Considerations on the Society or Order of Cincinnati, lately instituted by the major-generals, brigadiers, and other officers of the American army. : proving that it creates, a race of hereditary patricians, or nobility : and interspersed with remarks on its consequences to the freedom and happiness of the republick : addressed to the people of South-Carolina, and their representatives

Considerations on the Society or Order of Cincinnati, lately instituted by the major-generals, brigadiers, and other officers of the American army. : proving that it creates, a race of hereditary patricians, or nobility : and interspersed with remarks on its consequences to the freedom and happiness of the republick : addressed to the people of South-Carolina, and their representatives

[2nd issue]

Charleston : Printed for A. Timothy ..., 1783.

33 [i.e., 34] p. ; 19 cm. (8vo)

L2014F191 1783

(OCoLC)207652138

Attributed to Aedanus Burke in editions printed in Hartford and Philadelphia in the same year.
Signatures: [A]4 B-D4 [E]1.
Early attack on the Society by a justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Page 34 misnumbered 33.
Second issue of the 1st ed. published in Charleston; includes postscript at end: "Since the foregoing publication was in the press, a set of "rules and by laws of the Society of the Cincinnati established in South-Carolina," have been printed and handed about this city. I have peruse'd their rules and I am more convinced than ever, that the institution is one of the most extraordinary factions, which the story of Republics furnishes any account of ..."
Ms. note at head of title: "To Mr. E. Duff ...[?]"

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