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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ingersoll, Robert Green 1833- (search)
f gratitude never to be effaced as long as they shall deserve the title of a just and generous people. On reaching America Paine found that the sense of gratitude had been effaced. He found that the Federalists hated him with all their hearts be of the Bible—because he had said that a being of infinite goodness and purity did not establish slavery and polygamy. Paine had insisted that men had the right to think for themselves. This so enraged the average American citizen that he longed but all kinds of Christians had the right, and it was their duty, to brand, imprison and kill infidels of every kind. Paine had been guilty of thinking for himself and giving his conclusions to the world without having asked the consent of a pri should think for himself. While some believed in the freedom of religion, he believed in the religion of freedom. If Paine had been a hypocrite, if he had concealed his opinions, if he had defended slavery with quotations from the sacred script