Centinel, No. II
Subtitle: To the people of Pennslvania. Friends, countrymen, and fellow-citizens, As long as the liberty of the press continues unviolated, and the people have the right of expressing and publishing their sentiments upon every public measure, it is next to impossible to enslave a free nation. ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 20249
Publisher: Printed by Francis Bailey, at Yorick's Head, in Market Street, Philadelphia.
Published: 1787
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Constitutions; Federal government; Freedom of the press; Politics and government; Constitutional law
Notes: Attacking the proposed federal Constitution; signed on p. 2: Centinel.

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.

Another issue, with type reset in last paragraph of first column on p. 2, lacks imprint.

Text in two columns.

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