Présentation de l'éditeur
No. 1. By referring the matter from argument to arms, a new era for polities is struck a new method of thinking hath arisen. All plans, proposals, c, prior to the 19th of A pril i. e., to the commencement of hostilities are like the almanacs of the last year, which, though proper then, arc superseded and useless now. Common Sense. No. 2. Man has no property in man;, neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. EIGHTS of Man. My text No. 1, is from a modest little tract dating not many months beyond the Declaration of American I ndependence, and which is commonly admitted to have done more than any other writing to produce the public sentiment which gave birth to that remarkable document and the independence it declared. As conclusive evidence of the appropriateness of the title, common sense, it may be mentioned that ten years after its publication the American Congress voted to its author the sum of $3,000 as a gratification from the United States. Pennsylvania gave him five hundred pounds; New York a farm. These gratifications were made prior to the publication of the work which contains our text No. 2, which is perhaps none the less true, though it may be less entitled to be considered the common sense of the country, for that. One can hardly fail to regret that it was not included in the earlier tract. Had it been so, perhaps it would have saved the war of 1861, and the painful labor of converting a truism into common sense in 18G2. It is only because text No. 2has never become the common sense of the United States that the present trouble has come upon us, and that now we neither know what is best to be done in it, nor who should pay for doing it. In precisely the sense intended by Mr.
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