Authors: Centinel

1787–1789

Centinel 10

To THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Fellow Citizens. What illustrious evidence and striking demonstration does the present momentous discussion afford of the inestimable value of the liberty of the press? No

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1787–1789

Centinel 9

To THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA. Fellow Citizens, You have the peculiar felicity of living under the most perfect system of local government in the world; prize then this invaluable blessing

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1787–1789

Centinel 6

To the PEOPLE of PENNSYLVANIA. “Man is the glory, jest, and riddle of the world.” POPE. Incredible transition! the people who seven years ago, deemed every earthly good, every other

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1787–1789

An American: The Crisis

“These are the times that try men’s souls”-and he who now espouses the cause of his country, will receive the thanks thereof and of posterity, and the applause of the

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1787–1789

Massachusetts Centinel

Every circumstance conspires to prove this great truth, that the consequence of the people’s rejecting the federal Constitution, will be Anarchy in the extreme. If then, only the possibility of

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1787–1789

Centinel 2

CENTINEL, No. II. To the PEOPLE of PENNSYLVANIA. FRIENDS, COUNTRYMEN, and FELLOW-CITIZENS, As long as the liberty of the press continues unviolated, and the people have the right of expressing

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1787–1789

Centinel 8

To the People of Pennsylvania Fellow Citizens, Under the benign influence of liberty, this country, so recently a rugged wilderness and the abode of savages and wild beasts, has attained

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1787–1789

Centinel 7

To the People of Pennsylvania. Friends and Fellow-Citizens! The admiring world lately beheld the sun of liberty risen to meridian splendour in this western hemisphere, whose chearing rays began to

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1787–1789

Centinel 3

To the PEOPLE of PENNSYLVANIA. John 3d, verse 20th”For every one that doeth evil, hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.” But ”

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1787–1789

Centinel 4

To the People of Pennsylvania. Friends, Countrymen, and Fellow Citizens, That the present Confederation is inadequate to the objects of the union, seems to be universally allowed. The only question

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