BEING AN ANSWER TO MR. BURKE'S ATTACK ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. BY THOMAS PAINE. SECRETARY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO CONGRESS IN THE AMERICAN WAR, PART I. NEW YORK: PETER ECKLER, PUBLISHER, 35 FULTON STREET. 1892. ΤΟ GEORGE WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I SIR, PRESENT you a small treatise in defence of those principles of freedom which your exemplary virtue hath so eminently contributed to establish. That the Rights of Man may become as universal as your benevolence can wish, and that you may enjoy the happiness of seeing the New World regenerate the Old, is the prayer of SIR, Your much obliged, and Obedient humble servant, THOMAS PAINE. |