From the original letter now in private hands. New York Broome Street May 4th, 1807 – Old Friend I will first explain the direct occasion of my writing this letter and reserve meums and tuums to follow after. I have a law suit coming on in this State (New York) the 20th of this month, […]
To Joel Barlow May 4, 1807 Read Post »
From the original letter at the American Philosophical Society. New York May 3, 1807 Broome Street Sir When Mr. Monro came Minister from the United States to the french Government I was still imprisoned in the Luxemburg by the Robespierre party in the Convention. The fall of Robespierre took place a few days before Mr.
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THOS. PAINE, To MORGAN LEWIS, ON HIS PROSECUTION OF MR. FARMAR, FOR ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS DAMAGES from the Public Advertiser (New York), April 14, 21, 1807; and the pamphlet Misc. Letters, Essays compiled by R. Carlile, 1819. THE proud integrity of conscious rectitude fears no reproach, and disdains the mercenary idea of damages. It
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OF GUN-BOATS. from the Public Advertiser (New York), March 11, 1807. A gun-boat, carrying heavy metal, is a movable fortification; and there is no mode or system of defense the United States can go into for coasts and harbors or ports, that will be so effectual as by gun-boats. Ships of the line are no
Of the English Navy — from the American Citizen, January 7, 1807. THE boasted navy of England has been the ruin of England. This may appear strange to a set of stupid feds, who have no more foresight than a mole under ground or they would not abuse France as they do; but strange as
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THE battles which decided the fate of the King of Prussia and his Government, began on the 9th of October, and ended on the 14th of that month; but the final event, that of the total overthrow of the Russian army of one hundred and fifty thousand men on the 14th, was not known in
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Of the term “Liberty of the Press“ from the American Citizen, October 20, 1806. THE writer of this remembers a remark made to him by Mr. Jefferson concerning the English Newspapers, which at that time, 1787, while Mr. Jefferson was Minister at Paris, were most vulgarly abusive. The remark applies with equal force to the
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A challenge to the Federalists to declare their principles. from the American Citizen, October 17, 1806. The old names of Whig and Tory have given place to the later names of Republicans and Federalists; by contraction Feds. The word republican contains some meaning though not very positive, except that it is the opposite of monarchy;
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[The original manuscript of this letter is in the library of Harvard University – ed.] I received your friendly letter, for which I am obliged to you. It is three weeks ago today (Sunday, August fifteenth), that I was struck with a fit of apoplexy, that deprived me of all sense and motion. I had
To Andrew Dean, August 15, 1806 Read Post »
Of the cause of Yellow Fever, and the means of preventing it in places not yet infected with it, addresed to the Board of Health. from the American Citizen, June 27, 1806. A great deal has been written respecting the yellow fever. First, with respect to its causes, whether domestic or imported. Secondly, on the
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From the April 26, 1806 Aurora. New Rochelle, April 23, 1806. Mr, Duane – I see, by the English papers, that some conversations have lately taken place in parliament in England, on the subject of repealing the act that incorporated the members elected in Ireland with the parliament elected in England so as to form
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To Anonymous March 20, 1806 NEW ROCHELLE, SIR: I will inform you of what I know respecting General Miranda, with whom I first became acquainted at New York, about the year 1783. He is a man of talents and enterprise, and the whole of his life has been a life of adventures. I went to
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