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 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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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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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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