To see women and children wandering in the severity of winter, with the broken remains of a well furnished house, and seeking shelter in every crib and hut, were matters that you had no conception of.
Paine paints a stark picture of the devastating impact of war on civilians, particularly women and children, forced to flee their homes in harsh conditions.
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Whether robbery shall be banished from courts, and wretchedness from countries?
It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.
It was Government dethroning Government; and the old one, by attempting to make a new one, made a chasm.
They had a cause at stake, on which depended their freedom or their slavery.