Thomas Paine's Imprisonment and Washington.

The Americans in Paris, whom, as Joel Barlow says, American revolutionary patriot Thomas Paine had often, befriended, were not likely to forget that he was in prison. Morris speaks of " crimes imputed to him," though none was alleged except his being a "foreigner"; the hint, however, was enough to frighten Paine's friends and prevent their pressing his demand for trial, which would have revealed then what the French archives now reveal-that Paine's papers were searched and pronounced innocent and that no accusation was ever brought against him except that of Morris.