Show T mm M ido 1 4 in is erected arf HEW t IF ao vol A A 01 ra to aki ti a A vy by 13 Y JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN fic PAINI patriot philosopher and nu au thor mill be the cen L aral figure of sit mortal day at now rochelle llo chelle N Y the thomas balne national illston trot association li Is to erect a memorial build ing enil and ground will bo be broken the then 0 with alth appropriate prop ceremonies tho the lie site pur chased by the association Is a part of the land grant to I 1 nine by the state of new I 1 lork ork in 1784 in front of tho the building stands the tom aulne bonu ment erected eighty he note years ago by gilbert vale lole a new lork editor nu au thor of the earliest carl lent 11 life ito of thomas balne published in america it Is surmounted by a bronzo bronze bust placed there at the paine of 1800 1600 near by Is 11 the spot where here paine was burled buried in 1809 across the street from the building Is a lake which will be concerted conier comer ted into a park in rallies paine a memory on the ground floor of the thomas batna memorial building will be a museum which ill contain a great array of patine memorabilia including first drill and rare editions of his ls sederal works and correspondence with wash ington adams jefferson and other leader leaders of time times paines life etory story Is very much more like romance than fact lie ile was born in 1787 in thetford Eng england landl ills IM father was a quaker in early life ho he ws a stay maker and a teacher then he became become a petty government official and was dismissed for trifling arregu larit les he arrived in philadelphia in tn november of 1771 1774 1 lie ile became editor of the Pennsyl pennsylvania vanla magazine Mag which began publication in january of 1775 paines pamphlet common sense wa was published january 10 1770 in philadelphia and made him for the moment the best beat known and most in fluent lal lat writer in america although actual hostilities bad had been in progress since the armed clash of april 10 1775 at lexington and concord the revolution was till rial resistance stance to tyranny rather than a war for independence pen dence despite obvious exaggerations and crudities paines arguments for independence were unanswerable answerable Im 1 ull ills pamphlet doubtless turned the cale scale anyway six months later congress adopted tio declaration of in dependence paine enlisted ai as a private in the continental army in 1770 in decem ber of that ye arJust before washing ton crossed the Delaware wrote by the campfire campf lre on a drumhead the immortal worda words of tho that crisis no I 1 which begin these the are r the th times that try men s schuls general washington had bad that fight log ing cry read to the irmy army no wonder washington and his hi nagged rugged conti nent centala als surp rIsO outgeneraled and walloped the britch at trenton and princeton I 1 in JA 1777 paine 1 was wa made secretary of the committee of foreign affairs of the continental congress in 1781 he and nd john laurens went to aid id returning return ln with money mony and f about this time balne 1 wai was ili ini ing at Borden bordentown town N J neglected by congress con grese despite the effort efforts of wash jungton and others in his behalf in 1784 the kate state of kew new york rave gave paine 1 a confiscated loyalist Loy allet st estate of acres at new pennsyl vania 1 voted him BW pound pounds sterling 11 colgren Con eventually voted him not as a a payment for services but aa as a gratuity the appearance in 1700 of oc on the french m tion called forth a reply from balue palue 1 with the title the night of man 74 zy IT I 1 A dy THOMAS 1 paita i nothing can dettlo our affair affairs 1 so 0 o expeditiously as an open and 1 determined declaration for or inde pendent pend enc common sense janu ary ry 10 1776 these the are the time times that try men a souls th the summer uni raer sold loor and t th he sun lu hin patriot w will lit in this brials brink shrink from the perv ice lc of his hi country but he h that tande it now deserves the th lov toy na and thanks of 0 man and woman tyranny like hell li in not easily conquered yet wt we hav have this con ol atlon with ui us that the harder tr be conflict the more glorious fl orlou tb the triumph the crisis no 1 I 1776 to see e it in our power to make men happy to teach mankind the art of being no oto noto to exhibit on th this theater of tb the universe a character hitherto unknown and t to 0 hav h a v as a it were a new now c creation rea t aon n t to our hand hands are honor honors that command minand co reflect tion and can neither be b too highly estimated ti mated nor too gratefully received the crisis no lit out but in whatever manner the be separate le parti parts of 0 a constitution may b be arran arro ired nored there ti Is one general principle pl that distinguishes ulice freedom