To James Monroe December 30, 1807 Broome Street, New York, DEAR SIR: I congratulate and welcome you very sincerely on your return home. The British Government is mad and every thing [they] do or attempt to do prove them to be so. I received a letter from London dated Oct[ober] 15 which I have sent […]
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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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To George Clinton May 4, 1807 NEW YORK, RESPECTED FRIEND: Elisha Ward and three or four other Tories who lived within the British lines in the Revolutionary war, got in to be inspectors of the election last year at New Rochelle. Ward was supervisor. These men refused my vote at the election, saying to me:
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From the original letter now in private hands. New York Broome Street May 4th, 1807 – Old Friend I will first explain the direct occasion of my writing this letter and reserve meums and tuums to follow after. I have a law suit coming on in this State (New York) the 20th of this month,
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From the original letter at the American Philosophical Society. New York May 3, 1807 Broome Street Sir When Mr. Monro came Minister from the United States to the french Government I was still imprisoned in the Luxemburg by the Robespierre party in the Convention. The fall of Robespierre took place a few days before Mr.
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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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