William Duane, Jeffersonian editor of the Philadelphia Aurora. Engraved portrait (1802) by C.R.J. Fevret de Saint-Memin. From The St.-Memin Collection of Portraits. try!' The Anti-Democrat briefly outlined Paine's itinerary—that he would go to Washington in a few days, then on to Fredericktown, Philadelphia, and New York, before returning to Washington—and concluded on a note of outraged indignation: "It is possible that Painfe], like Jefferson, may visit the tomb of Washington.—Oh!'21 Rather than simply announcing Paine's arrival, the Philadelphia Aurora took advantage of the occasion to weave an elaborate defense for the celebrated figure: Thomas Paine, the early and uniform asserter of the Rights of Mankind, and author of the immortal revolutionary pa[p]ers called common sense, and the crisis, arrived at Baltimore on Saturday last. The arrival of this interesting man, whose history as has been well observed, is interwoven with the immortality of two revolutions and three nations of the [fi]rst distinction in human annals, was as might be expected, an object of interest and curiosity to the old who knew his services, and to the young who had heard of his fame in all the opposite modes which political sympathy or hatred could employ to express their respect or abhorrence of the asserter of freedom. nibid.