ing. The figures are
differently expressed but exactly the same.

_Paine._

"Like wasting an estate on a suit at law to
regulate the trespasses of a tenant, whose lease
is just expiring."

_Junius._

"Like broken tenants who have had warning to quit
the premises, they curse their landlord, destroy
the fixtures, throw every thing into confusion,
and care not what mischief they do the estate."

The above is the same figure, but differently applied. This figure is
quite often used by Mr. Paine and Junius.

_Paine._

"Quitting this class of men, I turn with the warm
ardor of a friend, to those who have nobly stood
and are yet determined to stand the matter out. I
call not upon a few, but upon all, up and help us;
lay your shoulders to the wheel."--Crisis, i.

_Junius._

"I turn with pleasure from that barren waste in
which no salutary plant takes root, no verdure
quickens, to a character fertile as I willingly
believe in every great and good qualification. I
call upon you, in the name of the English nation,
to stand forth in defense of the laws of your
country and to exert in the cause of truth and
justice those great abilities with which you were
intrusted for the benefit of mankind."--Let. 68.

There are two facts in the above parallel showing that the same mind
indited both. First: Turning away from those who have deserved and who
have been receiving his censure to the friends of the cause; and,
Secondly: The call which immediately follows: "I call upon you." That it
was not stolen from Junius by Mr. Paine, is proven by two facts. First:
The language and figure are different; and, Secondly: That which makes
it a parallel it is impossible to steal. It is a parallel of conditions,
the one in England and the other in America. But if Junius were not Mr.
Paine, then would the conditions be destroyed. But there is a parallel
of conditions, which can not be plagiarized; therefore Thomas Paine was
Junius.

If it be argued in answer to this reasoning: There might be just such
conditions existing with the character Junius in England as with Paine
in America, which might produce a parallel as above, I admit the
possibility; but the chances are infinity to