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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ingersoll, Robert Green 1833- (search)
d by altars and thrones for many centuries; that he was for the people against nobles and kings; and that he put his life in pawn for the good of others. In the winter of 1774 Thomas Paine came to America. After a time he was employed as one of the writers on The Pennsylvania magazine. Let us see what he did, calculated to excite the hatred of his fellow-men. The first article he ever wrote in America, and the first ever published by him anywhere, appeared in that magazine on March 8, 1775. It was an attack on American slavery—a plea for the rights of the negro. In that article will be found substantially all the arguments that can be urged against that most infamous of all institutions. Every line is full of humanity, pity, tenderness, and love of justice. Five days after this article appeared the American Anti-Slavery Society was formed. Certainly this should not excite our hatred. To-day the civilized world agrees with the essay written by Thomas Paine in 1775.