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« IVU w IWftlUVV W !!■! fti thought i‘ He replied, 1 trust you ere i one who has bought the truth, end would not sell it to please such e vaga-bond at 1 atn. She then told hitn, that for days after perusing it, she couhLjiot think a good thought but some,or hit reasonings would twine round and repel it; and seeing the other children of the family eager to take it up, shecould ' find no peace until she committed it to the (lames. He then made an ejtclaina-1 tbn denoting the horror of his mind, saying it had been better for my soul at the present day, if all the world had, like you, destroyed them. But the * world was glad to have it «oadding, f ever Satan had an instrument upon the earth to lead into the ways of darkness, I have been one 1 have passed f many sleepless nights in endeavoring to prevent the right way And when f she took her leave of him, he requested her to ask Mr. Hicks to come and sea him, saying I love to have him by me, for when he sits by my side, although : he tays but little, it seems as though the devil himself was silenced, and I feel as though 1 could do nothing but pour out my eriesand tears before God*, At another time, when some of Willet flicks* family were there, one of Paine’e [ former friends and adherents came and , opened the door, but on seeing them ha called out roughly, “Paine 1 have heard five lies about you one is that you are dead—another, that you have recanted end turned quaker—as you haya 1 lived like a msn, 1 hope you will die j like one ” Paine said, you see how f ; have lived ; this has been my heaven;1 these my friends, can do nothing now 1 but afflict me. He wished Willet 1 Hicks to endeavour to obtain permission for his interment in Friend*s burying ground. Willet let him know he hardly thought it probable it would be granted, stating his reasons; and on applying, found Friend’s setiments ae . he expected, of which be informed Paine. He was affected with the result, but thought it just; afterwards left directions to be interred on his own farm at New Rochelle, giving the field, by will, for the place of interment for poorstrangers.”(A true copy, taken from Thotntf Wickaribam’onauuecript)f'iVagt Jteeqjegf
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Gettysburg Adams Centinel
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Oct 20, 1819
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