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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.

Author/creator Bryan, Samuel, 1759-1821
Format Book and Microform
Publication Info[Philadelphia] : [Printed by Eleazer Oswald?], [1787]
Description1 sheet (1 unnumbered page)
Subject(s)
Uniform titleCentinel, No. I
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20248
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20248. ^A478749
General noteAttacking the proposed federal Constitution; signed: Centinel.
General noteTextually 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, cf. Konkle, Burton Alva. George Bryan and the Constitution of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1922, p. 308-319.
General noteEvans, 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.
General noteText in two columns.
References Evans 20248
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20248).
Genre/formBroadsides.

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