Mudcat Café message #1618434

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Thread #86872 Message #1618434
Posted By: Abby Sale
02-Dec-05 - 08:50 AM
Thread Name: happy? – Dec 2 (Tom Paine outlawed)
Subject: happy? – Dec 2 (Tom Paine outlawed)

In 1792 Tom Paine (1737-1809) published in England The Rights of Man, in defence of the French Revolution.
He was outlawed in absentia on 12/2/1792 and punished in effigy throughout England.

         Tom Paine is a Rebel, his Followers worse,
          The best of them all, would purloin a Man's Purse.
          For what can you think to their leveling Plan,
          They'd take the Purse first, and then hang up the Man.
  
                  GOD save GEORGE our KING,
                  Tom Paine, let him swing;
                  Let us for ever sing--down with Tom Paine.
  
                          "Down with Tom Paine," (a broadside) in 
                          A Ballad History of England, Roy Palmer