Litchfield enquirer., 1829-06-11
OWEN-IsM.
From Flint's Western Review for April.]

[From Flints Western Review for April] (coKcLUDED.)
 According to him MT. Owen) the social system is to be complete renovator and purifier. Under its influence man is to be regenerated into paradisiacal millennium. A nOvG prOgenies, new race of most beau tiful lads and lasses are to be turned to- gether into the clover field of existence. Undisturbed with medtations upon the past or future, unshackled with matrimo- ny, almost freed from disease and the seeds of decay, performing the little labor necessary to subsistence, chiefly by ma- chinery, with the greatest abundance of the best of every thing thing So for human nature { ts 3 tsdvorite phrase) these pretty ones will have little to do, but to eat, and drink, ,and rise up to play; billing like turtle doves, so long as mutual liking lasts; and dis solving the partnership with the first har- .bingefs of murky atmosphere.-T They will treasure chemistry, philosophy and useful knowledge, and pry into some of nature's privacies 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 isto be dotted off into one immense family of communities, minimum of 300, and maximum of 2OOO, all wantoning in the aforesaid rich clover field. Travel ling is freed from it's bitter concomitant expense; for the traveller will be every where at home, and welcome to the com- monwealtll. Society will be inexpressibly delectable; for like will cling to like, pre- cis1.y cisS.;i like two magnets. Sush is MT. Ovens romance of the social systsm-- as fair as piony, as fragrant as white honey suckle; as loving, as the Vermont CT said, asf forty -and, alas as short lived as the prophet's gourd.
 The particles which compose my be- dy,' said the philosopher, are eternal.-l They had no beginning, and can have no l end. shall be decomposed, and lose my consciousness in death, to be recompcseait and to reappear in new forms of life and enjoyment At least he could not be charged with disguise or reservation; but came outwith gratuitous plainness, in the Il most revolting and desolating tenets of the creed of the everlasting sleep of death. As he uttered this a general revulsion of horror passed across the countenance of the crowded audience. We felt at that moment the long covered coals of our own eloquence burning in our bosom and fan- cied that we could have made an over- whelming appeal to the horror stricken multitude. Not so Mr. Campbell. He had other combinations for the close of the campaign, andhad determined to put his antagonist to the logical sword, in his own time and way, secandum artem. Ms. Ow- en, aware of the impression he had crea- ted, diverted the current of feeling by a pun. My friends said he, you have heard these wonderful stories. Ifyou can, away with them all-you are able, indeed to swallow camel.-( Campbell.)
 They very often had good and palpa- ble hits at each other, raising good hu- mored laugh at each other's expense. Mr. Campbell generally commenced his tilt of thirty minutes, by presenting MT. Ow- ems positions in a ridiculous light, often availing himself of the argument of reds.ctio cd absarlam. Many of his jear q 'sprits were singularly quick and felicitous. A. midst the general laugh, MT. Ovens e. quanimity never for moment deserted him. Some of his own retorts flashed up- on the yawning seriousness of the prolong- ed 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 disappointed grpmbletonian, and did up MT. Owen and his system, as with cleaver. We have just heard,' said MT. Campbell, MT. Ow- en's beautiful theory of the social system !; and Paul Browns twelve months resi- dence at New Harmony'-and he made a rhetorical pause, to give force to the in- tended sarcasm, in saying, OiU shos0 the tk;ag tn practice. MT. Owen, who had hitherto received the thirty minutes fire of his antagonist, with smiling and un- wincing silence, saw what was coming af- ter Paul Browns twelve months resi- :dence ; and interjected in the rhetorical pause, $ all false The effect was elec- tric, though whole members of sentences arc required to relate it. Another rstort was still happier. MT. Campbell had