British Society Organizes For Paine’s Monument
Cobbett was obliged to abandon his design, and the committee now call upon the people—whom they consider the proper parties—to come forward and accomplish it.
Cobbett was obliged to abandon his design, and the committee now call upon the people—whom they consider the proper parties—to come forward and accomplish it.
The admirers of the writings of this noble author commemorated his birth by partaking of a plain but substantial supper, on Saturday night, Jan. 29, at the Travellers’ Rest, Penysheol.
The above event was celebrated by a supper on Friday last. The room was beautifully decorated with portraits of Paine, Frost, M’Douall, Oastler, etc.
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Prospectus of the East London Democratic Association from a copy in the Lovett Collection, Birmingham, reproduced in The Early Chartists by Dorothy Thompson.
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A number of petitions were presented for the better observance of the Sabbath, which Mr. Cobbett condemned as originating in pounds feelings, and not in a respect for the Gospel.
A dinner was given yesterday, at the City of London Tavern, to commemorate the birth-day of the notorious Tom Paine.
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Yesterday evening, there was a numerously attended dinner party at the White Hart, Bishopsgate-street, to celebrate the anniversary of Thomas Paine’s Birth.
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A number of vulgar persons, admirers of the writings of Thomas Paine, met on Wednesday, in the Brewer-street Assembly-rooms, to celebrate that individual’s birth-day.
The famous Thomas Paine was one of the most indolent men. During our revolutionary struggles, he, with the celebrated Dr. Rittenhouse.
I went about two miles from the mail road, at New Rochelle, to the farm-house and tomb of Thomas Paine; it is twenty miles from New York.
This is not at all a question of religion. It is a question of moral truth. Whether Mr. Paine’s opinions were correct, or erroneous, has nothing to do with this matter.