Letters, addressed to the yeomanry of the United States: shewing the necessity of confining the public revenue to a fixed proportion of the net produce of the land; and the bad policy and injustice of every species of indirect taxation and commercial regulations. By a farmer.

Philadelphia: Printed by Eleazer Oswald, in Market-street, No. 156, between Fourth and Fifth-streets. 1791.

47 p. ; 21 cm.

BEIN NZ Z791La: The authorship of this pamphlet and of "Five letters addressed to the yeomanry of the United States ... by a farmer, Philadelphia, 1792", and the similar "Letters ... by an American farmer", Philadelphia, 1793, is attributed to George Logan on the authority of Citizen Adet who had a copy of the Letters, 1793, with manuscript dedication "from his friend, the author", whom Adet identified as "Dr. Laughan" [i.e. George Logan] cf. Rich, Suppl. to the Biblioth. amer. nova, pt.1 (1841) 1793, no.26; also Ford, P. L., Biblioth. Hamiltoniana, 1886, nos. 47, 50, 52.

Signatures: [A]-F4.

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June 01, 2002