Thomas Paine; The Apostle of Liberty an Address Delivered in Chicago, January 29, 1916. Including the Testimony of Five Hundred Witnesses Review

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Thomas Paine; The Apostle of Liberty an Address Delivered in Chicago, January 29, 1916. Including the Testimony of Five Hundred Witnesses Review
500 People say good things about Paine in one book
Within the book "Thomas Paine, The Apostle of Liberty, AN ADDRESS DELIVERED IN CHICAGO, JANUARY 29, 1916" by John E. Remsburg, published in 1917, is "the Testimony of Five Hundred Witnesses". Sure enough, it has all the testimonial quotations we are familiar with, but you may be surprised about ones by men of the cloth and some who had said some despicable things about Paine. And Remsburg's address (oration) is lively. Catch the gratitude he (an atheist) gives to Christians. - It is real respectful humanitarianism. And to categorize the testimonies, Remsburg has separated them into seven groups.
1. "Common Sense" and the American Revolution
2. "The "Rights of Man" and the French Revolution
3. "Age of Reason" and Recantation Calumny
4. Paine's Place in Literature
5. Reforms and Inventions
6. Refutation of Charges of Immorality
7. Testimonials and Tributes
Below I have selected a few quotes by not so well known witnesses. These from the five hundred witnesses that Remsburg choose selectively as he says; "---those who by intimate acquaintance, or careful study of his (Paine's) life, are qualified to give a just estimate of his character and works, ---historians, biographers, encyclopedists, statesmen, divines, and others; --"
"Neither did Livingston, nor Washington, nor any of the prominent leaders in the cause of the Colonists at that time (before Common Sense was published) look(ed) to anything but a redress of grievances. None were looking to a final separation and Independence." ...Hon. Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883)
"Dr. David Ramsay (1749-1815), a prominent leader in the Continental Congress and a popular historian of the Revolution, describing the effects of `Common Sense,' says: `Though the measure [Separation] a few months before was not only foreign to their wishes, but the object of their abhorrence, the current suddenly become so strong in its favor that it bore down all before it.' "
MANCHESTER CONSTITUTIONAL SOCIETY (March 13, 1792): "A work (i.e. "Rights of Man") of the highest importance to every nation under heaven, but particularly to this, as containing excellent and practical plans for an immediate and considerable reduction of the public expenditure; for the prevention of wars; for the extension of our manufactures and commerce; for the education of the young; for the comfortable support of the aged; for the better maintenance of the poor."
MCCLINTOCK AND STRONG'S BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL CYCLOPEDIA [10 vols, 1867 - 1881; Supplement, 2 vols, 1885 - 1887] "The religion which Paine [in his `Age of Reason'] proposed to substitute for Christianity was the belief in one God as revealed by science; in immortality as the continuance of conscience existence; in the natural equality of man; and in the obligation of justice and mercy to one's neighbor."
"Nearly seventy years ago George M. Dallas, then Vice President of the United States, and an admirer of Jefferson, contented that Paine wrote the Declaration." ---John E. Remsburg's, "Thomas Paine, The Apostle of Liberty" Published in 1916. "Whoever may have written the Declaration, Paine was its author." --- William Cobbett (1762 - 1835)
"It is a significant fact that a paragraph in favor of the abolition of slavery in America, which is surmised to have been inserted through Paine's influence, in the Declaration of Independence was struck out. . . . Had Paine's humane suggestion been adopted the United States would have been saved the agony and bloody sweat of the Civil War." --- Hector Macpherson, Scotland.
"I have discovered that Paine not only wrote those words, `the Religion of Humanity,' . . . but he was the real author by this discovery of all laws of social science, which is called sociology, now the queen of the sciences. . . If Paine was the real leader in that discovery he stands by the side of Copernicus, Newton, Darwin, Comte, Spencer and Ward, and the beneficent results and glory of this discovery, and its discoverer, are beyond the words of any mind at present to describe." --- Prof. T. B. Wakeman, 2nd President of "Thomas Paine National Historical society
John E. Remsburg (1848 - 1919). For forty years, in lectures, books and pamphlets, Remsburg pleaded for justice for Thomas Paine.
This book was recently digitized by Goggle and can be downloaded. It also may have been recently reprinted and available from Amazon.com or other book distributors. It is worthy of a reprint. But wouldn't it be great if we had 500 people from 1916 to the present date to add their commendations: Gandhi, Ronald Reagan, and men of the cloth for instance?
Review by; Jack Makens
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