"who but a poltroon would listen to the timid counsels of neutrality"
An Address to the People of Great Britain.
Philadelphia: Published by William Cobbett, April, 1798.
Price: $200.00
About the item
First Philadelphia edition. Half-title present. 40 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "who but a poltroon would listen to the timid counsels of neutrality" Stitched. Covers browned, some marginal chipping, spine worn. Evans 34962; Gaines, Cobbett 114; Kress B3753; Goldsmiths 17248 (for first, London ed.).
Item #57824
"When Hannibal is at the gates, who but a poltroon would listen to the timid counsels of neutrality, or attempt to screen himself from the calamity coming on his country, by skulking as a vagabond amid the mountains of Wales or Westmoreland?"
Argument against neutrality and for the need to pay more taxes to reduce the national debt and finance the war against France. The address is dated in type Jan. 20, 1798 and was first published in London.
Printed by Cobbett, whom Gaines reports as selling some 350 copies.
