Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.
Paine issues a stirring call to future generations to remember the unity and resolve shown by Americans during a desperate winter of the Revolutionary War.
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