THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, FREE AND INDEPENDENT, TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, OR MAY CONCERN, SEND GREETING : KNOW YE, That the annexed is a true copy of the will of THOMAS PAINE, deceased, as recorded in the office of the surrogate, in […]
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REMARKS ON ROMANS, IX, 18-21 Addressed to the Ministers of the Calvinistic Church Philip Foner’s introduction: These are generally believed to be the last words written by Paine before his death, June 8, 1809. They were published in the form of an article in 1820 in London by Mary Ann Carlile, wife of the English
From the original letter at the Library of Congress. New York Partition Street No 63 July 8th, 1808. Dear Sir On the 21st Jany I presented a Memorial to Congress and after waiting a considerable time and hearing nothing of it, I wrote to George Clinton Junior who presented the Memorial to Congress desiring some
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from the Public Advertiser (New York), August 18, 1807. THE election for Charter Officers last year was carried by the federal and quid trick of fortifications, and now the people are to be amused and duped to a new obstructions. The only eligible mode of obstruction is that proposed by Franklin for the Delaware in
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From the records of the Annals of Congress, 10th Congress, 2nd Session. NEW YORK, March 7, 1808. SIR: I wrote you a week ago, prior to the date of this letter, respecting my memorial to Congress, but I have not yet seen an account of any proceedings upon it. I know not who the Committee
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From the records of the Annals of Congress, 10th Congress, 2nd Session. New York, Partition Street, No. 63, February 28, 1808 SIR: I addressed a memorial to Congress dated January 21, which was presented by George Clinton, Junior, and referred to the Committee of Claims. As soon as I knew to what committee it was
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From the records of the American State Papers, No. 189, 10th Congress, First Session. To the honorable the Senate of the United States: New York, January 21, 1808. THE purport of this address is to state a claim I feel myself entitled to make on the United States, leaving it to their representatives in Congress
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To James Monroe December 30, 1807 Broome Street, New York, DEAR SIR: I congratulate and welcome you very sincerely on your return home. The British Government is mad and every thing [they] do or attempt to do prove them to be so. I received a letter from London dated Oct[ober] 15 which I have sent
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CHEETHAM AND HIS TORY PAPER. from the Public Advertiser (New York), September 26, 1807. CHEETHAM is frequently giving symptoms of being the successor of Cullen, alias Carpenter, as Cullen was the successor of Cobbett, alias Porcupine. Like him he is seeking to involve the United States in a quarrel with France for the benefit of
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*On the Question, WILL THERE BE WAR? from the Public Advertiser (New York), August 15, 1807. Every one asks, Will there be war? The answer to this is easy, which is, That so long as the English government be permitted, at her own discretion, to search, capture, and condemn our vessels, controul our commerce, impress
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GUN-BOATS, AND FORTIFICATIONS [This article is reprinted from Miscellaneous Letters and Writings of Thomas Paine, London, 1819, pp. 221-25.-Editor.] THE natural defense by men is common to all nations; but artificial defense as an auxiliary to human strength must be adapted to the local condition and circumstances of a country. What may be suitable to
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To George Clinton May 4, 1807 NEW YORK, RESPECTED FRIEND: Elisha Ward and three or four other Tories who lived within the British lines in the Revolutionary war, got in to be inspectors of the election last year at New Rochelle. Ward was supervisor. These men refused my vote at the election, saying to me:
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