A Friendly Address

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EDTF Date Created
1774
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A friendly address to all reasonable Americans, on the subject of our political confusions: in which the necessary consequences of violently opposing the king's troops, and of a general non-importation are fairly stated, Attributed to Thomas Bradbury Chandler and Myles Cooper -- 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-exportation, 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 / by a farmer. Attributed to Samuel Seabury, sometimes also attributed to Isaac Wilkins. Pages 52-56: Includes "Postscript" with extracts from the Capitulation of Canada and the Treaty of Paris.
Anonymous. Attributed to Thomas Bradbury Chandler by NUC pre-1956 imprints and in Chandler’s "Loyalist claim."
Also attributed to Myles Cooper. For evidence of authorship, cf. Vance, C.H. "Myles Cooper" (Columbia university quarterly, Sept. 1930, vol. XXII, no. 3, p. 275-276).
FAU Libraries' copy inscribed at bottom of title-page: "Dr. Chandler of New Jersey." Appears to have been trimmed; rebound in contemporary patterned leather binding with gold tooling on spine and covers; all gilt edges. The endpapers are marbled. FAU Libraries has 3 different physical versions see Weiner Speeches Box 2 Folder 16 and Box 3 Folder 14
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Florida Atlantic University Libraries' Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection, Pamphlets: Speeches B2F16

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Type
Genre
Extent
56 pages ; 20 cm
Identifier
fauwsb2f16
Additional Information
Florida Atlantic University Libraries' Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection, Pamphlets: Speeches B2F16
Florida Atlantic Digital Library Collections
Date Created Backup
1774
Date Created (EDTF)
1774
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FAU
FAU

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fauwsb2f16
Person Preferred Name

Chandler, Thomas Bradbury 1726-1790
Physical Description

online resource
56 pages ; 20 cm
Title Plain
A Friendly Address
Use and Reproduction
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
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1774

New York

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New York
Title
A Friendly Address
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A Friendly Address