1st Edition

Thomas Paine and America, 1776-1809 Vol 2

By Kenneth W Burchell Copyright 2010

    From his migration to America in 1774 to his death in New York City in 1809, Thomas Paine's ideology was at the centre of American political and social debate. This six-volume facsimile edition brings together rare texts from books, periodicals and newspaper contributions to unearth the contemporary American response to Thomas Paine.

    The Silas Deane Controversy -- [Silas Deane], Echo fr om the Temple of Wisdom (1779) -- T. Gracchus, in Pennsylvania Packet, 5 January 1779 -- Rights of Man -- Hermes [Caesar Augustus Rodney], Th e Oracle of Liberty, and Mode of Establishing a Free Government (1791) -- John Quincy Adams, An Answer to Pain’s Rights of Man (1793) -- James Phillip de Puglia, A Short Extract concerning Th e Rights of Man (1793) -- Juvenis, ‘Sonnet to Th omas Paine’, Greenleaf ’s New York Journal, -- February 1794 -- Th e Cordwainer Letters, Norwich Packet (1794) -- No. 1, 18 September -- No. 2, 25 September -- No. 3, 25 September -- No. 4, 2 October -- No. 5, 9 October -- No. 6, 30 October -- No.7, 13 September -- ‘Th e Triumph of Liberty: or, Th e Rights of Man’, Greenleaf ’s New York Journal, 8 July 1795 -- Henry Mackenzie, An Answer to Paine’s Rights of Man (1796) -- ‘Miscellanies: France and America’, Th omas’s Massachusetts Spy, 15 August 1798 -- ‘Communication’, Aurora General Advertiser, 18 June 1798 -- Th e Age of Reason -- Th e Folly of Reason. Being our Perfect and Unerring Guide, to the Knowledge of True Religion (1794) -- Samuel Stilwell, A Guide to Reason or an Examination of Th omas Paine’s Age of Reason (1794) -- James Muir, An Examination of the Principles contained in the Age of Reason. In Ten Discourses (1795) -- Editorial Notes.