumbered pages))

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [publisher not identified], [1787]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Signed: Centinel. Followed by Centinel Number II, and To the printer, signed and dated: Timoleon. New-York, October 24, 1787. Three essays attacking the proposed federal Constitution.

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.

Text in three 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 45045).

Cited in:

Bristol B6461

Shipton and Mooney 45045

Contains:

Bryan, Samuel, 1759-1821. Centinel. No. 2.

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