From the Independent gazetteer, &c. Centinel No. V. To the people of Pennsylvania. : Friends, countrymen, and fellow-citizens, Mr. Wilson in a speech delivered in our convention on Saturday the 24th instant, has conceded, nay forceably proved, that one consolidated government, will not answer for so extensive a territory as the United States includes, that slavery would be the necessary state of the people under such a government ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryan, Samuel, 1759-1821, author.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 45046.

Standardized Title:

Centinel. No. 5

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 and dated: Centinel. Philadelphia, Nov. 30, 1787.

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.

Eleazer Oswald printed the Independent gazetteer in 1787.

Text in three columns; printed area measures 25.8 x 20.4 cm.

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 45046).

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Bristol B6462

Shipton and Mooney 45046

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