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Washington did not rescue Paine from French imprisonment
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| Dec 28, 2017
| William Hogeland
Posted on 04/16/2019 11:59:39 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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Washingtons reputation grew more glowing with time while Paine remained an outcast in the republic his collaboration with Washington had helped bring about. Paines later years were marked by poverty, alcoholism and neglect: Only six locals attended his funeral in New Rochelle in 1809. One by one most of his old friends and acquaintances had deserted him, Robert G. Ingersoll, a popular orator of the era, subsequently proclaimed. Even those who loved their enemies hated him, their friendthe friend of the whole worldwith all their hearts.
To: CondoleezzaProtege
This part is incorrect.
Paine would not return to the United States until nearly a decade later, after Jefferson was elected president and the Republican Party was in ascendancy.
The Republican Party was formed in the 1850s...no?
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posted on
04/16/2019 12:14:43 PM PDT
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
American politics became very complex as a result of the French Revolution. Factions aligned themselves a pro-Revolution or Anglophile as the politics suited them.
Just one example, Google the Citizen Genet Affair.
Poor ol' Tom didn't foresee the dark and violent turn the Revolution would take or the landmines it created in American politics.
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Watched a short British documentary series called "The Bloody Past of a Tiny Town." It's about the history of the town of Lewes, England.
I didn't know until I watched the program that Thomas Paine had lived for 6 years in the English town of Lewes, and it is said Lewes is where he formed his political views.There's a Thomas Paine Society UK, the house he lived in, in Lewes is a historical site, and there's also a statue of him in Lewes.
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posted on
04/16/2019 12:18:44 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
To: reed13k
Right...The Republicans replaced the Whigs, IIRC.
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posted on
04/16/2019 12:20:46 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
To: mass55th
I didn't know until I watched the program that Thomas Paine had lived for 6 years in the English town of Lewes, and it is said Lewes is where he formed his political views.There's a Thomas Paine Society UK, the house he lived in, in Lewes is a historical site, and there's also a statue of him in Lewes.from article:
Washington and Paine were unlikely comrades from the outset. In 1776, Washington was a Virginia planter with deep roots in America, august in manner if not yet experienced in military achievement. Paine was an English urbanite, a refugee from failure as tobacco shop owner and excise officer who had arrived in Philadelphia in 1775 and found a last-ditch vocation as writer and activist. Washington was reserved; Paine talked constantly. Washington was fastidious about clothes and cleanliness; Paine was not noted for hygiene. But during the War for Independence they became close allies and fast friends.
To: colorado tanker
Jefferson was all on board with the French Revolution, and people were trying to warn him it wasn’t all it was cut out to be and that he was making a mistake to support it.
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posted on
04/16/2019 12:22:03 PM PDT
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rlmorel
(Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
Eh. I appreciate what Paine did with “Common Sense”, and it is true he may have “saved the revolution”, but he didn’t put Washington on his “high horse”.
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04/16/2019 12:24:30 PM PDT
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rlmorel
(Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
To: reed13k
I think they meant the whigs. Jefferson was a Democrat.
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posted on
04/16/2019 12:26:37 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(If we get Medicare for all, will we have to show IDs for service? Why?)
To: reed13k
"The Republican Party was formed in the 1850s...no?"
The party of Jefferson and Madison was called the Democrat Republican party.
To: reed13k
He is referring to the Democrat-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, formed in 1792 and peaked in power from 1801 to 1825 (roughly Jefferson's and Madison's administrations).
-PJ
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posted on
04/16/2019 12:29:15 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: reed13k; Vermont Lt; rlmorel
I'm thinking that when the author uses "Republican" in this context and this era, he's talking about the "Democratic Republicans."
Which would correspond to neither of the major parties in Lincoln's time nor in ours.
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posted on
04/16/2019 12:32:54 PM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Department of Redundancy Department.)
To: reed13k
Yes, you are correct...the Republican Party came much later as a result of the abolitionist movement within the Whigs.
There was a Democratic-Republican Party early on, though:
” The Democratic-Republican Party was the political party organized by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1791-93. It stood in opposition to the Federalist Party and controlled the Presidency and Congress, and most states, from 1801 to 1824, during the First Party System.” — www.definitions.net/definition/democratic-republican%20party
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04/16/2019 12:33:39 PM PDT
by
piasa
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To: zot; The Shrew
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04/16/2019 12:40:15 PM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
To: reed13k
Jefferson’s party which we know today as the Democrat-Republican was often just called the Republican party. (Modern historians call it Democrat-Republican I doubt if they used the hyphenated moniker!) After Jackson it was pretty much the Democrat party, the use of the word Republican as a party label didn’t occur until a coalition of Free Soilers, Northern Whigs, & others picked up the name and formed the Republicans in Ripon Wisconsin roughly 1856.
Party names\labels come and go but its always the Federalist vs non-Federalist argument. How much central government is enough, how much is too much!
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04/16/2019 12:40:59 PM PDT
by
Reily
To: reed13k
Jeffersons Democratic-Republicans later had their name shortened to Democratic, the forerunners of todays Democrats. The Republican name remained unused until the Republican Party was created as an abolitionist party in 1854.
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posted on
04/16/2019 12:41:12 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
I read a letter of Paine's from 1807 that is on display at the Thomas Paine House in New Rochelle, NY. In this letter, Paine pleads with Vice-President George Clinton to testify on his behalf to a local election board that refused to allow Paine to vote, claiming that he was not a citizen.
Paine wrote:
"As it is a new generation that has risen up since the declaration of independence, they know nothing of what political state of the country was at the time the pamphlet Common Sense appeared; and besides this there are but few of the old standards left, and none that I know of in this city."
-PJ
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posted on
04/16/2019 12:42:36 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: CondoleezzaProtege
British authorities indicted Paine for seditious libel, a hanging offense...
Can you imagine the number of public hangings today for that same offense?
Great post by the way. I love reading the histories of these characters and what eventually became of them. It's very sobering.
The Democratic-Republicans only lasted about 30 yrs but according to Britannica they did refer to themselves as “republicans” for short.
But they were not the same as the 1857 Republicans of the GOP, which were founded in the upper Midwest.
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posted on
04/16/2019 12:44:43 PM PDT
by
piasa
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I admit, that always confuses me.
I tend to think of Jefferson Republican-Democrats onward as Democrats...at some point, they stopped being the Republican-Democrats and became the Democrats.
Was that in 1830 or 1850, or some other time? Do you know?
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posted on
04/16/2019 12:45:41 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
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