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and I'm celebrating America 250 by reading primary documents written for or by the founders for as many

days of the year as I can. Thank you for joining me

for this mini episode of Getting Hammered. Today in 1776, everyone is talking about Thomas

Payne's common sense. No, really everyone is. This is a letter and a diary entry from Landon Carter,

a Virginia planter and pamphleteer, who's the diary of Colonel Landon Carter is a great source

for colonial life in the run-up to

independence. In this collection of letters and diary entries, Carter and an editor recount the

misadventure of asking for a slot for his grandson, also named Landon, on Washington's staff,

but also some critical thoughts on common sense, of whose authorship Carter was not sure,

but he had heard it could be General Lee. General Lee was also himself known as a bit of an essayist. Here's the diary. In his diary entry for 20th, February 1776, Landon Carter of Richmond County, Virginia, says that he, quote, wrote to Colonel Francis Lightfoot Lee and General Washington about getting Land and made aid de camp to the Major General,

who is to command our forces. I could not help in both those letters giving my sentiments on the

pamphlet called common sense. It is so replete with art and contradiction, and man is represented

in it as a being which ought to be not only unforgiving but implacable to the highest degree,

and he that does not so think is nothing short of a

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