Thomas Paine

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of the eight-thousand people that were in front of
the building.

Paine soon went to a ball to represent the Pennsylvania Magazine in
which he represented. He had a lot of answers to questions people kept
asking him. Paine was finally fired when he argued with Aitkin because he
wanted to put an article in the paper. It was called Reflections on Titles.


The Second Continental Congress met, and Paine was introduced to
someone he didn't recognize named George Washington. Paine spent two days
in his room trying to write down what he thought of all this. One night
soon after, Paine was drunk with Sam Adams and Michael Clowsky, the
expatriate pole and he mentioned that he thinks they need a new world, or
independence. At first the Pole laughed at him, but Adams liked the idea.

Aitkin still tried to get Paine back because many people liked his
articles and his poems he'd have in the paper. Paine still stood his
ground and said no, Aitkin also didn't want Paine to ...

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