The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1828-11-01
Ort9tmaI Gale.
FOR THE DELAWARE REGISTER.
BLYTHE CONWAY:

OR, THE MISERABLE EFFECTS OF AvARICE.
MANY wears have passed. and mutudes have gone down
to the grave there lived in the lower part of the State
Of Delaware, few miles from the Bay that washes its east
ern coast venerable minister of the gospel of the Meho-
dist connexion named Henry Worthngon His natural tai
Of order, his education had been be-
rail- and he possessed heart overlooking with benevoence
He was native Of England in which country he had expe
renced caamties that woud broken down his SPIRIT had
been for that faith which behods in every dpensaton
Of Providence, the hand Of Father too wise to do wrong
and good deal unkndy The partner bosom and
his only child intelligent and pious daughter who had just
entered her eighteenth year. and to have been uni
ted matrmony every way worthy of such precious
gift struck dead by Lightning before his eyes; aordng
painful evidence that not always the guilty head de-
scend the fated FASH Circumstances that could not be
foreeen provided against had stripped him of the greater
portion of what little worldly property he possessed and after
much meditation and prayer he concluded to bid adeu TO his
native place. where every object around him calculated
fill his mind with bitter recolecons Shortly after his
rival America he settled in Delaware at the spot before
mentioned where, by his humility his holy life and
on his labors of love and unrng zeal and faithuness
the of his Divine Master, he gained the good will and
Of all the inhabitants Of the neghborhood except
few who did wish stop short their ungodly career
and could not bear the admonons and reproof of this faith
full of Heaven Of this small number middle
aged man named BLYTHE CONWAY, noted only for his
cou disposition and his oppression Of the poor His dwell
ling about four miles from Mr. Worthingtons His wife
died before the latter settled amongst hem and his family
consisted Of himself his daughter Matilda, grown to woman
hood and several negroes He universally dslked and
few visited his house except business He attended
the preaching of the gospel, and it with great difficulty
his daughter could prevail him permit her to frequent
the house Of prayer Matilda had always been of serious
disposition, and her virtues had endeared her to all her ac
quantances Her father though absolutely cruel to her
far from treating her with that kindness which her exe
pary attention him entitled her receive and her unaba
ted affection for him. under such circumstances excited the
admiration of their neghbors She had attended the minis
try of Mr. Warrington but few months till she made So
Tenn public dedication of herself God and united herself
10 the little flock which had been collected by the ubors of
that good man. This step with the violent oppos
lion from her father who, from that time forbid the clerpy
man from entering his house.
Before proceeding further must inform my readers that
Conway with all his wealth. unhappy man. and sore
ormented by accusing conscience. He ddnot like ma
n.y. attempt 10 drown the voice of that faithful monitor with
H. by resort 10 the nebriang goblet But, conceal his
wetcedness from the public eye, he spent much his time
solitude, and frequently, night, without regard to the
sae of the weather, woGd he wander through the eghbor-
rag country, and often not return till morning. He