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Josiah Warren, “Social Experiment” (1831)

August 11, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
[two_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] SOCIAL EXPERIMENT. I have never inserted a Communication in this paper, which I believe will be perused with more interest by many of its readers, than the following. As the facts came under our friend’s observation, not mine, I shall add no opinion or deductions of my own, for each reader can make these for himself. I content myself with saying; that our friends may implicitly depend on the accuracy of Josiah Warren’s information; for he is a strictly attentive observer and an honest man. I need not tell him, that his letters will always […]
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Lewis Masquerier in “The Free Enquirer” (1834)

June 30, 2018 Shawn P. Wilbur
Dear Sir,—I have received the Free Enquirer, and herein enclose you five dollars. I betrayed great ignorance when I wrote for it, last winter, but I had then just waked in my morn of reason, from my night of superstition; and living in these frontier regions, I was not certain that there was a liberal press in the Union.

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