To Henry Laurens December 15, 1778 PHILADELPHIA,. DEAR SIR: In this morning’s paper is a piece addressed to Mr. Deane, in which your name is mentioned. My intention in relating the circumstances with which it is connected is to prevent the enemy drawing any unjust conclusions from an accidental division in the House on matters […]
To Henry Laurens December 15, 1778 Read Post »
To SILAS DEANE, Esq; From Pennsylvania Packet, December 15, 1778. AFTER reading a few lines of your address to the public in the Pennsylvania Packet of December 6th, I can truly say, that concern got the better of curiosity, and I felt an unwillingness to go through it. Mr. Deane must very well know that
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A SERIOUS ADDRESS to the PEOPLE of PENNSYLVANIA, on the present situation of their affairs. from the Pennsylvania Packet, December 1, 5, 10, 12, 1778. Unwilling as I have been to have my attention called from the great object of the Continent, I now find it necessary to pay some regard to the peace and
The Crisis. No. VII. from the Pennsylvania Packet, November 12, 1778 To the PEOPLE of ENGLAND THERE are stages in the business of serious life in which to amuse is cruel, but to deceive is to destroy; and it is of little consequence, in the conclusion, whether men deceive themselves, or submit, by a kind
From the original letter at the American Philosophical Society: Philadelphia, Oct. 24th 1778 Dear Honored Sir I congratulate you on your accession to the State of Minister Plenipotentiary. Could you have lived to fill a particular point in the Circle of human Affairs, it would have been That to which you are now so honorably
To Benjamin Franklin October 24, 1778 Read Post »
The CRISIS. No. VI. From the Pennsylvania Packet, October 22, 1778. To the Earl of CARLISLE, General CLINTON, and WILLIAM EDEN, Esq; British Commissioners, at New-York. THERE is a dignity in the warm passions of a whig, which is never to be found in the cold malice of a tory. In the one nature is
From the original letter at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania: York Town, June 5th 1778 Sir As a general opinion prevails that the Enemy will quit Philadelphia, I take the Liberty of transmitting you my reasons why it is probable they will not. In your difficult and distinguished situation every hint may be useful. I
To his Excellency George Washington June 5th, 1778 Read Post »
From the original letter at the American Philosophical Society YORKTOWN, May 16th, 1778 Dear Sir In the Packet No. 1 I have sent you a long letter acknowledging your favor of Oct. 7. Mr. Temple Franklin’s of March 1st which on account of the great Quantity of public business I have not time to copy
To the Honorable Benjamin Franklin, Esqr. May 16, 1778 Read Post »
To the Honorable Benjamin Franklin May 16, 1778 YORKTOWN, DEAR SIR: Your favor of October 7th did not come to me till March. I was at Camp when Captain Folger arrived with the Blank Packet. The private letters were, I believe, all safe. Mr. Laurens forwarded yours to me but by some accident it missed
To the Honorable Benjamin Franklin May 16, 1778 Read Post »
From the original letter at the American Philosophical Society Lancaster, April 11, 1778 SIR: I take the liberty of mentioning an affair to you which I think deserves the attention of Congress. The persons who came from Philadelphia some time ago with, or in Company with, a flag from the Enemy, and were taken up
To Henry Laurens April 11, 1778 Read Post »
From the Public Advertiser of New-York, May 30,1807: OF USEFUL CITIZENS. The following is from a letter from Thomas Paine to the late Henry Laurens of South Carolina one of the Presidents of the old Congress. As the ideas in it correspond with Duane’s Politics for Farmers and Mechanics and may be useful, we have
To Henry Laurens Spring 1778 Read Post »
The American Crisis. Number V. From the original pamphlet of March 23, 1778. TO General Sir WILLIAM HOWE. TO argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose Philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavouring to convert an Atheist by
