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as much satisfaction as any of my countrymen, the pleasing issue of our severe contest.

The case of Captain Asgill has indeed been spun out to a great length-but, with you, I hope that its termination will not be unfavourable to this country.

I am, sir, with great esteem and regard,

Your most obedient servant,

G. WASHINGTON.

Thomas Paine, Esq.

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PREFACE.

I HERE present the public with a new performance. Some parts of it are more particularly adapted to the state of Pennsylvania, on the present state of its affairs: but there are others which are on a larger scale. The time bestowed on this work has not been long, the whole of it being written and printed duṛing the short recess of the assembly.

As to parties, merely considered as such, I am attached to no particular one. There are such things as right and wrong in the world, and so far as these are parties against each other, the sig nature of Common Sense, is properly employed.

Philadelphia, Feb. 18, 1786

THOMAS PAINE.

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