Subtitle: Catos Letter No. 62. On Liberty, January 20th, 1722. I closed a recent squib with, They (the writings of Sidney, Locke, Tacitus) bolstered what liberty-loving Americans had experienced and looked forward to: happiness in a natural equality among self-governing, God-fearing men. As for Locke, colonial Americans absorbed his philosophy and much more through Catos Letters: Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, a series of entertaining newspaper opinion pieces (1720-1723) by two Englishmen, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon.