Life by Moncure D. Conway--Early Advocacy of Reforms against Dueling
and Cruelty to Animals--The First to write "The United States of
America"--Washington's Sentiment against Separation from Great
Britain--Paine's Thoughts in the Declaration of Independence--Author of
the first Proclamation of Emancipation in America--Establishment of a
Fund for the Relief of the Army--H's "Farewell Address"--The "Rights of
Man"--Elected to the French Convention--Efforts to save the Life of the
King--His Thoughts on Religion--Arrested--The "Age of Reason" and the
Weapons it has furnished "Advanced Theologians"--Neglect by Gouverneur
Morris and Washington--James Monroe's letter to Paine and to the
Committee of General Safety--The vaunted Religious Liberty of
Colonial Maryland--Orthodox Christianity at the Beginning of the 19th
Century--New Definitions of God--The Funeral of Paine.