Perhaps no other work in American history had the immediate impact of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. While it tilted many indecisive colonists to the side of independence, it also alienated those who wanted to remain a part of the British Empire. The Reverend Charles Inglis, a British-born Anglican minister living in New York City, offered the following response to Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense.
I think it no difficult matter to point out many advantages which will certainly attend our reconciliation and connection with Great-Britain, on a firm, constitutional plan. I shall select a few of these; and that their importance may be more clearly discerned. . . .
Source: Charles Inglis, The True Interest of America Impartially Stated, in Certain Strictures on a Pamphlet Intitled [sic]Common Sense (Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1776), 47–49.