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


within three years. the houses would be tenaness s"s
the inhabitants, emped into the city of mental nds
pendence.' 1t was home thrust and seemed almos
too severe for the comfy of debate, in which tbo
parties constantly called each other 'y WORTHY friend
MIR Owen arose with his nvincble equanimty of oood
humor. 'At that time, said he, being pronbet ana
ayailing myself of prophets phraseology, snake
prophetic years. Taking the exposition of nv worthy
friend, the period of my prediction includes sometime
like $50 years. The prophecy will be fulfilled lOpa
before that
MIR Campbell possesses fine voice, little incn.
ed to the nasal and first rate attributes and endov
mens for lawyer in the interior perfect secDose,
sion, Quickness of apprehension, and readiness OF re
tort all disciplined to effect by long controversial train.
ing. The words logic, ratiOcindtion, sglogSm pr.
misses, subject, predicate, conclusion dilemma demon.
strdtton GTio DC, We're uttered perhaps TOO frequent
ly and the whole had too much the air of being said
I'D captondum. We forbear to notice tie unfortunate
demonstration touching the two parallel lines. Ina
popular argument before such an audience many pro.
vincialisms. and ungrammatical phrases, ought, Of
course, to be excused. But we could with difficulty,
reconcile his occasional fine flights with the bad fase
of introducing God and the Saviour in such perfectly
equal, trivial. and common parlancc cooquy with
mortals, as he often ascribed TO them. We know that
this is almost the universal popular strain in the west
ern country. man of such talents and powers ought
to give the first example of correcting it. The ncon.
grulty of such associations in every trained mind is
monstrous We dissented wholly from his favonte TIE.
DRY, that the idea of GOO, spirit, an altar priest
&c. could only have been taught by revelation or ira.
ditlon We yielded no reader faith to his declaration
that language must have had the same origin. Some
parts of that system of Christianity which he present
ed, as new, as they seemed circumstantia sngu
lar and whimsical to us; and the whole Of the logo
macy had resemblance to any thing rather than pub
lie forensic discussion at Cambridge or Yale.
But apart from these defects, they seemed to US
he evlnced very great amount of various reading oil
every thing that could be supposed relevant to his dis
cussion. Every ancient writer, sacred proane, that
had left any remains, which had the least bearing upon
his subject, from his niche to instruct us. War
burton, Newton, Locke, Milton, Butler, Soame Jel'
nngs, and the great of that class were put IN
requsition on the one hand and the whole herd Oh
philosophers, scepcs, and atheists the other were
evoked from their sleep of the tomb, to be compared
judged and sentenced His proofs of christianity were
of the common character, and arranged in the com
mon way We cannot say that the arguments were
stronger or better arranged than Paleys but they
were able; and we at once pleased and surprs'
ed to find that his views of christianity were decidedly
of the liberal cast In his contrast between the ten
denotes of the two systems, and the hopes OF chr
tian departing in the joyful triumph of faith to ns
eternal home and the desoate sullenness OF the ep
curean, laying himself down under the omnpotn'
pressure Of hostile nature to the eternal sleep Oh p
grave, he was impressive and happy. Very Often eu'
ring the debate, he manifested those resources winch
belong only to an endowed and disciplined mind.
On the seventh day of the debate, the shot III 'n0