On the recordJanuary 1, 1776
Howe is mercifully inviting you to barbarous destruction, and men must be either rogues or fools that will not see it.
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Thomas Paine
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gutenberg.orgThomas Paine: “Howe is mercifully inviting you to barbarous destruction, and men must be either rogues or fools that will not see it.”
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Paine exposes the enemy's deceptive offers of mercy as a path to ruin, criticizing those who fail to recognize the danger.
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