Little Plain English, Addressed to the People of the United States
Item #78870
[COBBETT, William]. A Little Plain English, Addressed to the People of the United States, on the Treaty, Negociated with His Britannic Majesty, and on the conduct of the President Relative thereto; in Answer to "The Letters of Franklin." With a Supplement Containing an Account of the Turbulent and Factious Proceedings of the Opposers of the Treaty. By Peter Porcupine. Phila.: Thomas Bradford, 1795. 8, 111 pp. ?-title. Modern red morocco-backed cloth. Light uniform toning, some annotations in an early hand on ?-title and title page, else very good. HOWES C-521. Evans 28437. Gaines 7a. Pearl 8. Reese, Federal Hundred 57. "The `Letters of Franklin' (No.132), to which this work is largely an answer, were first published in Elezer Oswald's `Independent Gazetteer' in Philadelphia beginning March 9, 1795, and ending June 12, 1795. .It is often attributed to Oswald, but is more likely by Alexander James Dallas."-Gaines. He was a lawyer and is noted as having, with Hallam, attempted to introduce regular theatre to Philadelphia. Dallas was on the Committee of Correspondence that organized the first Democratic society in the United States in 1793. He strongly opposed a treaty with Britain and drew Cobbett's fire. With the publication of an abstract of the proposed Treaty in June 1795 in the "Aurora" demonstrations broke out.
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