To the people of Pennsylvania. Friends and fellow-citizens
Subtitle: 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 ..
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 20248.
Publisher: Printed by Eleazer Oswald?
Published: 1787
Place of publication: [Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: United States.; Federal government -- United States.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789.
Work titles: Centinel, No. I.
Notes: Attacking the proposed federal Constitution; signed: Centinel.

Textually 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.

Evans, 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.

Text in two columns.

Evans 20248.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20248)