The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-02-01

denos was declared The dine was now arrived when
part 10 public sffahs Many individuals Of reepecta-
bty volunteered their services In support OF their
oeuntrys freedom, sud amoug the foremost sof them
pendence sort OF uerA ant writer OF which his pen
appendsge almost Is necessary and as
them with Crisis The drst Of these numbershc pub
lished early in December, 1915 The object OF 1t
good the method excellent and the language suited TO
of prvats citizens. cheering Washington defeated
Long Island, had retreated to New York, and been
driven With great loss from forts and Lee
the gallant little army, rwhelmed with rapid sue
session Of mfortunes dwindng away and all SEEM
cd to be over with the cause when scarcely blow had
been struck "These said the Crisis ARE the times
that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the
sunshine patriot will In this crisis surlnk from the SER
vice of his country but he that stands 1t deserves
the love and thanks Of man and woman Tyr-nuy like
hell is not easily conquered yet have this consoa
ton WITH us tnas tns naraes tne .as more go
too lightly" This number was read Ia the camp, TO
every corporals guard, and Ia the army and out Of It,
had more than the intended effect The convention
OF New York reduced by desperation by alarm
to niue members was rallied sudreaoimated hilitiamen
who already tired of the war struggling from the
army returned Hops succeeded to despair cheerful
to gloom and frmness to rresolution 10 the con-
ddence which it inspired, may De attributed much Of
the brilliant little affair which, in the same month"; fol-
lowed ut Trenton. On the l7tn OF April, l777 Mr.
Paine elected by Congress- secretary to tho commit
for foreign affairs Tbs fitch number of his Criss
published at Lancaster in Pennsylv ania, March,
E78 II contained among other things letter address
cd to General Sir William Howe in the latter part Of
which il this paragraph =" There Is something in
mesnness which excites species Of resentment that
subsidies; and something in cruelty which stirs
up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred
Britain has filed up beth these characters till no add
ten be made, and hath reputation left with
to obtain credit for the slightest promise The will of
God hath parted u.s. and the deed is registered for
eternity When she shall be spot, scarcely visible
among nations America shall flourish the favorite of
Heaven and the friend Of man. In February 1881 he
sailed with Colonel Laureus for France where they
gotated loan OF two millions Of vres and obtained
large supplies, forming the loading offs brig and a
ship, with which they returned just before the
capture of CORVALLIS at Yorktown He continued to
publish numbers of the Crisis occasion appeared to
cali them until the close the revolution thirteen
in all In 1882, he published letter to the Abbs Ray
nal The object Of this letter to clesr the mis-
take and to expose the into which the Able had
fallen In his history Of the American revolution This
letter mastery production, the following para
graph which is extract from it, will show. Hs oays
There is something exceedingly curious in the cons
tuition and operation OF prejudice 1t has the singular
ability of accommodating itself to all the possible varie
out thinly scattered among mankind and End only
and there fitness Of reception But PREJUDICE, like the
spider makes every place it's homs 1t has neither taste
choice Of place. and ali that 1t requires is
There Is scarcely situation, except fire and water, in
which the spider will not live So, let the mind be
naked the walls of empty and forsazeu tenement
gloomy 3 dungeon, ornsmsnted with thu richest
abilities Of thinking let it be hot GOLD dark light
lonely or inhabited still prejudice If undisturb bed will
there nothing to live IfIhs prepares her
food by poisoning t to her palate and her use the other
uoo6 tne same AND as several OF our PASSIONS are
strongly characterized by the animal world, pre-
JUDGE may be dsnominated the spider of the mind
In 1885 Congress granted to Thomas Paine $500 the
StaSs Of Pennsyl' AHA granted to him $500, and the
State Of New York granted to him the conscsed estate
of Mr. Frederick Devoe royaiist This estate, stu
ated New Rochelle consisting OF more than acres
oflsnd, in high state OF cultivation with spacious
and elegant stone house besides extensive tbua
valuable aoquision and the readiness with which
IL granted Is proof o. high estimation In
his servicss held by Of the most puent and
powerful States in the Union lis retired to this farm
and tSa Of best men ID the
