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came to this place. I am now wielding the
"pen and scissors" in the "Editorial Sanctum" of a
weekly newspaper, in this Athens of the South. I
have trespassed so long upon your patience that I
will not venture to give you a description of my
manner of life here, or say anything of my impressions
of Southern Society and Institutions. If this letter does
not prove to great a bore, I may by and by write anoth-
er. I am the only Socialist in this town, and, as
far as I know, in Georgia. The people here are entirely
ignorant of our doctrines, but have an idea that
they are entirely subversive of virtue and morality as
well as of the rights of property sacredness of the
family relation!! I think there are a few minds
in the South that are prepared for the reception
of our views, and they are found in the small
class of highly educated men connected with some
of the colleges! The wealthy slave-holding class live
in luxurious ease, and are well satisfied with things
as they are, and the white industrials - (mechanics &c.)
are too poor, too ignorant and too stupid to be
reached at all.

My friends, I need hardly say that I
feel most painfully the lack of the society and sym-
pathy of those who "rejoice in the same faith" and
that, tho' surrounded by friends, I am in one sense
alone. I would now willingly travel, on foot, one hun-
dred miles, to attend one of the meetings of the Boston
Union of Associationists, could I thus accomplish this