To Citizen Barras December 29, 1797 CITIZEN PRESIDENT: A very particular friend of mine, who had a passport to go to London upon some family affairs and to return in three months, and whom I had commissioned upon some affairs of my own (for I find that the English government has seized upon a thousand […]
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TO THE PEOPLE OF FRANCE AND THE FRENCH ARMIES Philip Foner’s introduction: On the Seventeenth Fructidor, September 3, 1797, the leaders of the majority in the Council of Five Hundred decided to vote the impeachment on the following day of Barras, Reubell, and La Reveillere, members of the French Directory. In case of resistance on
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Philip Foner’s introduction: Monroe was recalled from France on August 22, 1796 by President Washington who had been influenced by Gouverneur Morris, still in Europe, to believe that the American Minister to France had attacked the American chief executive and was organizing an anti-Washington conspiracy among Frenchmen. On his return to the United States, in
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Philip Foner’s introduction: The letter which follows the introduction was addressed to Thomas Erskine who had defended Paine in the government suit conducted in 1792 to suppress Rights of Man, but in 1797 conducted the prosecution of Thomas Williams, a London publisher and bookseller, accused by the Society for the Suppression of Vice and Immorality
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To M. Tallyrand [1797] Rue theatre francais No. 4 CITIZEN MINISTER: I send you the letter to Washington. In two or three days I will give you some thoughts upon American affairs. I presume you do not mean to assure the commissioners of anything at the first interview. It will be best to receive them
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WORSHIP AND CHURCH BELLS, A LETTER TO CAMILLE JORDAN Philip Foner’s introduction: This pamphlet, published in the summer of 1797 in Paris and London, was Paine’s reply to a Report made to the French Convention by Camille Jordan, a royalist lawyer and member of the Council of Five Hundred, recommending the restoration of certain Catholic
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From the original letter at the Library of Congress. Harve May 14th – 97 Dear Sir I wrote to you by the ship Dublin Packet – Capt. Clay, mentioning my intention to have returned to America by that Vessel, and to have suggested to some Member of the house of representatives the propriety of calling
To Thomas Jefferson May 14, 1797 Read Post »
I. AN ANSWER TO A FRIEND PARIS, May 12, 1797 IN your letter of the 20th of March, you give me several quotations from the Bible, which you call the ‘word of God,’ to shew me that my opinions on religion are wrong, and I could give you as many, from the same book to
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From the original letter at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Harve 6th Florial 5 year HAVRE My dear Friend As the Paris papers and some private letters from thence mention your arrival, I take it for granted, and congratulate you upon it; but at the same time I cannot flatter you with much hopes of
To James Madison April 27, 1797 Read Post »
From the original letter at the Library of Congress. Harve de Grace April 1 1797 Dear Friend I left Paris about ten days ago and came to this place intending to take passage in the Dublin Packet for New York, but the vessel being crowded I shall wait another opportunity. Mr. Monroe, whom I left
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To Anonymous March 4, 1797 PARIS, MY DEAR FRIEND: I just write you a line to tell you that I am in existence after a thousand dangers. I am always intending to return to America, and something is always happening to prevent me; the case I believe is that, as I have embarked in this
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To Colonel John Fellows January 20, 1797 PARIS, SIR: Your friend Mr. Caritat being on the point of his departure for America, I make it the opportunity of writing to you. I received two letters from you with some pamphlets a considerable time past, in which you inform me of your entering a copyright of
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