“
instituted by the Major-Generals, Brigadier-Generals, and other officers of the American army,
proving that it creates a race of hereditary Patricians or Nobility; interspersed with remarks on its consequences to the
freedom and happiness of the Republic: addressed to the people of South-Carolina
,
and their representatives: by Cassius. Supposed to be written by Ædanus Burke, Esquire, one of the Chief Justices of the
State of South Carolina:
Avec cette épigraphe,
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion.
"Ce pamphlet, peu on point connu en Europe, contient en substance l’ouvrage que nous rendons public. Si je me suis permis
de changer l’ordre des idées, d’élaguer des longueurs, de supprimer quelques détails relatifs à la Caroline Méridionale, qui
m’ont paru trop particuliers à cet Etat pour ne pas faire digression dans des observations générales; c’est que je pense,
qu’à transporter dans notre langue des écrits étrangers, il faut les rendre les plus faciles à lire qu’il est possible. Or
chaque langue & chaque nation a des manières différentes d’arranger & d’énoncer ses idées.”
The Order of the Cincinnati was founded by Henry Knox, its first Secretary General, in 1783, with George Washington the first
President.
Other works by Honoré Gabriel Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau, appear in this catalogue.
[3024]
J. 291
Tracts. Politics of America. viz................................................
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Burke on the Cincinnati.
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Circular letter of the Cincinnati.
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8
vo.
Considñs on the act of Virginia for religious freedom.
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Knox’s plan for the militia of the U. S...............................
}
1815 Catalogue, page 105. no. 251, Tracts, politics of America, to wit, Burke, Knox, &c. 8vo.
Seven pamphlets bound together in one volume, small 8vo., including one tract in quarto, the leaves folded to fit the octavo
volume, French calf, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges, with the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
JA36 .P8 Vol. 95
Only four are listed by Jefferson in the manuscript catalogue, the same four titles written by him on the fly-leaf at the beginning. Five of the tracts are numbered on the title-pages.
Burke on the Cincinnati.
i. BURKE, Æ
danus.
Considerations on the Society or Order of Cincinnati; lately instituted by the Major-Generals, Brigadier-Generals, and other
officers of the American army. Proving that it creates a race of hereditary patricians, or nobility. Interspersed with remarks
on its consequences to the freedom and happiness of the Republic. Addressed to the people of South-Carolina, and their representatives.
By Cassius. Supposed to be written by Ædanus Burke, Esquire, one of the Chief Justices of the State of South-Carolina . . .
Philadelphia: printed and sold by
Robert Bell, in Third-Street. Price,
one-sixth of a dollar.
m,dcc,lxxxiii
. [1783.]
