From the Independent gazetteer, &c. Centinel No. V. To the people of Pennsylvania
Subtitle: Friends, countrymen, and fellow-citizens, Mr. Wilson in a speech delivered in our convention on Saturday the 24th instant, has conceded, nay forceably proved, that one consolidated government, will not answer for so extensive a territory as the United States includes, that slavery would be the necessary state of the people under such a government ...
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 45046
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. V
Notes: Attacking the proposed federal Constitution; signed and dated: Centinel. Philadelphia, Nov. 30, 1787.

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.

Eleazer Oswald printed the Independent gazetteer in 1787.

Text in three columns; printed area measures 25.8 x 20.4 cm.

Bristol B6462

Shipton & Mooney 45046