Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-04-05
From the y Y Observer
1 ETTER FROM GHAHT TuoKuyRy
wRiTTLS 0s ms S3D BfRrnrAY.
Winsicd. (,onn- Eel Is 1aih

. WinSicd, Conn.,. FeJ is, 1855.
Mr.. Printrt:--This G5y enter On my
eghty-thrd year. Except that my hearing
and seeing oie not SO acute, am not sfnsi.
BILE Of any material decay for the last 6ty
years. During that pc I'd. have been on-
ly one day confined 10 the house by sickness!
Goodness and mercy have followed me oil
the days Of my lie; owe the givcr Of all
good large debt OF gratitude.
Aud As here is but step belHeen nc and
death owe it TO ger eFstions yet to c,me,
to tell what ] saw and hearu Of Thomas
Paine. Perhaps there lives no: man On
earth, who traced him from h cradle TO bis
grave, except myself. Carver and | were
fclow-laborsrs ia the same shop. Paine
and Carver were born in the same town ia
Eng and; Paine and ! 20 lrded wi.n Carver
oTei heard Carver, bis wife, aud Paine, as
we four sat 10y the fire on y n!er njshf, re-
htsrse the items ul MS hfe, | think he was
the wort member Of the body pol.tc ! ever
met ia all my journey through lie. He mar
ried a respectable lady, who died eleven
months thrr,a ter, in cons guenCe of rutal
treatment He then marrleI a daUuhte; Of
the Col, ctpr 0 the Port of Lewis; alter
three years she Obtained a divorce for ike
treatment.
In 1873, while he held an flee N the Gus.
tom House, (given him BY his father.in-law1
b was d t-cted in liking brlbes from tie
smuggicrs ana il-d 10 America He was
made Secretary to the private Comm tee Of
Congress, and to k All oath of oti,e to keep
their Ep H-,H. tt's he.
glng the project of secret mission % the
Court oi Franco ~ Sias Dean. He wa.
dismissed with disgrace. (Sse the Journal
Of Congress in l774 or Thi. t-egchery
was the cause OF much trouble in Congress,
and in the Court Of Louis XVI.
We next find him in Paris, helping Rob
espiene 10 his lab7rs of love - estlbl sh the
freedom of the Press, and he right Of speech
by means of the gniioline. He querreled
with Robbie, and was cha'kcd for the guio-
tine. God, wiling to make the wrath OF
Paine TO praise Him, sent an angel who de-
livered him out of prison.-[Fo particulars
of this mracle,se the Life OF Tn rJurn, lOlst |
plge)
In 1901, when Kin! Thomas the Fist as
cended the throne ofhis kingdom, he in -tant- |
ly despatched a national frgate TO convey 20 |
our shores the venerated Thomas Paine He
arrived early in the year 1902, spoke with
him at the City Hotel, Bowery, a few hours
after his arrival. He found letters urging !
him on to Washington. Chen a four day.
journey) He started nxt morning. AT
Ge orgetown messenger was sent forward |
to announce his approach; least was got |
ready. and all those Of like ,h;nking we're IT,
vted. Paine entered late, his -l'r- u1,,gs-
ed, lis beard unshorn, and rec ing as a lrur-
ken man. A look OF Consideration shonr
forth from every face; mjrth "ess-j; ne By |
one they went out, leaving Paine a.ore on !
h 5 chair fast asleep. y x dly he re eveL |
lie ters and instructions to retIrn to Nrw
York.
Wen Aarrn Burr return, from Europe,
whittier he ha fl d after his duel wish II IN.
ilon, he Kept his office in y ssau street, re,r
my seed store. From him Ireceived the sc-
count as abave stated.
Paine, on his return, vas unable - find
lodgings. Carver toJk him in Tor Cd &C
luainiance sake. lie died at Grecnw.ch, cf
d-tlr.um trcmens, in 1909.
70 return from this old inf lei to mvseli,
| ar now ne,r the end Of my journey. |, is
u coiHci lence worth Eoing rh.t on the l3
Of A yri, 1894, first sail from Scot nd,
and on the 18Th Of April, 1854, first enter
cd M dwelling in this place, being sixty
years complete. The yard OF my dwelling is .
Sc epara'ed from the Prrsbvterion church and .
its place OF skulls by tence. Ii 1t SO wills |
heaven, here my bones will rest It'll time
shall be no more"
The partner whom God has given ne, is
light to my path-makng smooth my track /
10 the BANKS Of Jordan. She hath "known
the Scriptures from her you,h up" A thank
fui heart completes my happiness. was
born lSth February, 1913. You &c.
GRANT THORIURN. .