POLITICAL WRITINGS

OF

THOMAS PAINE,

SECRETARY TO THE COMMITTEE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN THE

AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE.

A NEW EDITION WITH ADDITIONS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. IL

J. P. MENDUM,
INVESTIGATOR OFFICE,

BOSTON.

1870.

Rights of Man, Part 1. Being an answer to Mr. Burke's attack on

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the French Revolution

Rights of Man, Part II. Combining principles and practice

Letter to the authors of the Republican .

to the Abbe Sieyes

Address to the Addressers

Letters to Lord Onslow

Dissertation on First Principles of Government

Speech delivered in the French national convention

Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas, letter the first

The decline and fall of the English system of Finance

Letter to the people of France

Reasons for preserving the life of Louis Capet, as delivered to the

national convention

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Agrarian Justice, opposed to Agrarian Law, and to Agrarian Mo-

nopoly . . .

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part of Rights of Man

Liberty of the press.

Communication on Cullen

Letter to the People of France, and the French armies, on the event

of the 18th Fructidor-(Sep. 4, 1797) and its consequences

Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas, letter the second

to the sheriff of the county of Sussex

to Sir Archibald Macdonald, Attorney General, letter the first

to the Attorney General, on the prosecution against the second

Letter on the propriety of bringing Louis XVI. to trial

Speech in the national convention on the question, "shall or shall

not a respite of the sentence of Louis XVI. take place"

On Louisiana and emissaries

A challenge to the federalists to declare their principles

The emissary Cullen, otherwise Carpenter

Notifications respecting the impostor Cullen, alias M'Cullen, alias

Carpenter, the associate of the Federalists of New York

Extract of a letter to Dr. Mitchell, senator for the state of New York 494

To the honourable, the speaker of the house of Representatives

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PROSPECTS ON THE RUBICON :

OR AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CAUSES AND
CONSEQUENCES OF THE POLITICS TO BE
AGITATED AT THE NEXT MEETING
OF PARLIAMENT.