Volume 5 — Introductory material
Reading edition
(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. XV Lovett, all these Testified that Paine was a Temperate Man—Washington's Letter to Paine— Thomas Jefferson's—Adams and Washing-ton on "Common Sense"—-James Monroe's Tribute— Quotations from Paine—Paine's Estate and His Will—The Observer's Second Attack (p. 492): Statements of Elkana Watson, William Carver, Rev. E. F. Hatfield, D.D., James Cheetham, Dr. J. W. Francis, Dr. Manley, Bishop Fenwick—Ingersoll's Second Reply (p. 516): Testimony Garbled by the Editor of the Observer—Mary Roscoeand Mary Hins- dale the Same Person—Her Reputation for Veracity- -Letter from Rev. A. W. Cornell—Grant Thorburn Exposed by James Parton—The Observer's Admission that Paine did not Recant—Affidavit of William B. Barnes.