Plain truth, addressed to the inhabitants of America
Subtitle: containing remarks on a late pamphlet, intitled Common sense : wherein are shewn, that the scheme of independence is ruinous, delusive, and impracticable, that were the author's asseverations, respecting the power of America, as real as nugatory, reconciliation on liberal principles with Great Britain would be exalted policy, and that, circumstanced as we are, permanent liberty and true happiness can only be obtained by reconciliation with that kingdom
By: written by Candidus
Contributors: Chalmers, George, 1742-1825; Galloway, Joseph, 1731-1803; Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804; Inglis, Charles, 1734-1816; Rationalis; Smith, William, 1727-1803
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Philadelphia printed, London reprinted for J. Almon ...
Published: 1776
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Politics and government; Politique et gouvernement
Notes: "First published as an answer to Thos. Paine's Common sense; long attributed to Charles Inglis, a Loyalist, then assistant rector of Trinity Church, New York, later first bishop of Nova Scotia, 1787-1816; also assigned to Wm. Smith, provost of the College of Pennsylvania, Alexander Hamilton, Joseph Galloway, and George Chalmers (The authorship of 'Plain truth' by Paul Leicester Ford, in The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, 1888, v. 12, p. 421-424)." Cf. TPL.

Includes a reply to Paine's "Common sense" signed "Rationalis": p. [38]-44.

Also includes "Extract from the second letter to the people of Pennsylvania, being that part which relates to independency / by a writer under the signature of Cato" (p. [45]-47). Cato has been identified as William Smith--Cf. TPL.

Publisher's advertisement: p. [48].

Signatures: pi² A-F⁴.

References: Sabin 10671; TPL 480.

Includes bibliographical references (Sabin 10671; TPL 480).