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 ...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American imprints. Evans (1639-1800) ;
no. 20248. |
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| Online Access: | Evans Digital Edition |
| Item Description: | Attacking the proposed federal Constitution; signed: Centinel. Textually identical, excepting enumeration, first paragraph, and closing quotation, with Centinel, Number I (Bristol B6461). For a discussion of the Centinel papers and attribution to Samuel Bryan, cf. 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 Number II was published by Bailey while all others were printed by Eleazer Oswald. Text in two columns. Electronic resource. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |