The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-05-30


field of existence. Undisturbed with meditations upon
the past future, unshackled with matrimony almost
freed from disease and the seeds of decay, performing
the little labor necessary to subsistence, chiefly by
chnery, with the greatest abundance of the best of
cry thing Tor human nature "a tavorte phrase these
pretty will have little to do, but to eat and drink
and rise up to pay billing like turtle doves, long
mutual liking lasts and dissolvng the partnership
with the first harbingers of murky atmosphere They
will treasure chemistry, philosophy and useful know
ledge, and pry into of natures prvacies in new
sort of style. Children of five years will know more
than the best educated scholars of twenty do in the
present order of things The world is to be dotted off
into one immense family OF communities, of mini
mum of 3Ou, and maximum OF 2OU0, all wantoning
in the aforesaid rich clover field Travelling is to be
freed from its bitter concomant, expense for the ira
weller will be every where at home, and welcome to
the commonwealth of the community. Society will
be inexpressibly deectable for like will cling to like
precisely like two magnets. Such is MIR Ovens ro-
nance of the social system-as fair pony, fra
grant as white honey suckle as loving, the YER
moner said, forty-and, alas short lived the
prophets gourd.
The particles which compose my body said the
philosopher eternal. They had no beginning, and
can have end. shall be decomposed, and lose my
consciousness in death, to be recomposed and 10 re-
appear in forms of life and enjoyment AT least
he could not be charged with disguise reservation
but out with giatuitous painness in the most re-
voting and desoating tenets OF the creed of the ever
lasting sleep of DEATH AS he uttered tins general
revuson of horror passed the countenance of
the crowded audience. We felt at that moment the
long covered Goals of own eloquence burning in
our bosom and iancied that could have made an
overwhelming appeal to the horror stricken multitude
Not so Mr. Campbell. He had other combinations
for the close of the campaign, and had determined TO
put his antagonist to the logical sword, in his time
and way, SecundWm Grtem. Mr. Owen, aware of the
impression he had created diverted the of feel
ing by pun My friends said he, you have heard
these wonderful stories. lfyou cam away with them all
you are able indeed to swallow camel Campbell
They very often had good and palpable hits at each
other raising good hunored laugh at each others
expense. Mr. Campbell generally commenced his
tilt of thirty minutes, by presenting Mr. Owens po-
sons in ridiculous light, often availing himself of
the argument of redmctio Gd abSurdum. Many of his
eur desprits singularly quick and felictous.-
Amidst the general laugh Mr. Ovens equanimity new
er for moment deserted him. Some of his own re-
tors flashed upon the yawny tediousness of the pro-
longed contest, like lightning at midnight. We give
two, which remain distinctly on our memory.
A certain Paul Brown wrote book, entitled a
twelve months residence in New Harmony He was
a disappointed grumbletonian, and did up Mr. Owen
and his system, as with cleaver. 'We have Just
heard,' said Mr. Campbell, MIR Owens beautiful the
DRY of the social system; and Paul Browns twelve
months residence at New Harmony'-and he made a
rhetorical pause to give force to the intended sarcasm
in saying, 'otu sho,o the thing in practice.-Mr Owen
who had hitherto received the thirty minutes fire of his