Plain Truth
AuthorJames Chalmers
LanguageEnglish

Plain Truth is a pamphlet authored by the loyalist James Chalmers in 1776, as a rebuke of Thomas Paine's Common Sense.[1]

Chalmers used the pen name "Candidus". Plain Truth stated that Thomas Paines' complaints about the British Monarchy were 'invalid' and 'barbaric'.

References

  1. Adams, Thomas R. (1955). "The Authorship and Printing of "Plain Truth" by "Candidus"". The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 49 (3): 230–248. doi:10.1086/pbsa.49.3.24299760. JSTOR 24299760. S2CID 192941310. Retrieved 2021-12-04.
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