, 1879-05-17

cent Of words like inildel and ,uIscrcant. Tint
was gon!i arahlc soil to him which to sonic
around him vns burning lava,-for instance, to
ones se s%ps o@ IT, sSa Ss a wg
md struck him on the head, calling him ali
fncenjtary and traitor to his country. Tho
old n,an Of 60 only resented tha BY saw
M, ,srcs young mans E'fs,-it hclng punishable
him with muncy to lcavo the country.
THIS was not the onlv instance Of Pa!ne's
ne:sunal kindness to tnc1nl,crs OF tho hfrh
n @ so o"ss To%a. fSas Psin. 9is as says
4s!cu TO Nch. o'llara, who wits his etlow.pris-
over. These inc'dcnts, however, made little
Impression In his favor; md II was. pcrhaps,
snR III 1R sass s' Il f1Es E1 "s 4em r aa fensa os a s
day, when II WINS announced by tho London
journals TINT Paine had been Elillotincd. The
fact that Faine must hnye aufferel under sen.
tcnco Of rcvolutonssts for mercy TO fallen
ycnge.
Coming, AZ the runor OF his death did, along
with the terrible "Age OF Reason," It was
easily shown e %I bs Divine judRmont' But,
rELiC1TATE HIMSELF ON PaovlDnNT1AL IN
Tie facts are sufficiently striking, Mother
soldering under Washington, agitatfnG teyou.
ttons, nor liontzEue a. Republican Courts had
the 9aaksr o nd wn
who rose up In tho French Convention nnd testi-
fed against capstal punishment, begging them
to XIII the King, but spare tho man. Ha
ssf xe4eaf 5 1S' % Seest sGa ea,la ay es To
fro'n the constant Inspect Of public prosperity
tint the true systc,n Of GoYnrntncnt consists
nut In Kings, hut in fair, equal, and honorable
rrsp,rosentatiot." The angry Radieals Of tic
prehcnd this Language fn the supposed arch
tirebrnnd III America, md 1t looks as II tllcJ
suspected that the English hal bought him; At
my rate, aftcr he had been thrown into prison,
tho Americans Ia Paris went In body TO do.
mand his rclease, and nero refused on the
ground TINT Paine MAS m English citizen.
IL was also stated to the American deputatton
that the American Minister, Norris lad taken
true. pninc could understand that,-there
wero private reasons for the hostility Of Morris;
but neither he nor any American in Europe
doubted that, when the tidings had reached the
and that Washington, now President, would IN. n.
etantly demand hts friends relcaae. In that,
too. he Was disappointed: Washington gave no
sign, but loft Pains to langufsh ii prison for
sentence coming from Washington. Though
Monroe came as Minister, superaetlinE Morris,
md cxertca himsolt to the Utmost to secure
palno'a release, II vas soon discovered BY Robes
abls 10 palnci and the sentence ot doath
WIS passed. On the night when chalk
mark was put on the door OF each prisoner
who was To- be executed Ia the morning,
closed ths mark Vas on The insido. BY this nc
cdent bis life was preserved. A lew days after,
RobcspIsrro fell. But, though that fnll occurred
on tho 9th Of July, It was not until the 4th Of
the continued s,lence Of Washington causing
the belief that tho Imprisonment WAS sgrceRble
TO him.
This was a terrible humiliation. Washington
was now hero In the cycs Of all Europe, md
nss pub,!!shea praises q Raas wers ", known to
Ills FIRST work on tho "lllghis Of Man., md to
lafayette his second; aud II was to lin that
Lafayette lad intrustcd the key Of the Dastlle
t. be presented to WashIpgsonl After all this
Washington delivers hlsu up silently to deathl
Whatever may haze been the cause, no ono can
won1or at the bitterness OF tho letter which
Paine, wrote to Washington after T.; mud II
would seem to require great deal OF partlaltty
prisoner au pied do Ia iHtre, while putting indul
gcnt constructions on the deliberate and never
exgla!nod action Of Washington.
On bis WY to prison palne had managed to
American writars Of that time, Jnel Barlow, and
thttIist to hin the manuscript OF work on
which he Ind for some time been engaged,
..t,t:; EHH "AoE OF RHAsox.n
Even In childhood, Puiuo tells US, no had re-
helleH aGainst aog,a features OF the popular
thcology; but the long struggle with poverty,
tho American Revolution, political controvcr-
sics, prevented MIS- giving much attention to the
subjects treated tn,thc "AEe Of Ksasou y until
later life; and there arc evidences ip bis ear
miiiar dogmas Of orthodoxy, he lad nut cspe-
chilly considered such subjects as supernatural
ism and the general; value Of the Bsbtc until
attcr tie American Revolution bad ceased.
There was, indeed, Ia most OF the political lead
ars III that Revolution skcptfcaI sptris, rs was
only natural when II Is remembered that George