AN ADDRESS TO THE FREEMEN OF PENNSYLVANIA, FROM THE COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, APPOINTED, BY THE FRIENDS OF JAMES ROSS, TO CORRESPOND WITH THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS ON THE SUBJECT OF THE ELECTION OF A GOVERNOR. by [Hopkinson, Joseph?]: : David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC : Specializing in the social, political, and cultural history of the Americas.

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AN ADDRESS TO THE FREEMEN OF PENNSYLVANIA, FROM THE COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, APPOINTED, BY THE FRIENDS OF JAMES ROSS, TO CORRESPOND WITH THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS ON THE SUBJECT OF THE ELECTION OF A GOVERNOR.

Zachariah Poulson, Jr., Germantown: 1799 24pp, later stitching, untrimmed, no half title. Very Good. Supporting James Ross, Federalist candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, the Committee rebuts a variety of slanderous charges against him, including the unfounded allegation that he is a Deist. Ross lost the election to the Jeffersonian Thomas McKean, whom this Address accuses of hostility to England and of a partiality to France "ruinous, to the honor, independence and interest of our common country." The Committee objects to McKean's alleged characterization of the Revolution as a 'civil war.' If "this doctrine...is true, you have been mistaken in observing the fourth day of July, 1776, as the birth day of your Independence. You must have been...in a state of civil war." Gaines attributes authorship to Hopkinson, a Philadelphia Federalist, the son of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and an eminent lawyer. But he is not listed here as a member of the Committee. Included with this Address is a letter from the Federalist Judge Alexander Addison, who would several years later be impeached by the Jeffersonian Pennsylvania legislature. FIRST EDITION. Evans 35081. Gaines 99-04.

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