Thomas Paine: “Her strength, of late, has lain in her extravagance; but as her finances and credit are now low, her sinews in that line…”

The horrid scene that is now acting by the English government in the East-Indies, is fit only to be told of Goths and Vandals, who, destitute of principle, robbed and tortured the world they were incapable of enjoying.

Discussion and the general will arbitrates the question, and to this, private opinion yields with a good grace, and order is preserved uninterrupted.

The insulted German and the enslaved Spaniard, the Russ and the Pole, are beginning to think.

But where genuine principles of liberty pervade a people, every thing is restored to order; and the soldier civilly treated, returns the civility.