THE GUILLOTINA, OR A DEMOCRATIC DIRGE, A POEM. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE "DEMOCRATIAD. by [Hopkins, Lemuel] - 1796

Philadelphia: Sold at the Political Book-Store, 1796. 14pp, lacking the bookseller advertisement at page [15]. Else Very Good in modern half brown morocco with gilt-lettered spine title.

Hopkins pours out his wrath upon his enemies, the Democrats, who are no longer fellow-countrymen but traitors.
"By the time Lemuel Hopkins published The Guillotina, or, a Democratic Dirge in 1796, the French Revolution, Whiskey Rebellion, and Jay's Treaty had tightened the battle lines between Federalists and Anti-Federalists, now characterized as protectors of domestic tranquility, on the one hand, and threats to Constitutional unity on the other. The epigraph on the title page of The Guillotina calls Democrats traitors and accuses them of bribery and sedition." [Lee, Republican Rhymes: Constitutional Controversy and the Democratization of the Verse Satire, 1786-1799. Studies in American Humor. 1988, New Series 2, Vol. 6, SPECIAL SECTION: HUMOR IN AMERICAN POETRY (1988), pp. 30-39.]
Evans 30591. Wegelin 205. Gaines, William Cobbett 177.