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Thomas Earle was born on April 21, 1796. He was the son of Pliny Earle, a manufacturer of wool-carding machinery, and Patience (Buffum) Earle, who resided at Leicester, Massachusetts.
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Thomas Earle was born on April 21, 1796. He was the son of Pliny Earle, a manufacturer of wool-carding machinery, and Patience (Buffum) Earle, who resided at Leicester, Massachusetts.
After attending the common schools and Leicester Academy, he passed several years in his father’s employ, but as business was not prosperous he went to Worcester, Massachusetts, where he became a clerk in a store.
In 1817 he removed to Philadelphia, and engaged in the commission business there for six years. He had no liking or capacity for a mercantile career, however, and in 1824 commenced the study of law.
On his being admitted as an attorney, April 2, 1825, he opened a law office in Philadelphia, at the same time engaging in literary and political work. His journalistic abilities were quickly recognized and he became editor successively of the Columbian Observer and The Standard.
In the course of his legal studies he discovered that the Constitution of Pennsylvania was extremely defective and needed amendment. This he urged in the local newspapers, but it was not until he had acquired a proprietary interest in The Mechanics’ Free Press and Reform Advocate and devoted its columns to the subject, that the public became aroused. His continued agitation at length procured the calling of the constitutional convention of 1837, to which he wras a delegate.
He took a leading part in its deliberations and many of the amendments which he advocated were accepted and embodied in the new constitution. Two reforms, however, which he ardently advocated, the democratization of the judiciary, and the extension of the suffrage to colored people, were rejected after long and acrimonious debate. His views on the franchise procured for him the lasting displeasure of a large section of the Democratic party, thereby destroying all chances of future political preferment.
In 1840 at a convention of “Friends of Immediate Emancipation” held at Albany, New York, he was selected as candidate of the Liberty party for vice-president of the United States with James G. Birney for president, but he was repudiated by the abolitionists in whose name the Liberty party had made the nomination, and his name did not appear upon the ticket.
He had in his earlier days published an Essay on Penal Law in Pennsylvania (1827) and a pamphlet, The Right of States to Alter or Annul Charters (1823). These were followed by his Treatise on Railroads and Internal Communications (1830), the first book written in the United States on this subject. His last completed work was The Life, Travels and Opinions of Benjamin Lundy (1847 ).
He was an excellent linguist, well acquainted with French, German, Italian, and Spanish, and during his later years was engaged on the compilation of a “Grammatical Dictionary of the French and the English Languages” and a translation of Sismondi’s Italian Republics, both of which were unfinished at his death.
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He had been all his life an avowed opponent of slavery, and for a time was editor of The Pennsylvanian, the anti-slavery newspaper in the state. Henceforth, he took no active part in public affairs, but devoted himself to literary pursuits.
Meantime, in July 1820, he had married Mary Hussey of Nantucket, Massachusetts.