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after they had disposed of Harmony in Pennsylvania, moved here, 
and felled the first tree to found New Harmony in a country in¬ 
habited only by wolves, Indians, bears, rattlesnakes, &e. The 
hills immediately next to the place, are already cleared of timber 
of the larger kind; they are converted into vineyards, and partly 
into orchards. Farther off are meadows and fields to the right, 
and to the left fruit and vegetable gardens, carefully enclosed by 
palisades. New Harmony itself, has broad unpaved streets, in 
which good brick houses appear alternately, with framed cabins 
and log houses: the streets are regular, running at right angles. 
We took up our quarters in the only tavern there, belonging to 
the community; it was passable. 
Rapp’s society, called from their former residence, the Har- 
monites, consisted of Wurtemburgers. Their early history is 
known, and perhaps, when I visit this society from Pittsburgh in 
their new establishment, u Economy,” I may find an opportu¬ 
nity to say more concerning them. Rapp sold New Harmony in 
the year 1825, to the Englishman, Robert Owen, and left there 
with his people on the 5th of May, to go up the Ohio to Econo¬ 
my. Mr. Owen was originally engaged in manufactures, and 
possessed a large cotton factory at New Lanark, on the Falls of 
Clyde, ten miles from Glasgow in Scotland, where he had, by 
the adoption of a new system of education and formation of cha¬ 
racter, changed a collection of one thousand rude labourers into 
a community of industrious beings. His system, and his ideas 
upon the situation of human society, as well as the improvements 
that are capable of being made, he has divulged in a series of es¬ 
says, which are collected, and appear in print under the name of 
a new view of society. They conclude with the project of a con¬ 
stitution for a community formed on his system, 
Mr. Owen is an enemy to all sects, the spirit of which has 
generated so much evil under the imposing name of religion. 
He allows each person liberty to believe in what he may consi¬ 
der to be good; so that a pure Deism is the peculiar religion of 
his adherents. On this account he was very obnoxious to the 
prevailing sects in Great Britain, and accordingly his system 
could not extend itself there. He was therefore induced to 
turn his attention to the United States, and particularly to the 
western part of the Union, where, as he says, there is less hy¬ 
pocrisy of religion prevailing than to the east. He then purchas¬ 
ed New Harmony from Mr. Rapp, and commenced his estab¬ 
lishment in the month of May last. As he laid the foundation 
of it entirely on perfect equality and community of property, 
many enthusiasts in these principles from various parts of the 
Union joined themselves to him; and also a number of vagabonds 
and lazy worthless persons, from all parts of the world, that 
