United States. History, Revolution, Public opinion. Ameri- can, Anti-Revolutionary,
Plain truth; ... (Continued, 1.) No, 2 in *4495.10 The question of the authorship of this tract is discussed by Paul Leicester Ford in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, January, | 1889, pp. 421-424 [5335.1.12], where he shows that Charles Inglis, D.D., to whom it has been attributed on the strength of a statement in a letter that “in February last I wrote an answer to a pamphlet entitled “Common sense,” was not the author, but that this statement referred to another | work “The true interest of America impartially stated.” Mr. Ford ascribes | the authorship of Plain truth on presumptive evidence to the Rev. William | Smith, D.D., of Philadelphia. | This attack on Thomas Paine’s Common sense, produced, according to D. | | |
“ee” card.] This card was printed at the Boston Public Library, December 17, 1920.
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