Thomas Paine And Samuel Adams Each Contributed To “selling The Revolution” To A

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Term Paper Title	Thomas Paine And Samuel Adams Each Contributed To “selling The Revolution” To A
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     Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams each contributed to “selling the revolution”  to a

complacent society through their pamphlets, and writing such as Common Sense, and The

American Crisis, The Rights of Man, and The Age of Reason, all of which concentrated on

the emotions of the society during the Revolutionary Era.

     Englishman Thomas Paine is said to be the most persuasive writer of the

revolution. After 37 years of drifting from various jobs such as corset maker to a school

teacher he decided to come to the United States to make a new start.  He moved to

Philadelphia where he worked as a journalist. The controversy between England and the

colonies  prompted him to write to write Common Sense.  Through this pamphlet he

caused the people to support breaking away from the British because of the way he

denounced King George the 3rd (1689-1702) as a “royal brute”, a murderer and a thief,

and stated that we should not  be a continent that is attached to an island.

     In 1776 while Paine was on the road with the continental army he wrote a series of

pamphlets called the American Crisis where he persuaded people not to give up their fight.

As best stated in the American Crisis,

                                                              ...God Almighty will not give up

                           a people to  military destruction, or leave them

                           unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and

                           so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war,

                                  by every decent method which wisdom could

                            invent.

     Here Paine is persuading the people to continue the fight because it is willed by the

power of God and that man in himself should fight for what is right. He convinces the

fearful society of what they should do. By these writing being circulated, more and more

people became supportive of the facts . Paine continues,

“...I dwell not upon the vapors of imagination: I bring reason to your ears, and, in language

as plain as A,B,C, hold up truth to your eyes.”

     Paine...

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