The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-09-29

that l have received an insult from my |
neighbour: when alone, and nothing occurs
to arrest my attention, can call up in my
mind the transactions between US; | can
deliberate on what may have been his mo-
tives; / can recall and examine my own
conduct towards him, and discover whether
/ have given him sufficient provocation; and
can determine whetherto resent the insult, or
to forgive it. If in this deliberation, listen
to phlegmatic disposition, to passion, and
to propensity to revenge, listen, as 1t
were, to false witnesses; and IT let their
testimony have weight in influencing my
Judgment, it will lead to an act, for which
may have to repent, even though not amen
able to the laws. The manner of my de-
| liberation and determination, and of con-
forming to, or resisting my propensity to
revenge, arc what understand by an ex
ercise of the freedom of mind: and for the
consequence, am justly accountable to the
inward monitor: yet the receiving of the
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termination given to the will, were each of
them circumstances, in producing the &C
ton that followed, entirely beyond my con-
troll.
"The errors of mctaphysicians on the
liberty Of man, have arisen from their regard
ing his will, as the first moving power of his
actions; and of which, for 7oant of recur.
ing further back, they have not seen the
multiplied and complicated causes, which,
independent of him, give motion to his will
itself, while he is purely passive in the motion
that he receives"
II we have succeeded in proving that man
is not free agent, it becomes serious en-
quiry whether, in strict and rigorous justices
, whether, on the equitable principles Of ci,
ther natural religion or the prccepts oi
Christ, he ought to be punished by human
laws; and consequently, whether Robert
! Owen in excluding rewards and punishment
. from his code, is disorganizer Of Society oil
bencfactor Of mankind.
! If it can be practically demonstrated, that
"by judiciously training, the infants OF an.
J one class, may be readily formed into men o
; any other" that ifby withdrawing from maj
all motives fo- vice and crime, he will ceas'
to be vicious and criminal: that if by sur
rounding him with circumst ances III who
there will be no temptation to vlciou
!, course of life, he will become really an
|. truly moral, rational, and social being; W
' will be compelled to pronounce the tounda
ton and superstructuie of our present sys
II tenn of society ilconsistant, erroneotS, an
/ syicked; inasmuch, as it is founded on tn
J. supposed "natural deprayity OF man, and @
II his power of forming his own indivldu'
t character y and consequently, that for tn
'e security of social order, it is only necessal
Il to surround him with criminal laws suite
e to his supposed nature.
=. These laws, from the very nature of the
~ foundation, gu arantce to the rich and pow
: crrul, more than nature requires or desigr
&C for them and withholds from the poo, an
20 feeble the things which nature requires the
'c should have, and which is necessary for the
Id existancc, WITHOUT A JUST EQUIV
A. ALENT. Ifthese poor creatures, in the
S desperate situation between starving an
c stealing, should retaliate on that societ
nc which has enough for all and to spare, b'
a. withholds from them; and they attempt
lg get by force or stealth what nature require
N and what it designed they should have; :
le these unjust and unnatural associations G
IN ther cause them to be hung, or else to
at manned at the whipping-E post, and turnt
e loose, vagabonds and off-casts in this unju
OF and more criminal association, which fir
We made crimes necessary for these individual
nd and then punished them for those crimes.
to EROSTRATUS.
lis
MASSACRE IN The SOUTH SEA.
lt; The British Press, received by the sh
Courier, contains All account OF massacr
by a number of the Natives of Navaoo,
y board of the South Sea whaler Elzabet
MS while she was laying near that island. III
lat inhabitants are represented to be of CO..
~ per color, and most of them of a gigant
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