Tom Paine was for le chop, and if Robespierre hadn't be executed, Paine would have been. Paine had opposed the execution of the French King, after he was free from jail he wrote a book attacking George Washington, which greatly reduced his popularity.
Paine believed Washington had conspired with Robespierre to have him executed. His emotions governed his thinking and he made a series of personal attacks on Washington.
"Paine believed Washington had betrayed him and conspired with Robespierre. While staying with Monroe, Paine planned to send Washington a letter of grievance on the president's birthday. Monroe stopped the letter from being sent, and after Paine's criticism of the Jay Treaty, which was supported by Washington, Monroe suggested that Paine live elsewhere"
Paine wrote that "the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles or whether you ever had any".
Paine did not separate feeling from thoughts, or he would have recognized his criticisms of GW for rhetoric, unsupported by the felt truths of mankind.
Poetry and law do not work as well directed against each other as they do together, directed at a common enemy, such a death cult that subverts church and governments.
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