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Thomas Paine's the "American Crisis" essay number 10...

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THE INDEPENDENT LEDGER AND THE AMERICAN ADVERTISER, Boston, March 11 and 25, 1782  This is a two issue set. Almost the entire front page of the March 11 issue is taken up with the printing of: "Common Sense, on the King of England's Speech", concluded in the March 25 issue. This ia actually Thomas Paine's essay #10 of his famous "American Crisis" series, a collection of 13 essays written by Paine during the American Revolutionary War.
In 1776 Paine wrote Common Sense, an extremely popular and successful pamphlet arguing for Independence from England. The essays collected here constitute Paine's ongoing support for an independent and self-governing America through the many severe crises of the Revolutionary War.
General Washington found the first essay so inspiring that he ordered that it be read to the troops at Valley Forge.
In this Crisis #10 he notes that George III says that America is prolonging the war. Paine quotes a line from the speech wherein the King calls the people of England "free people." Paine says that George the Third is a hypocrite. The King tells the people in his speech that the forces in Virginia were lost, and he wants to restore happiness to the American colonists.
Paine reminds the American colonists that the surrender of the British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, is not the end of the war. George the Third intends to continue to fight, and America must continue to be prepared to fight.
Paine wrote this Crisis #10 in Philadelphia on March 5, 1782. 
Page 2 of the March 11 issue has a lengthy document from the: "Office of Finance" signed in type: Robert Morris. This is followed by a: "PROCLAMATION" concerning deserters from the war, signed in type: George Washington.
This is one of the more patriotic mastheads of the war, featuring an engraving captioned: "All Hands With One Inflamed Enlightened Heart", the hands numbering 13.
Each issue four pages. March 11 is a bit irregular at the margins, two, small older tape mends inside, a tiny hole in the back leaf obviously not affecting the Paine content, some back page rubbing with foing to a back page upper quadrant. The March 25 issue has a few minor tears at margins, some scattered foxing, good condition.
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