The Political Writings of Thomas Paine Secretary to the Committee of Foreign a
The Political Writings of Thomas Paine Secretary to the Committee of Foreign a
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At Ticon- deroga they ran away. In every skirmish at Kingsbridge and the White Plains they were obliged to retreat, and the instant that our arms were turned upon them in the Jerseys, they turned likewise, and those that turned not were taken. The necessity of always fitting our internal police to the circumstances of the times we live in, is something so strikingly obvious that no sufficient objection can be made against it. The safety of all societies depends upon it ; and where this point is... not attended to, the consequences will either be a general languor or a tumult. The encour- agement and protection of the good subjects of any state, and the suppression and punishment of bad ones, are the principal objects for which all authority is instituted, and 124 THE CRISIS. the line in which it ought to operate. We have in. This city a strange variety of men and characters, and the circum- stances of the times require that they should be publicly known ; it is not the number of tories that hurt us, so much as the not finding out who they are; men must now take one side or the other, and abide by the consequences : the Quakers, trusting to their short-sighted sagacity, have, most unluckily for them, made their declaration in their last Testimony, and we ought now to take them at their word.
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