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Thomas Paine's the "American Crisis" essay number 10...
Thomas Paine's the "American Crisis" essay number 10...
Item # 703278
March 11, 1782
THE INDEPENDENT LEDGER AND THE AMERICAN ADVERTISER, Boston, March 11, 1782 Almost the entire front page is taken up with the printing of: "Common Sense, on the King of England's Speech". 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.
Line wrote this Crisis #10 in Philadelphia on March 5, 1782. Note that this issue does not have the complete text, as it states: "To be continued in a future paper."
Page 2 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.
Four pages, irregular at the margins, some old tape at margins & the spine, reglued at the spine, toning in sections, rubbing to back leaf folds.
Line wrote this Crisis #10 in Philadelphia on March 5, 1782. Note that this issue does not have the complete text, as it states: "To be continued in a future paper."
Page 2 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.
Four pages, irregular at the margins, some old tape at margins & the spine, reglued at the spine, toning in sections, rubbing to back leaf folds.
Category: Revolutionary War
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