It is was in great distress for want of the means of subsistence proper, therefore, to state, that at his death he possessed a farm in New-Rochelle valued at 10,000 dollars, and thirty shares in the New-York Phoenix Insurance Company, worth about 1500 dollars, which he devised by his will to various persons. "It is somewhat singular," says Mr. Sherwin, "that so great a length of time should have elapsed since the death of Mr. PAINE, without a single author, either in Europe or America, attempting to give an impartial and faithful account of his life. Different reasons may be assigned for the silence of his English admirers, but in the land of freedom, in the land where his principles have flourished and triumphed, in the land which almost owes its form of government to his genius, a person would have thought that some honest biographer would have raised an avenging pen against the calumniators who have endeavored to blacken his name. In a country where literature is a real republic, where the press is neither shackled by despotic laws nor corrupted by treacherous ministers, we are naturally led to suppose that tyranny would scarcly have found a supporter, or superstition an advocate. But the silence which has been observed towards the falsehoods that have been propagated against the character of Mr. Paine, is a proof that letters way be venal without being corrupt." EDITOR. 262 from General Washington to Thomas Paine Dissertations on Government, the affairs of the Bank, and Paper 415 433 439 456 460 To the French inhabitants of Louisiana To the citizens of Pennsylvania on the proposal for calling a con- Of constitations, governments, and charters Remarks on a string of resolutions offered by Mr. Hale, to the New York House of Representatives at Albany. Three letters to Morgan Lewis, on his prosecution of Thomas Far- mer, for one hundred thousand dollars damages 493 501 507 COMMON SENSE: ADDRESSED TO THE INHABITANTS OF AMERICA, SUBJECTS, viz. II. OF MONARCHY AND HEREDITARY SUCCESSION. III. THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF AMERICAN AFFAIRS. IV. OF THE PRESENT ABILITY OF AMERICA; WITH SOME MISCELLANEOUS YO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX. Man knows no master save creating heaven, Thomson. |