Volume II Part 31 (2/2)
(See Gordon's Hist, v iii, p 154) After his return fro letter from Col Laurens:
”Carolina, April 18, 1782--I received the letter wherein you mention my horse and trunk, (the latter of which was left at Providence)
The misery which the forreatly distressed me He ounded in service, and I am much attached to him If he can be of any service to you, I entreat your acceptance of hi you to a country (Carolina) where you will be received with open arms, and all that affection and respect which our citizens are anxious to testify to the author of Coard this part of A that I can command in it to be in common between us”
On the 10th of April, 1783, the definitive treaty of peace was received and published Here insert the letter from Gen Nathaniel Greene:
”Ashley-Rives (Carolina), Nov 18, 1782--Many people wish to get you into this country
”I see you are deterenius and not your fortune
I have always been in hopes that Congress would have ement to you for past services I lected; and that America is indebted to few characters more than to you But as your passion leads to fame, and not to wealth, your s, will be ireat; nevertheless, if you are not conveniently situated, I shall take a pride and pleasure in contributing all in my power to render your situation happy”'
Then letter fro letter froston (Trenton, 4 November, 1784) will show that Thomas Paine was not only honored with the esteem of the most famous persons, but that they were all convinced that he had been useful to the country
At this ti with Colonel Kirk-bride, Bordentohere he reht a house [in], and five acres of ainst, Bordentown, near the Delaware, which overflowed it frequently He sold the land in 1787
Congress gave an order for three thousand dollars, which Thomas Paine received in the same month
Early in 1787 he departed for France He carried with hie of his own invention and construction, which he sub, to the French Academy, by whom it was approved From Paris he went to London on the 3 September 1787; and in the same month he went to Thetford, where he found his father was dead, from the small-pox; and where he settled an allowance on his s a week
This and the preceding letter supplied by the author
Not found Referred to in this work, vol i, p 200
A part of 1788 he passed in Rotherhae was cast and erected, chiefly at the expense of the ingenious Mr
Walker The experiment, however, cost Thomas Paine a considerable sum
When Burke published his _Reflexions on the French Revolution_, Thohts of Man In January, 1792, appeared the Second Part of the Rights of Man The sale of the Rights of Man was prodigious, a in the course of one year to about a hundred thousand copies
In 1792 he was prosecuted for his Rights of Man by the Attorney General, McDonald, and was defended by Mr Erskine, and found guilty of libel
But he was now in France, and could not be brought up for judgment
Each district of France sent electors to the principal seat of the Department, where the Deputies to the National assembly were chosen Two Departments appointed Thomas Paine their Deputy, those of Oise and of Pas de Calais, of which he accepted the latter He received the following letter from the President of the National assembly, Herault de Sechelles:
”To Thomas Paine:
”France calls you, Sir, to its bosom, to perform one of the , by wise legislation, to the happiness of a people, whose destinies interest all who think and are united with the welfare of all who suffer in the world
”It becohts of Many to desire aislators hihts, and who has developed their principles with that Coenius inwardly felt by all s forth froave you the title of Citizen, and had seen with pleasure that its decree was sanctioned by the only legitimate authority, that of the people, who had already claimed you, even before you were nominated
”Co of scenes for an observer and a philosopher,--that of a confiding and generous people who, infa at last to end the struggle between slavery and liberty, between sincerity and perfidy, at length arises in its resolute and gigantic force, gives up to the sword of the law those guilty crowned things who betrayed them, resists the barbarians whom they raised up to destroy the nation Her citizens turned soldiers, her territory into caress the lights scattered through the universe Men of genius, the ive to her people a government the most proper to insure their liberty and happiness