The AMERICAN CRISIS. No. 4. from Pennsylvanis Evening Post, September 13, 1777 THOSE who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. The event of yesterday was one of those kind of alarms which is just sufficient to rouse us to duty, without being of consequence enough […]
To William Bingham July 16, 1777. PHILADELPHIA, SIR: A very sudden opportunity offers of sending you the newspapers, from which you will collect the situation of our Affairs. The enemy finding their attempt of marching through the Jersies to this city impracticable, have retreated to Staten Island seemingly discontented and dispirited and quite at a
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Addressed: The Honble: Benjn Franklin LLD Commissioner from Congress at Paris Philadelphia July 9th. 1777 My Dear Sir The dispatches being made up yesterday I herewith inclose you the papers of last night and this morning. General Howe, by every preparation, is about leaving N. York as he has already retreated from the Army which
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From the original letter at the American Philosophical Society: My Dear Sir Soon after your Absence from this City we began to have a little Military News stirring. On the 11th Inst. Govr. Mifflin by direction from Genl Washington acquainted the Inhabitants at a meeting in the State House yard that from the late preparations
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From the original letter at the American Philosophical Society: Addressed: The Honble: Benn. Franklin L L D. Commissioner from the American States at the Court of Versilles Private PHILADELPHIA, June 20th. 1777 My Dear Sir I have just Time to write you a Word or two, and have the pleasure of acquainting you of my
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Candid and Critical Remarks on LETTER I. Signed LUDLOW. See the Journal, No. 1790. from The Pennsylvania Journal, June 4, 1777 EVERY subject for discussion may be treated two several ways, generally or particularly. In a general review exactness is not expected; but when a writer undertakes to examine and lay down the parts of
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The AMERICAN CRISIS. Number III, By the Author of COMMON SENSE. From the Pamphlet from April, 1777: American Crisis I – III In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experience as
TO THE PEOPLE from Pennsylvania Packet, March 18, 1777. THERE are particular periods both in public and domestic life, in which, the excellence of wisdom consists in a due government of the temper: Without this, zeal degenerates into rage, and affection into bitterness. And so necessary is this qualification, in every stage of life, that
The AMERICAN CRISIS. No. II. By the Author of COMMON SENSE. From the Pennsylvania Packet, January 22, February 4, 11, 18, 1777 To LORD HOWE. “What’s in the name of lord, that I should fear To bring my grievance to the public ear?” CHURCHILL. UNIVERSAL empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are
The AMERICAN CRISIS. No. I from the Pennsylvania Packet, December 27, 1776 and January 4, 1777 THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man
To Anonymous August 16, 1776 Amboy, DEAR SIR: There is a report of a French fleet gone at the River St. Lawrence, on which I remark, that should the French possess themselves of Canada, they will claim according to the extension made by the British Crown. Query. Ought not the Congress to make a reclaim
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from the original pamphlet in July 1776, Philadelphia. To the Public. The rapid return which Politics is taken within the course of a few days, makes it almost impossible for the Press to keep pace therewith; which will account for some few remarks in the first and second of the following Letters, if they should
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