OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE PAMPHLET, ENTITULED, "CONSIDERATIONS UPON THE SOCIETY OR ORDER OF THE CINCINNATI," CLEARLY EVINCING THE INNOCENCE AND PROPRIETY OF THAT HONOURABLE AND RESPECTABLE INSTITUTION

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Book desription: Philadelphia. 1783.. 28pp. plus [4]pp. of ads. Dbd. Somewhat tanned, titlepage a trifle soiled, else good. This copy is interesting in a book publishing sense. The ads are made up of titlepages of other publications by Robert Bell, the printer. This pamphlet defending the Society of the Cincinnati was probably written by Stephen Moylan, one of the founders of the Society. He calls a free press "the PILLAR that supports the whole fabric of freedom"; but, he observes, "The fairest blossom is the reptile's food," and a licentious press has gorged itself on a slander of the noble Society. That slander, Howes informs, was a pamphlet published anonymously by Aedanus Burke earlier in 1783, attacking the Society. The Plan for Establishing the Society or Order of the Cincinnati, created in the year of this publication, is reproduced here, and the author defends the Society with skill and wit. SABIN 56486. HOWES O9. EVANS 18073. HILDEBURN 4330.

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