American revolutionary Thomas Paine published the pamphlet “The American Crisis” with the goal of bolstering the morale of the badly injured and low spirited American forces who had been faced with difficult battles throughout the revolution and were suffering for it. This pamphlet reminded Americans exactly what they were fighting for and expressed their various hardships as hurdles that would inevitably lead to a glorious victory. Within the pamphlet Paine also heavily expressed the feelings of disgust he felt for those who sided with Britain known as the “Tories,” and any others that chose to act as cowards in the face of battle. This pamphlet was read to large numbers of troops as per the orders of George Washington and just like Paine’s other notorious pamphlet “Common Sense,” this pamphlet helped fuel the flames of the revolution and give …show more content…
Paine then writes that “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country.” The people Paine is referring to here are American soldiers who leave the battlefield when things get tough, and only return if victory is plausible. Paine finds the behavior of these people detestable and makes it a point in the pamphlet. Paine then continues by introducing another group of people he feels nothing but contempt for. The group in question were the Tories or in other words the people who still remained loyal to Britain. In Paine’s words he defines Tories as “servile, slavish, and self-interested.” Paine believed that Tories were incapable of bravery and claimed that they were simple slaves to the crown. He even made a statement that he would not be afraid to take on one thousand Tories with an army of one hundred whigs by his