Show tho the next tiny day was in tile thu list ills ilia door A however opened outward 13 and swung buck back against r thi the wall the inside was therefore them Coro out when tho the door was open A cureless careless warder chalked the inside or of tile tho door by low inis talce when tile prisoners L 0 were vere taken out later ills door was vas closed and there was no it AI on oil the outside janies 1 lonroe lon rov amerl A can ni hilster obtained he G jalnos relea o in november of 1701 1791 reentered tho convention NEW and remained until tho w alent of the directory la kry lu in october of ir 1705 paine returned to tile tho united states stan in tile tho fall of 1802 he lived for a tittle fit at lierde bordoni it town rind then wont went to now new chello 0 01 la d wa q 11 ave NO Ni DICKINSON ICKINSON SHERMAN amas PAINE paink pat pa riot tilot philosopher and anthor athor will be tile the eon coil ral figure of memorial Alei norial adny at now new rochelle jin N Y the thomas balne paine national illston i an teal association la Is to erect t it memorial lal building and ground will ivill be br oben then with ftp al ceremonies the site pur Is a part of 0 wb rixto to paine by the state in 1784 in front of the ay athe alie tom paine bonu eighty alve years ago by new anew york editor au authentic life idill uffe e published in america art atad ted by a bronze bust it t the paine celebration by Is the spot where ed in 1809 across the tie e building Is a lake cost converted into a park th ory te nd d hoor floor of the thomas aa at al building will be a lod h will contain a great K memorabilia including D editions of his several lit despondence esponde nce with wash na F jenerou Jene tou riou and other sp times I 1 of tory ory Is very much more han an fact ile he was born ni betford Bet atford tord england his quaker aaker in early life lie he M r e ker er and a teacher then ty petty tty government official to assed sed for trilling trifling arregu rived in philadelphia in ly f 74 ile he became editor hat vanta magazine which ids lon on in january of 1775 ahlet illet common sense f january 10 1770 1776 in nd ind made him for the id low test est known and most in ln r in america although ity es eg had been in progress led ed clash of april 19 agton agton and concord the aa distill resistance to by vt than it a war for inde 3 pito obvious ties paines arguments glee ce wen unanswerable doubtless turned the sf six months later con althe the declaration of oc in sd d as a private in the q iny y in 1770 in decem 11 r just before washing I 1 delaware balne wrote re on a drumhead the 3 of the crisis no 1 I e times that try mens hington had that fight the army no wonder ald d ills his I ragged tagged conti sed outgeneraled and at trenton and I 1 e a was made secretary ce e of foreign affairs of 1 congro s in ija 1781 he sens ons went to france for or eulth wiell money rind and sup juls is time ilme paine was liv own n N J neglected by te e the efforts escorts of washers rs in ills his behalf into tate of now new york gave eted loyalist estate of sew ew rochelle pennsyl jm m pounds sterling bally voted him abent ent tor for services but i anco CO in 1700 17 of burkes n the french revola I 1 yih rth a reply from paine athe th rights of man 0 az f 7 ar ced a 41 X fra xa hy by THOMAS ft nothing can settle our affairs so expeditiously as an open and 1 determined declaration for or inde pen dence common sense janu t ary 10 1778 1776 these are ara the times that try mens souls the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the very erv tee ice of his hi country but he that stands it now deserves the love s and thanks of man arid and woman tyranny like hell Is not easily e conquered yet we have this con s sol atlon with us ua that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph the crisis no 1 I to see it in our power to make men happy to teach mankind 4 th the a art 0 of f being so to exhibit on th the tt theater rl eater of the universe a c character h hitherto unknown c and to have as aa it were a new creation entrusted to our hands are honors that command reflection and can neither be too highly estimated nor too gratefully received the crisis no 1783 but in whatever manner the separate parts of oc a constitution may be arranged there Is in one general principle that distinguishes freedom from slavery 11 which Is that all hereditary government over a people Is to them 34 C a species ot of slavery and representative 4 senta tive g government overn ment Is freedom rights nighta of man alan 1792 w the word 0 of f god Is the creation c W which we behold and it Is in this word which no human human invention 3 can counterfeit or alter L that god speak eth universally to 1 k K man age of reason 1794 X X X X X it was dedicated to washington and was translated into french it made such an impression Impress lou that the british government undertook to suppress it and to punish the author in december of 1792 1702 pains paine was tried for high treason in the court of the kings Bel bouch lell lie he was ably defended by erskine Ersk lne but was convicted and outlawed paine in the meantime had gone to france there three departments chose him as their delegate to represent them in the convention paine was one of the nine members who composed the first committee to draw firak up it a constitution for france he was an active and prominent member of the convention lie he tried hard to save louis XVI from the guillotine and thereby incurred the enmity of rabes alerre and other terrorist leaders paine was arrested december 2 27 1703 1793 by order of the committee of public safety and was confined in the luxemburg ile he escaped the guillotine by an accident as he himself called it prisoners to tho the number of were taken out jonii one night and be headed flat nes last years were not hap liappa p y hla age e of reason had been pub in part paris in 1794 5 1 it 11 was this work with its violent assault on the bible and on orthodox christianity that caused paine to be branded as aa an atlie the americans of the early years vears of the nineteenth century were positive that a man who had written such things and hild had taken part in the horrors of the french revolution must necessarily be a very bad man in every way so they would have none of him ile he died in new york city june 8 1809 paines will pro provided Tided that he should be burled buried on ills his new rochelle estate with a headstone bearing his name and age and inscribed author of common sense ille he was so burled buried and tor for ten years his remains lay undisturbed thereafter their experiences 06 were as strange as those of thomas paine tn in life in 1810 1819 william cobbett a noted english radical was in america in the dead of night he dug up paines coffin and took it to england in explanation he sald said america has failed to honor the great man from whose brain sprang the idea of american in independence depend 43 nee paine was born in thetford nor folk shire and all england will rejoice to honor this great thinker and philosopher cobbett had plans for an Impress impressive Ivo funeral and for a magnificent tomb but some soine way or other england lid did not grow enthusiastic over the plans to honor tho the author of the pamphlet that had so much to do with the loss of her american col colonies onles the upshot was that cobbett placed the coffin in the attic ef cf his home tit at normandy farm fann in surrey cobbett died in 1835 and soon afterward the paine coffin disappeared in tile the meantime the thomas paine national historical association had find been formed in america and the late moncure D conway its first president and the author of the most exhaustive blo biography graphy of aulne was conducting a peral persistent stent and comprehensive search for paines remains ile ho obtained in london in adoo a small portion of paine s brain william Will fain al van der now president of the association took up the search and secured some locks of paines hair it now seems certain that the rest of the remains were nvere secretly burled buried in england in the seventies thomas paine genius agitators agitator philosopher oso os opher patriot and atheist evidently knew himself and his own work that Is why when PaIne came to die he ordered on his headstone AUTHOR OF COMMON SENSE SEN |