New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-13
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TYPE DIVISIONS.

The life of Paine is distinctly marked into fOur
parts the frs. his residence in England, Qnakers
son and a corset-maker from his birth IN 1907 10
1878. This comprised thirty-eight years. III "hich
time he had been privatecrsman before the mast
an excise officer and a shopkceper, and twice mar
RED Here Franklin found him IN want nut ag-
! rressiys and pnhlic-sprited a partisan by hot
| hra,n and exasperated by removal from office.
The next portion of his life the American rev.
olutonarv p,rod ehieAy passed in Philadelphia, rs
| an editor and pamphleteer. which was unquesucn-
ably a brilliant record, the superior service in 1t
! being the preparation Of the common, umoronS
mind for full andccrnal separation from the parent
State of England. Benjamin Rush. descendant oil
| one Of CroLwes masters Of horse, suggested thiS
service for in all thing. there Is m inherited anu
| progressive connection The beheadcr OF the hlhS
left stock To sever the British Empire a. Dy an 'Ne'
| Paine | NAV add also came from the eastern '"un-
| ties of England. whence Cromwell ana ID" IuI'l'"
| ancestors of the people of Lexington came. Ia.ne
served a while IN the patriot army kept respectable
! company was Clerk of the Pennsylvania LrsIsia-
ture and Executive Secretary of Congress lie also
edited magazines, accompanied the army as a sort
! of Illuminating correspondent, and assisted the
sollicry to absorb the idea Of a rcpuhhrah
government. and these ideas, TRANSMITTED "l''
into the language OF orr French al.i's'
sent their soldicry and officers back to France win
lasting prcudiccs against the monarchy. As VT.
Paine had been an obscure person III England ana q"
| scarcely polite breeding. his prompt and nnVer>h
recognition by the Youngest and most popular ma
ton in the world aWoke that literary ee"t'Sn
which turks even in gcntle-brcd aspirants' which
accounted for the errors of John Dickinson and for
MIR Jeferson's sens tvencSs, carried Philip Frencau
into intempcrance. and caused the personal
unpnrmlarity of Fcnnimorc Cooper. lie indngcd
the controversial spirit too far. trcl with ms last
Office the Clerk Of the Foreign Affairs Committee
and having humbled the King of England expired
70 dignity here in the midst Of the miserable cor
rcspondcnce with Silas Drane. Yet Thomas fa'nr
ranks As the great precursor of the intense school o
journalists of which William Goblet, James
Chatham and the elder Bennett were instances t.
venging upon an are the individual Sights all
career is subject 10. He threw away his fam" ~ ing
to get even with a not ininrous world.
LOST N FRANCE.
The third period Of Mr. Painc's life was his long
invoyincn in the affairs Of the French Revolution
At the close of our War Of Independence his services
10 procure uuion Of the States and a National
spirit compare well with JAWS Hamilton ard Mad
iSon's. Washington regarded him Is ms Badcan. OF
the literary general Of the war; and proposed 10 Com
grrss TO make Mr.. Paine lli~toriorraphcr 10 the
United States with life salary No greater en-
comium none more direct couid hc bestowed than
this, and if outwciets volums If trivia disp1fasr-
mcnt Of the indc:atiglbr author. who VAS kind
# Tourg.o or provincial E'r,Srll Of that time
Congress refused the suggestion with contempt. and
thus probably presented religion and order "ih ono
of their worst autaronists lie sailed 10 France 90
1907. an inventor like Fulton CARRYING patent
bridge. but seriously Inclined 20 start an English
revolution. whrrcupon they PM him IN Jail on a
prrtcxt of debt Gong to France he wrote the
Rights Of Man. in rcply TO Burk". and
il had 100000 circulation. OF it, talent
do not speak bat his lait"r-day friends
regard it a. hi, prniph intellectual title 10
fame The French forthwith elected him to the
National Assembly while th" English convicted hn
OF reasonable libel and oltlawcd him. he voted
AGAINST the execution of Louis NNl., was hlnus. u
thrown into jail. and while lying there eleven
months formed the hah;' and finally thr passion 81
drinking brandy. Roth himself and the auia"lc and
sensible Fulton wcrcat this period iricndsoi ouf Nn
lister. who employed Fulton painting aud preserved
Paine's manuscripts from destruction. Believing that
President Washington had not cNcr,ed himself Nuf-
Gccntly to release PANE the latter yirnl"utly at
tackled him. thereby putting Pane himself. on'si lc
of the family Pantheon of Amen For eighteen
months Minister Monroe supported Paine; uually
Jefferson brought him home 10 Baltimore on vessel
of war to AVOID capture by the English. His rc-
manning seven years have been already related.
TOO NCcm MADE or.
His career in France amidst the Intoxicating
scenes of the Rc,oluiinns chr0y responsible for h,
change from political and republican To a moral
and dcistcal controvcr,ialI,t Hal the nomination
of Washington to create him the public historian
been carried out. h. might have lived the tranquil
life of a Ramsey or a Guilot. There had been a
period when his friends were learned gentlemen like
Rush. Rittenhouse. George Clinton and Franklin
~. If
TO the good as well ~ the evil parts Of Paine, work
accounts 10 some extent for the equally eXtraya-
CANT assumptions OF his wisdom and iniilence. In
an are without any impersonaliSm IN the press be
stood revealed a. the hero OF the whole argument
Franklin, his superior ~ every mental. healthy
trait was in France not attending to his paper and
the state Of the country was such that the Ancri-
can cause had one fully capable. cnteWr,ing
journal The large cities Ike Newport, New
York. Charleston and Philadelphia were occupied
by the enemy. and the army aud Congress. driven
back To the foothills abont the highlands, or at
Morristown. Tappan and Valley Forge, had no
effective reading matter but Painrs pamphlets
well-organzed press would have obyiatcd the ncccs
sity for Mr Pane'- IMPORTANCE, and saved him from
his own destroying sef-con-cIonsncss. The moment
the Revolution was over he found no field for him
self having worked without the restraints OF some
wcll-balanced system Of stimulation and correction.
In this city, where he so generally known and
where he died. there is street nor public place
named for him. while the Tory editor of the princi-
pal paper of New-York during the War Of Indcpen
dence is remembered in Riyington-st and Rl'ingtOn
place and died in this city in 1902 with more COM
posure and satisfaction than Mr.. Paine.
KEEP CLEAN.
The average home education and cleanliness Of
the American Liberal is preventative force here,
and aul( Ter ho I'm ~
of men is coarse and rcpulsiye. Mr. lngers0l never
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