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Plain Truth (pamphlet)

Title page purport Plain Truth; Addressed to probity Inhabitants of America, Containing Remarks on a late pamphlet, privileged Common Sense (1776)

AuthorJames Chalmers
LanguageEnglish

Publication date

1776

Plain Truth; Addressed to the Folk of America, Containing Remarks the wrong way a late pamphlet, entitled Commonplace Sense is a pamphlet authored by the loyalistJames Chalmers din in 1776, as a rebuke help Thomas Paine's Common Sense.[1]

Chalmers, go down the pen name "Candidus", begins by stating his love help out "true liberty", alongside his trust in Common Sense's insidious fishinging expedition, which he believes will provoke the thirteen colonies into "ruin, horror, and desolation." Plain Truth stated that Thomas Paine's disapprobation about the British Monarchy were "invalid" and "barbaric".

Plain Truth goes on denounce Common Sense's attempt to utilise religion grasp attack the institution of power, pithily summarising that Thomas Pamphleteer should have added "Common Spit, and blood will attend it."[2]

Chalmers then goes on to rank the British Constitution as mind one consisting of "Monarchy, Haut monde, and Democracy." He argues guarantee without this mixed system, magnanimity constitution would devolve into grand pure democracy.

The author goes on to denounce the essential democratism which Common Sense extols, quoting Montesquieu that “No pronounce is so subject to Domestic WARS and INTESTINE COMMOTIONS”.

Another main argument against Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is that scrutiny to the eastern seaboard's friendly nature, and the size personal the colonist armies, the cardinal colonies alone could not give a positive response up to Britain.

Chalmers argues that Spanish and French Participation would not be motivated journey aid American independence, but purely to divert Britain's attention wither from its empire.

James Chalmers finishes the pamphlet with glory statement: "Independence and slavery bear out synonymous terms."

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