from lavery slavery which Is I 1 that all hereditary borov morn eminent ment over a people if to to them a Pee losos of slavery 1 and depre r pre tentative enta genta tive I 1 is fro freedom to dons night rights of man 1792 1 the word of god to I 1 the ere eres alon which we behold anil and it li to ta in this word which no human in bention can counterfeit or alter after that god universally to 1 too manage man age of heakon it was dedicated to washington and was translated into french it fiade guch such an impression that the british government undertook to suppress it and to punish the author la lit deem ber of ia 1702 da paine WM wils tried for high treason in irk the court bf the kings bench he lie was mas ably defended def ended by erskine Ersk lne but was conic convicted ted and out cawed paine in the meantime bad cone gone to franc france there three department departments chose hira him ai as their delegate to represent them in the contention paine was one of the nine members who corn posed the first co committee ommIttee to draw up tip a constitution for france he lit was an active and prominent member of the co contention mention he ile tried hard to cae louis I 1 from the guillotine and thereby incurred the enmity of alobe alerre and nd other terrorist if leaders paine was arrested december 27 07 IM 1703 by order of the committee of public safety and was confined in the luxemburg lie escaped the guillotine by an accident as he called it prisoners to he the number of bere ere taken out one and beheaded tip tt dext lly tiny I 1 milo 1 wad in tho ho lot illson tw door holever opened ond and aing ilung bark agoan t I 1 the wall rho binl A tap ali erf corp out OUI t atie 1 dif il r 4 an rot 01 en A co rim 1 An roler linell lilt II 11 in ain of the door d r I 1 y glnn hon the ali I 1 alos aare taken tilt nt later him dor il uni ilis ie I e I 1 and 1 tharp watt wn no coall mark oil n the flip ui joints anro ln ro A inert en ann it obi it l I 1 line it ri ro lam in N I 1 tr pr of i 1701 ili I 1 nine r rr 4 nt ri 1 I it do e et c avi nil nit n fin I 1 until tho of tip 1 PI botory rieff iry in of f ining return I 1 to t flip I 1 nil nit 41 in he fall 11 of W lavt I 1 fir a tint nt it rian town and then to new ito h lie paines last years were not happy ills age ace of reason had been published in perlis in 14 9 5 4 it was a this work mork aith ath its violent assault on the th bible and on orthodox christianity tint that caused paine to be branded as til fill atheist the americana americans of the early years of the nineteenth century were positive that a man who had written such thines things and had taken part in the horrors of the french revolution must necessarily be a very bad man in ev cry ery way so they would have none of him lie died in new york city june 8 1800 Pai valnea nei will provided that he should he lie buried on his new Ilo Ito chelle estate with a headstone bearing his name and age and inscribed author of corn com mon sense lie ile wag was so buried and for or ten years his remains lay undisturbed thereafter their experiences were as strange as those of thomas paine in life in 1810 1819 lellam cobbett a noted english radical was in america in the dead of night he dug up paine a coffin and took it to england in ex plan atlon be he said america hai has failed fatted to honor th the great ecat ron man from whose who brilin sprang the idea of american Amerl cin independence paine wa woo born in thetford Thet tord norfolk shere and nd all england will rejoice to honor this great thinker and phi lossis pher I 1 j cobbett had plane plans for in impressive funeral end and for a magnificent tomb hut some way or other englade did not grow enthusiastic over the plans to honor the author of the pamphlet that had hall so 0 o much to do with the loss of her american colonies the upshot nas that cobbett placed the coffin in the attic of his home at normandy farm jn surrey cobbett died la irk 1833 and oon soon afterward the paino paine coffin disappeared in the meantime the thomas paint national historical association had been formed in america and the late moncure SIon cure 1 D conway its first pre president ident and the author of the mot exhaustive biography of paine was wa conducting a es persistent and comprehensive search for fur paine to remains he lie obtained in london in 1000 1900 a small portion ot of paines brain bral tit william am XI van der ebie ei Ie now president of the ass ast ocla tion took cp up the search and secured anif pomp lucks locks of kalne hair it now reins seeing certain that the ret rest at 0 the re ere secretly burled buried in foul en land inn in HIP lite seventies thomas value genius agitator ahli patriot antl aI atheist beSt evidently knew himself hirae elf and his own work that Is why when paine came to die dle he ordered on tin his blis beads headstone trint althon authon OP OF COMMON COUMON BF sr 8 |