THE ANDREWS' CUP

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3837, 16 April 1881, Page 2

THE ANDREWS' CUP

; (To the Editor of the Erening Star.) Sib,—l noticed a local in yesterday's issue of your contemporary to the effect that numbers of the Thames Eifle Bangers have gone with other companies to the Waikafcd with Captain Douglas' permission, &e. Pow, it is true Captain Douglas offered no objection to any memr' ber^ of his company who particularly' desired to go; but, sir, when I inform you that one solitary Ranger is gone, I think you will, with me. consider that the unanimity and'; esp^dt r th> -oovpe~- displayed ~ " by this company is exceedingly creditable, and you will be able to judge of the truth and object of the paragraph referred to. The Thames Rifle Rangers have always been noted for the unanimous manner in which they conduct their .business, and they never have been more so than of late, so I hope that such misleading statements will not mar the success of their anniversary, but that a bumper house will greet them on this occasion.— I am, &c, , Ran&eb;;

him. I was also in communication with men who had^known Tiim- personally. I ""found him to'tre- that" typical Englishman, honest, courageous/-and constant, a lover of justice, a. man of*,the reAl.Old.ana! Hew England.stamp, religious according to his light, it may,be.,pugnacious in attacking what to bird' seemed error, but at least jriilore wrerant than hisi oppbnent'Sr'berievdlentgenerous. ( ftnd nj Born-o£,the lower classes,'! with only a . grammar- schopl education, he must have made something 'bfjhi__self, l_&ust have also acquired some decency of behaviour, to become the friend of " Franklin,'; Jefferson, and _ liafayette.^and, for "a time the companion ' (of-tbrd Edwar'd Fitzgerald, living in the,, lame house with ■ him' in! Paris. Of him Lord Edward writes, October 30, .1792, '^tfo'sucti great wh'ile' after'!the accustomed to the Bordentown bar: | "I~ lodge wit i my friend Paine. We breakfast, and sup together. The more I" ice of his interior,' the more SI like and | respect him. I cannot express hovr kind h^ , i«.to me., .There is a simplicity of, manners, a "goddnesß of heart, and a strength'of mind in him that I never knew a man before possess." j

So also Coldriel Burr, Who knew him after his return to America; and who replied to,an inquirer_as to Paine's habits (it was the inquirer himself who informed me),! " Sir, he dined at my table;" adding: " I always considered Mr Paine a gentleman, a pleasant companion, and a good-natured and intelligent man; de^ cidedly temperate, with a proper regard to his personal appearance, whenever I ._aw-him." " l Yes; this man, still pointed out to abhorrence as a coarse, brawling, brandy T tippling reviler of religion, was indeed a gentleman, a highrsouled man of genius and philanthropic purpose, a man of remarkable probity and disinterestedness, a notably good man ; and known to be so in his own day, however buried now-in the mud flung at him by ; caluminators, and heaped again by those who care not to learn the truth concerning him.