de Bonneville and two negroes, who loyally walked twenty-two miles to New Rochelle to see the last of the man who had always defended and pleaded for the rights of their pitifully misunderstood and ill-treated race.
To the end he was active for public service.

His actual last act was to pen a letter to the Federal faction, conveying a warning as to the then unsettled situation in American and French commerce.

Just before he had made his will.
It is in itself a composition worth copying and preserving.

Paine could not even execute a legal document without putting into it something of the beauty of spirit and distinction of phrase for which he was remarkable.

He had not much to leave, since he had given all to his country and his country had forgotten him in making up the balance; but what he had went to Mme.