From the greenest private to the commander-in-chief, most men in the army were American Whigs, fighting for their own rights. Paine was an English radical, fighting for everybody’s rights. Graydon remarked upon the difference. He observed Paine’s friendship with George Washington and his “good reception at headquarters and acquaintance with the Commander-in-chief, whom he seems to have considered from that time, as embarked with him on the general cause of reforming, republicanizing, and democritizing the world, than which nothing was more foreign to the views of the General, or those of the
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