A LETTER TO GEORGE WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: CONTAINING STRICTURES ON HIS ADDRESS ON THE SEVENTEENTH OF SEPTEMBER, 1796, NOTIFYING THE RELINQUISHMENT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE. By Jasper Dwight, of Vermont

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48pp. Antique-style half calf and marbled boards. Minor toning and soiling, bottom corner of titlepage chipped. Very good. A vicious attack on George Washington by the ill-tempered Philadelphia printer and publisher, hiding under a pseudonym. A harsh critique of Washington's services during the Revolution, printed soon after his famous Farewell Address of September 1796. "One of the most violent invectives against Washington." - Sabin. "Transcends in bitterness even Paine's invective" - Howes. Evans lists this work under Friedrich Treziulney, Duane's bookkeeper, describing "the intense hatred edited in, to the opening and closing pages, could only be that of a man who was without citizenship in any country, or political principle which was not opposed to the public opinion of every country wherever he had lived." A rare work, and a classic case of the Federalist- Republican split in the mid-1790s. HOWES D515. EVANS 31315. SABIN 20989. Seller Inventory # WRCAM52694

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