Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number I. "Not a man lives on the continent but fully believes that a separation must some tim
e or other finally take place, and a generous parent should have said, 'If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.'" Which phrase in the excerpt is an emotional appeal to the reader?
Paine is utilizing an anecdote about a man that he met in the town of Amboy to represent how a few homesteaders are attempting to maintain a strategic distance from war with England, which Paine sees as inescapable. The man he met in Amboy owned a bar and had a young child.
