... of Paine's volume the man of Dundee was something like the contemporary ship owner, Stephen Girard of Philadelphia, whose sympathies alike with his native land and its liberal philosophers, he evinced by naming his ships after Voltaire, Diderot, and so forth (Stafford, p. 7). The significance of Voltaire in this regard lies; first, in the fact that, like the other thinkers mentioned in this passage ... , the blue-jackets, to be numbered by thousands, ran up with huzzas the British colors with the union and cross wiped out; by that cancellation transmuting the flag of founded law and free...

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