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                                                                       Auburn Sept. 2nd 1866

My Friends

                    I have aletter somewhere in my 

Port Folio that I wrote you, sometime in June or July, but for imagining it might lack interest with you I did not send it. Were I to Say to you that ___ world through all past ages had been fooled by an infurnal pack of spi= its, I should say just what I have often repeated to you both, I did not find this fact originally in others, but in myself. When I be gan to re____ my own being, I found that I was really a completeness constitution= ally, and organically. I then questioned, and do now, whether if after I have lived mil lions of ages, and unfolded in wisdom with emerging precision, and ____ ra pidity that I should not be able to suggest one single improvement to this existence denominated Edward Wheeler. I asked them why was it that it did not in gratifica = tion, respond to its natural completeness Ransack creation through, and we cannot find a reply from any constitutional or any organic defect. I find it all in the artificial. I find man plundered through the ___ measures he is fooled into sup porting. To me it is a marvel that man is so good. When first awaking to con= sciousness, he is met with anything but that which is calculated to im= press his susceptible nature favor= ably, next as he awakens to comprehen ding ideas, he is informed on all hands that he is a poor devil, needing salva= tion, or in spiritualism an ____ that needs a guardian, and he goes, tottering along praying for Salvation in the religious world, or limping after his treacherous guardian in the other code, Society tells him that he must not pretend to be an individual, but a social being. The state says he must not think of governing himself, but ____ play such men as Andy Johnson who never was capable of self control, to gov vern him. And by such men he is still farther ____, which by a villanous