(1877.)
Letter to the New York Observer--An Offer to Pay
One Thousand Dollars in Gold for Proof that Thomas
Paine or Voltaire Died in Terror because of any
Religious Opinions Either had Expressed--
Proposition to Create a Tribunal to Hear the
Evidence--The Ob-server, after having Called upon
Col. Ingersoll to Deposit the Money, and
Characterized his Talk as "Infidel 'Buncombe,'"
Denies its Own Words, but attempts to Prove them--
Its Memory Refreshed by Col. Ingersoll and the
Slander Refuted--Proof that Paine did Not Recant -
-Testimony of Thomas Nixon, Daniel Pelton, Mr.
Jarvis, B. F. Has-kin, Dr. Manley, Amasa
Woodsworth, Gilbert Vale, Philip Graves, M. D.,
Willet Hicks, A. C. Hankinson, John Hogeboom, W.
J. Hilton, Tames Cheetham, Revs. Milledollar and
Cunningham, Mrs. Hedden, Andrew A. Dean, William
Carver,--The Statements of Mary Roscoe and Mary
Hindsdale Examined--William Cobbett's Account of a
Call upon Mary Hinsdale--Did Thomas Paine live the
Life of a Drunken Beast, and did he Die a Drunken,
Cowardly, and Beastly Death?--Grant Thorbum's
Charges Examined--Statement of the Rev. J. D.
Wickham, D.D., shown to be Utterly False--False
Witness of the Rev. Charles Hawley, D.D.--W. H.
Ladd, James Cheetham, and Mary Hinsdale--Paine's
Note to Cheetham--Mr-Staple, Mr. Purdy, Col. John
Fellows, James Wilburn, Walter Morton, Clio
Rickman, Judge Herttell, H. Margary, Elihu Palmer,
Mr.