Opinion Of John Adams.

Quincy. 22d June, 1919
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QmHcy 22d June, 1919.


DEAR SIR,-May enclose you one oEthe
greatest curiosIti,s S, and one Of me deepest
mysteries that eve- occurred 10 me: Ii is III the
ESSEX Register Of June the 18th. 1919. IL
is entitled from tAe Raleigh Register dec
laretion OF Independence How 1t is poss
ibe that this paper should have been concea.
led from me to this day. Had it been com
municIted 10 me in the time of il, | know, if
YOU do not know, that 1t would have been
printed in every whig newspaper on the
continent You know th It if | had possessed
Il. 1 would have made the Hall ofCongress
echo und re echo with II fifteen months be-
fore your Declaration of Independence
What a poor, ignorant. malicious. short
sighted. crapulous mass is Tom Paine's
common sense in compaIis ison with this pa
per Had | known il | would have com
mented upon j, from the day you entered
Congress I'LL the 4th OF July, l776


The genuine sense of America al that
movement was never so we'll expressed be-
fore nor since. Richard Caswell. William
Hooper. and Joseph Hewes. the then Rep
Teseniatives of North Carolina in Congress,
YOU know as we'll as /. and you know that
the unanlmity ofthe states finally depended
on the votes Of Joseph Hewes. and vas Fl
naly determined by him and yet history
IS to nscri5e the American Revolution TO
Thomas Paine. Sal reT6um Sapienti.


am dear Sir your invari bic friend.


JOHN ADAMS.