CONTENTS
THE CRISIS I. (THESE ARE THE TIMES THAT TRY MEN'S SOULS)
THE CRISIS III. (IN THE PROGRESS OF POLITICS)
THE CRISIS IV. (THOSE WHO EXPECT TO REAP THE BLESSINGS OF FREEDOM)
THE CRISIS. V. TO GEN. SIR WILLIAM HOWE.
THE CRISIS VI. (TO THE EARL OF CARLISLE AND GENERAL CLINTON)
THE CRISIS VII. TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.
THE CRISIS VIII. ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.
THE CRISIS IX. (HAD AMERICA PURSUED HER ADVANTAGES)
THE CRISIS X. ON THE KING OF ENGLAND'S SPEECH.
THE CRISIS. XI. ON THE PRESENT STATE OF NEWS.
THE CRISIS. XII. TO THE EARL OF SHELBURNE.
THE CRISIS. XIII. THOUGHTS ON THE PEACE, AND PROBABLE ADVANTAGES
THOMAS PAINE, in his Will, speaks of this work as The American Crisis, remembering perhaps that a number of political pamphlets had appeared in London, 1775-1776, under general title of "The Crisis." By the blunder of an early English publisher of Paine's writings, one essay in the London "Crisis" was attributed to Paine, and the error has continued to cause confusion. This publisher was D. I. Eaton, who printed as the first number of Paine's "Crisis" an essay taken from the London publication. But his prefatory note says: "Since the printing of this book, the publisher is informed that No. 1, or first Crisis in this publication, is not one of the thirteen which Paine wrote, but a letter previous to them." Unfortunately this correction is sufficiently equivocal to leave on some minds the notion that Paine did write the letter in question, albeit not as a number of his "Crisis "; especially as Eaton's editor unwarrantably appended the signature "C. S.," suggesting "Common Sense." There are, however, no such letters in the London essay, which is signed "Casca." It