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

Burke, Aedanus 1743-1802
1784
L2022G1 1784
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Considerations on the Society or Order of Cincinnati : lately instituted by the major-generals, brigadier-generals, and other officers of the American army : proving that it creates a race of hereditary patricians, or nobility : interspersed with remarks on its consequences to the freedom and happiness of the republic : addressed to the people of South-Carolina, and their representatives
Published
Philadelphia, printed ; Newport, Rhode Island : Re-printed and sold by S. Southwick ..., [1784]
Description
16 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)
Call Number
L2022G1 1784
System Control No.
(OCoLC)55955591
Note
Signatures: [A]8.
Signed and dated on p. 15: Charleston, October, 1783.
Early attack on the Society by a justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court.
In ink on front pastedown: "Written in 1783" (dated 1783 by Evans, but advertised as "just published" in the United States chronicle, March 18, 1784).
Gift in memory of C.A. Philippe von Hemert, New York State Society of the Cincinnati, by his three sons, 2022.
Indexed In
Evans 17866
ESTC W11917
Added Author
Burke, Aedanus 1743-1802
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