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 original pamphlet of 1805. To the Citizens of Pennsylvania on the Proposal for Calling a Convention I resided in the capital of your State (Philadelphia) in the “time that tried men’s souls,” and all my political writings, during the Revolutionary War, were written in that city, it seems natural for me to look
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Another Callender — THOMAS TURNER OF VIRGINIA — No. I from the American Citizen, July 23 & 24, 1805. Federalism and blackguardism are synonimous terms. A man of Virginia who signs himself Thomas Turner (if any body knows him) has written a letter to some nobody or other in Massachusetts (if any body knows such
Philip Foner’s introduction: This interesting article on English affairs appeared in the Baltimore Evening Post of July 8, 1805, and has never before been reprinted or even mentioned in any discussion of Paine’s writings. It was preceded by an introductory comment by the editor of the Post which went: “The following excellent remarks upon English
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from the 1810 first printing, submitted by Mde. Bonneville for printing, who probably edited the manuscript heavily to soften its anti-Catholic sentiments. IT is always understood that Free-Masons have a secret which they carefully conceal; but from every thing that can be collected from their own accounts of Masonry their real secret is no other
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Of Constitutions, Governments, & Charters. from the American Citizen, June 6, 1805. THE people of Pennsylvania are, at this time, earnestly occupied on the subject of calling a convention to revise their state constitution, and there can be but little doubt that a revision is necessary. It is a constitution, they say, for the emolument
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from the Aurora, September 22, 1804 A publication having the appearance of a memorial and remonstrance, to be presented to Congress at the ensuing session, has appeared in several papers. It is therefore open to examination, and I offer you my remarks upon it. The title and introductory paragraph are as follows: “To the Congress
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From the Aurora in Philadelphia of August 7, 1804: REMARKS *On Governeur Morrisis funeral oration on general Hamilton. The quotations from the oration are taken from Cheetham’s N. York country paper, the Watch-Tower, of July 18. AS Governeur Morris is fond of criticizing others, he becomes a fair object for criticism himself. Give and take
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From the Philadelphia Aurora, March 6, 1804. TO THE EDITOR. As the good sense of the people in their elections have now put the affairs of the union in a prosperous condition at home, and abroad, there is nothing immediately important for the subject of a letter, I therefore send you a piece on another
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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
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
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