[5] Letter of March 9, 1790. Id. p. 636. [↑]
[6] Cp. J. T. Morse’s Thomas Jefferson, pp. 339–40. [↑]
[7] MS. cited by Dr. Conway, Life of Paine, ii, 310–11. [↑]
[8] Memoirs of Jefferson, 1829, iv, 300–301. The date is 1817. These and other passages exhibiting Jefferson’s deism are cited in Rayner’s Sketches of the Life, etc., of Jefferson, 1832, pp. 513–17. [↑]
[9] Memoirs of Jefferson, iv, 331. [↑]
[10] Dr. Conway, Life of Paine, ii, 310. [↑]
[11] Extract from Jefferson’s Journal under date February 1, 1800, in the Memoirs, iv, 512. Gouverneur Morris, whom Jefferson further cites as to Washington’s unbelief, is not a very good witness; but the main fact cited is significant. [↑]
[12] Compare the testimony given by the Rev. Dr. Wilson, of Albany, in 1831, as cited by R. D. Owen in his Discussion on the Authenticity of the Bible with O. Bacheler (London, ed. 1840, p. 231), with the replies on the other side (pp. 233–34). Washington’s death-bed attitude was that of a deist. See all the available data for his supposed orthodoxy in Sparks’s Life of Washington, 1852, app. iv. [↑]
[13] So far as is known, Paine was the first writer to use the expression “the religion of Humanity.” See Conway’s Life of Paine, ii, 206. To Paine’s influence, too, appears to be due the founding of the first American Anti-Slavery Society. Id. i, 51–52, 60, 80, etc. [↑]