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FYI To The Historically-Challenged Censors Out There

Thomas Paine is sometimes known as “The Father of the American Revolution” for his writing for complete independence from royal rule – in his pamphlet Common Sense, Paine’s pro-independence monograph, written in late 1775 and published anonymously on January 10, 1776, spread quickly among literate colonists. Within three months, 120,000 copies are alleged to have been distributed throughout the colonies,[6] which themselves totaled only two million free inhabitants, making it the best-selling work in 18th-century America. Its total sales in both America and Europe reached 500,000 copies.[7] It convinced many colonists, including George Washington and John Adams, to seek redress in political independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, and argued strongly against any compromise short of independence. The work was greatly influenced (including in its name – Paine had originally proposed the title Plain Truth) by the equally controversial pro-independence writer Benjamin Rush and was instrumental in bringing about the Declaration of Independence.
Loyalists attacked Common Sense with vigor. One such early attack, entitled Plain Truth, was written in 1776 by prominent loyalist James Chalmers. An expatriate of Scotland, Chalmers attacked Paine as a “political quack.” Chalmers would serve as commander of the First Battalion of Maryland Loyalists in the American Revolution.

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