The Weakness of Brutus exposed: / or, some / Remarks / in /
Vindication of the Constitution / proposed by the late / Federal
Convention, / against the / Objections and gloomy Fears of that Writer
/ Humbly offered to the Public, / By / a Citizen of Philadelphia.
/ Philadelphia, / Printed for, and to be had of John Sparhawk, in
Market-Street, / near the Court House / M.DCC.LXXXVII.
12mo., pp. 23.
Written by Pelatiah Webster, a Philadelphia merchant, and author of
a number of pamphlets on the finances and government of the United
States, most of which he reprinted in his “Political Essays” in
Philadelphia in 1791.
Brutus was the signature (of Thomas Treadwell, of Suffolk County,
N.Y.?) to a series of sixteen newspaper essays in the _New York
Journal_, which were extensively copied throughout the country. This
is an answer to the first essay only, and was published November 4th,
1787.