THE HERALD; A GAZETTE FOR THE COUNTRY, New York, Aug. 17, 1796  Page 3 has over half a column taken up with a critical report on Thomas Paine and his works. A few bits include: "Tom Paine treats every subject, government, religion, finance, with equal profoundness and knowledge...with absolute shallowness and ignorance. In his Common Sense (the real merit of which work was that it boldly applied the match to a train of combustibles already laid) he attempts to prove that the Sovereign People..." with more on this. Then: "But what has Tom done lately?..." with more critical commentary on Paine, signed: "No-Painite".
Four pages, very nice condition.