The animus of the article, which the above statement is intended to contradict, appears plainly in the article itself. While the audacity of its aspersions forbids the hope that the eulogist himself will acknowledge his error, it is proper that others, who might else be misled by it, should understand that the real motive to this perversion of the facts of history must have been iiatred of Christianity, and especially of its ministers, the clergy of all denominations.""

The subsequent career of this unfortunate man is well known. On the Stli of June, 1809, Thomas Paine breathed his last, aged seventy-two years and five months. Shortly after his decease his body was brought up from New York, in a hearse used for carrying the dead to Potter's Field, a white man drove the vehicle, accompanied by a negro to dig the grave. The body was interred on the farm near the site of the present monument. The following lines are said to have been uttered impromptu by an old colored man named Jack Hull over the remains of the notorious Thomas Paine, author of " The Rights of Man " and "Common Sense," at the open grave :

" Poor Tom Paine ! here he lies, Nobody laughs and nobody cries, Where he's gone and how he fares, Nobody knows and nobody cares."

In 1 81 9 the remains of Paine were disinterred by William Cobbett,

a New York Observer.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

and conveyed to England. Among the household goods and chattels of the late William Cobbett, was found a box of bones.