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The Daily Advertiser
New York, New York County, New York
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An 'Old Customer' writes to Mr. Childs, enclosing an excerpt from the Connecticut Magazine to illustrate a newspaper paragraph. The excerpt denounces the secret circulation of 'CENTINEL' pieces in Connecticut, attributed to George Bryan of Pennsylvania, which insult Washington and Franklin and oppose federal measures, originating from a neighboring state draining commerce.
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THE enclosed (from the Connecticut Magazine) probably will answer as an illustration to a paragraph in your paper of this day. By inserting it, you will oblige
An OLD CUSTOMER.
Dec. 4th.
"A piece called the CENTINEL is circulating with great industry in this State, in the same covered, secret, and insidious manner as British proclamations, pardons, and manifestoes in the days of yore. The writer is said to be a certain superannuated George Bryan, of Pennsylvania. He abounds in scripture quotations, and says General WASHINGTON is a Fool from habit, and Dr. FRANKLIN a Fool from age and infirmity. These pieces are sent in large packets from a neighbouring State, which is draining us of 35,000 l. annually by her import. The Gentleman who is so kind as to favor Connecticut with these modest publications, is either afraid or ashamed to subscribe his name to the letters accompanying them, but from the hand-writing it is conjectured that he enjoys a comfortable salary in the State alluded to, and has been so furious and violent against all federal measures for many years, that he foresees the ceasing and determining of that salary whenever our COMMERCE is properly regulated."
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Author
An Old Customer
Recipient
Mr. Childs
Main Argument
the enclosed excerpt from the connecticut magazine illustrates the secret, insidious circulation of anti-federal 'centinel' pieces insulting washington and franklin, attributed to george bryan and distributed anonymously from a neighboring state to oppose commerce regulation.
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