The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-23

All. hurains w.th enthusiasm were read
Ia The men gathered around tbs camp
fires. The effect was electrical: neN hopes
were kindled and the cause IT American
freedom no longer langtusliCl.
So high WIZ the estina. # Gatiela
good accomplished by IL Crisis that
congress rewarded Paine by the appoint
ment Of secretary To II commission ot
foreign affairs. THE ness 80 = tlty INV
ever made so sihe-al as his n.'itaal
secrets. III an excited controversy With
Sias Deanc, that he was relieved Of his
position, but upon MS le'ntn TO this
country he was appointed clerk Of The AS
sembly of Penn iVania and later eop-
sress, 10 prove the dnnter aiion Of
grateful people voted I'm @AD ard New
ofk bestowed upon hin. he oaniiseated
estate of New Rochelle. II consisted II
$40 aeres Of excellent land aud large
stone house
Deprived Of the intense mental stimu-
ns which the war had furnished. he
turned his attention To mechanics and in
vented an iron bridge similar to the IN d.
ern suspension bridge Knowing that
America in her exhausted financial oon-
dition WAS no place for the furiherance
of his business schemes. Ia sailed for
France. arriving there he underworld 10
interest the Academy Of Science In his
plan for the construction of bridges.
From there he went In England and
later iii answer To Edmund Rurkess Re
nactions on the French Revolution
wrote "trhe Rights Of Man a work 50
revolutionary in character that many per-
SONS We're involved IN heavy penalties for
circulating IL. The second part Of the
work WAS declared by the court of the
queens bench "a false. seandalous. ma
licious and seditious libel and the
author. To save himself made huf-
ried flight tn France. where h. was re-
eeiyed Il hero. Here h. voted with the
! Girandists At The trial Of Louis XVI. and
| i'm thFuNn futn the Lux
| embonrg prison. where he sp mt II months
| ia anticipation of the guiIlutfne.
| 1t was at this time that he nuhlisht d
his Age of Reason which scanddlized
| the Christian world estranged his DE- Arrest
| friends and threw a black shadow over
| his hitherto glorious career
/ The Paine Of patriotic fame no longer
| existed except in the memory Of CRATE
| full Americans. Released from Iuxem-
| hourg through the efforts of President
| Monroe and befriended Ivy many ameri-
| can leaders because Of the good lie hHd
/ done with England and France his we'll
| deserved enemies, there WAS but one ref
| uge left for him and his thoughts turned
to America and his old homo II New Ro-
| ehelie. Lacking the restraint of family
! affection, his first wife dead and tire sec-
| ond estranged. H. had plunged into all
| sorts of debauehery When the man-of.
| war Maryland steamed into Baltimore IN
| September 1872. bearing the man for
| whom jefferson had obtained Il special
. passport, IT was discovered 10 the DISCUS,
/ of all his friends that he WAS not with
! out companions With him We're Madame
! Bonneville. wife If a Paris bookseller
and her two children.
The closing years IF his life were speet
at New Rochelle. where he occasionally
preached unobiectionable sermons IT. the
groves about his home and wrote 4 fen
pamphlets on economies and applied sci
enee.