nation till April 1881, when he set sail from the United
States to France and arrived in Paris after short pas
sage In September after he went to Lon ton and from
THENCE to Thetford, to his mother, who still
living; his father then dead Here he spent some
time relieving the wants Of bis surviving parent and
writing "a nphlet the state of thu nation During
year 7ss hsspent his time 10 building ais bridge The
year 1889 he spent la France 1890 Mr. Burke published
mis- h.ctions upon the Principles the French Rsvo
luton" In November of that year Mr. Paine returned
to Eugeud, and lost time In preparing hts to
duced the first part of the Rights of Man,
in which he had combatted and confutcd the greater
May he again went to France On the l3th July, 1891
he returned 10 London and prepared the second part
the Rights Of Man. He continued in England quar-
reng with the ministry upon the principles contained
in HIS Rights of Man" till about the middle OF Sep
tember 1872 when French deputaton announced to
him In London that the department. of Calais had eec
him AS .ner representative in tho Natonsl Conven
ton. He imm sdiateiy proceeded to Dover, where he
embarked for France and in about three hours Of
his seat as member Of the National Assembly; and
shortly alter, he was appointed member If the
tee for framing the constitution. The question
the trial the XII q was then sgitated for which MIR
Paine voted but after the conviction ne streniuusly
opposed sentence OF death upon the king but being
voted he again made powerful effort have the
cuton postponed Here ain he was defeated; and the
king was behesded the 2ss day of January 1893 The
National Assembly became divided into two parties
Mr.. Paine, from his love of liberty and humanit
was induced to join the weaker party, and thereby
incurred the d,splessure Of Danton, Marat, and
In loGn fprra nd in tkar ha
I'd and Imprisoned where he ntinued eleven months
On the All of November, 1874, he was released AIR
Monroe who was afterwards President of the United
States YVES then minister to France kindly invited Mr.
Paine to his house, where he remained about eea-
teen months Shortly after hi, release from prison ne
was invited by the National Assembly to his
seat in that body, which he did and continued in
France until the LIST of September, 1902, when he en-
bsrked from Havre for America and arrived at Balti
more on the 30th of October. He remained at Wash
nSton awhile, and visited the different departments
and then came to New York and put up at the City
Hotel where ne col tnued for time, receiving visits
from friends, and on occasion public dinner was
given him A. token of respect He returned to his
between hat place and New York, until his death
which took place ON the 9Th day of June 1902 ut which
time he was seventytwo years and five months old
was buried on MS farm at New Rochelle where siuce
beautiful monument has been erected BY his friends
with no other inscription upon 1t than "rhoma, Paine
author OF Common nse thus ended the DAYS of one
OF be most remarkable that ever ved-o of most per
feet moral and true to the of "a
toe needle TO tho pole Neither powers prncipalit
could make him swerve from ths line OF cttud. His
red ctons upon the virtue aud integrity Of Ameri
were glowing and his description Of what America may
In time become, Is most eloquent, and yet melancholy
tie says" thousand years hence (for Indulge
few tnougnts-p perhaps in less)Amsricn ~ be nat
england now is rhe Innocence of her character that
won the hearts OF all nations In her favor may sound
like romance and her nimitable virtue as ii IL had
never bsen The ruins Of that liberty which thoussn
o.d to obtain may just furnish materials tor "A village
tss or extort sigh from rustic snsblity; while the
fashionable of that day, envtlopsd In dissipation shall
deride the principle and deny the fact When con.
template the fall Of empires AID the extinction Of
nations of the ancient world ces but little more 20
excite our regret than the mouerng ruins of pompous
palaces magnificent monuments LOFTY pyramids, and
walls and towers Of the most cesty workmanship; but
wnen the empire OF America shall fall the ject for
coatempative sorrow will be infinitely greater than
decayins besss or crumbling marble can inspire
u VIII not then be said, Hero stood teu-
PIE or vast antiquty-here rose ibel of Invisible
height, or there palace Of sunptuous extrsva.
cameo but here sh painful to relate the noblest work
human wisdom the greatest glory the
ar cause OF reedomr and FELL" Aud thu, II will be
seen rom review Of us life and writings tn he
ooiiecs tnnRer ready writer with heart free from
gue, oue with benevolencs firm in purpose