From the original letter at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Dear friend I have just a moment to write you a line by a friend who is on the point of sailing for Bordeaux. The republican interest in now completely triumphant. The change within this last year has been great. We have now 14 states […]
To Citizen Skipwith March 1, 1804 Read Post »
The articles below are from The Prospect, a magazine started by Elihu Palmer, and to which Paine contributed 13 essays. Four essays in this collection are deattributed works: “Of Cain and Abel” (Palmer is the author), “Of the Old and New Testaments” (author unknown), “To the Members of the Society”(unknown), and “On the Sabbath Day
From Richard Gimbel’s pamphlet New Political Writings by Thomas Paine Stonington, Connecticut Oct 10 1803 Dear Sir During my absence from Bordenton your friendly letter arrived there which I received on my return and as I then intended coming on to the eastward I had hopes of making my thanks to you personally, but the
To Elisha Babcock 1803-10-10 Read Post »
From the original letter at the Library of Congress. Stonington, Connecticut Sept. 23 Dear Sir Your two favours of the 10 & 18 ult. reached me at this place on the 14 Inst, also one from Mr. Madison. I do not suppose that the framers of the Constitution thought any thing about the acquisition of
To Thomas Jefferson September 23, 1803 Read Post »
From the original letter at the TPNHA Collecetion at Iona College. Bordenton on the Delaware Augst 6 1803 I wrote a few days ago to Mr. Breckenridge of Kentucky on the subject of Louisiana, or rather on the manner of bringing it before Congress. I put the letter under cover to Mr. Jefferson who, as
To James Madison August 6, 1803 Read Post »
To John C. Breckenridge Aug. 2, 1803 BORDENTOWN, MY DEAR FRIEND: Not knowing your place of Residence in Kentucky I send this under cover to the President desiring him to fill up the direction. I see by the public papers and the Proclamation for calling Congress, that the cession of Louisiana had been obtained. The
To John C. Breckenridge Aug. 2, 1803 Read Post »
From the original letter at the Library of Congress. Bordenton on the Delaware Aug. 2. 1803 Dear Sir I enclose a letter for Mr. Breckenridge, but as I knew not his residence in Kentucky I will be obliged to you fill up the direction and forward it to him after putting a Wafer on it.
To Thomas Jefferson August 2, 1803 Read Post »
From the original letter at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Bordenton – July 29th – 1803 Dear friend – I received your favour per packet. I enclose you the invoice. The two long cases 2 & 3 contain the models of the Bridge – These I wish you to open. The one is a model
To Charles W. Peale July 29th, 1803 Read Post »
To James Monroe July, 1803 LOUISIANA All the business, with respects to the settlement of Louisiana, has been arranged at the Bureau of the Minister of Marine and the colonies, and the greater part, if not the whole, so far as it respects the settlement of it as a French colony, has passed through the
To James Monroe July, 1803 Read Post »
BY THOMAS PAINE, JULY, 1803. QUICK as the lightning’s vivid flash The poet’s eye o’er Europe rolls; Sees battles rage, hears tempests crash, And dims at horror’s threatening scowls. Mark ambition’s ruthless king, With crimsoned banners scathe the globe; While trailing after conquest’s wing, Man’s festering wounds his demons probe. Palled with streams of reeking
As bridges and the method of constructing them are becoming objects of great importance throughout the United States, and as there are at this time proposals for a bridge over the Delaware, and also a bridge beginning to be erected over the Schuylkill at Philadelphia, I present the public with some account of the construction
The Construction of Iron Bridges Read Post »
To Thomas Clio Rickman March 8, 1803 NEW YORK, MY DEAR FRIEND: Mr. Monroe, who is appointed Minister Extraordinary to France, takes charge of this, to be delivered to Mr. Este, banker, in Paris, to be forwarded to you. I arrived at Baltimore on the 30th October, and you can have no idea of the
To Thomas Clio Rickman March 8, 1803 Read Post »
