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AMERICAN REVOLUTION - [SEABURY, Samuel]. Free Thoughts, on The Proceedings of the Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia Sept. 5, 1774: Wherein Their Errors are exhibited, their Reasonings Confuted, and The fatal Tendency of their Non-Importation, Non-Ex- portation, and Non-Consumption Measures, are laid open to the plainest Understandings; and The Only Means pointed out For Preserving and Securing Our present Happy Constitution: In A Letter to The Farmers, and other Inhabitants of North America In General, And to those of the Province of New-York In Particular. [New York: Printed by James Rivington], 1774. 8vo (183 x 115 mm). Modern half brown leather over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Condition: repair and ink writing to title, front endpaper and flyleaf detached, ink names to final leaf. Sabin 78574. first edition of this inflammatory argument questioning the continental congress. Anonymously authored on the title page "By a Farmer. Hear me, for I will speak!", the pamphlet was written by the first American Episcopal Bishop, Samuel Seabury. On the opening page Seabury proclaims "We ardently expected that some prudent scheme of accommodating our unhappy disputes with the Mother-Country, would have been adopted and pursued. But alas! they are broken up without ever attempting it: they have taken no one step that tended to peace: they have gone on from bad to worse, and have either ignorantly misunderstood, carelessly neglected, or basely betrayed the interests of all the Colonies. I shall in this, and some future publication, support this charge against the Congress. . ." Seabury's writing inspired the then 17 year old Alexander Hamilton to publish his first work, A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress.ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images:
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