I call attention to the phrases, "_common king_," "_common blood_," and "_common kindred_," in the same paragraph. Mr. Paine was never guilty of calling England the "parent" or "mother" country, but the "common" country. (See Common Sense, p. 36.) Junius in Let. 1 says: "A series of inconsistent measures has alienated the Colonies from their duty as subjects, and from their _natural affection_ to their _common country_." Jefferson uses "parent" and "mother" country, both before and after the writing of the Declaration. In connection with the above sentence from Junius, I subjoin the same sentiment in regard to _natural affection_ from the Declaration a few sentences further on, as follows: "These facts have given the last stab to agonizing _affection_, and manly spirit bids us to renounce forever these unfeeling brethren. We must endeavor to forget our former love for them, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends." Compare with this, Common Sense, p. 47, as follows: "To talk of friendship with those in whom our reason forbids us to have faith, and our _affections_ wounded through a thousand pores instruct us to detest, is madness and folly. Every day wears out the little remains of kindred between us and them." In regard to the phrase "_renounce forever_" above, as quoted from the Declaration, compare Common Sense, p. 38, as follows: "That seat of wretchedness [speaking of Boston] will teach us wisdom and instruct us to _forever renounce_ a power in whom we can have no trust." See also Common Sense, p. 37, as follows: "And our duty to mankind at large, as well as to ourselves, instructs us _to_ renounce the alliance." The expression "forever" will not be mistaken, for it runs through Junius' and all of Mr. Paine's writings as a common expression. The figure "to stab" is one which Mr. Paine adopted in Junius and carried through his whole life. Thus he talks about "stabbing the Constitution," and "to stab the character of the nation." The former is found in Junius, the latter in his Letter to the Abbe Raynal. The italicised phrases in the following expression, "_These facts_ have given the _last stab_ to _agonizing affection_, and _manly spirit bids_ us to _renounce forever_," etc., are so very like Mr. Paine, and so entirely unlike Mr. Jefferson, that the cursory reader, with the commonest understanding, would not fail to pronounce in favor of the former being the author. I now call attention to a striking peculiarity in regard to the mention of the Scotch. It is found in the same paragraph, and is as follows: "At this very time, too, they [our British brethren] are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our _common blood_, but _Scotch_ and foreign _mercenaries_, to invade and destroy us." The word mercenaries is used once before in the Declaration.