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
Subjects: Constitutions; Federal government; Politics and government; Constitutional law
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.

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