The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-06-13

uncle Jacob attempting by question to obge his
niece to converse.
aNo-not all-not much returned Jane, speak
;nc very quick Z" am not interested i'll it, uncle
| always hated diary. 1t looks so methodstic and
mechanical | think author can be so particular,
;tbou having in all his actions and speeches. refer
once TO the note book. Can thoughts be free when
one is subjected to the trammels of entering them all
on the diary, as regularly as merchant would his ac-
counts would not, for the universe, undertake to be
Tins particuar; and always pity the writers of such
minute facts too much to enjoy the information their
labors would otherwise afford me-
But there is one care that frequently Expresses
vo which the good Bishop seldom if appears to
have felt He had to endure very tedious long
day" said uncle Jacob, smiling.
"Will keeping diary always preserve us from en-
nul 2? demanded Jane.
"The endeavor to have something worthy to record,
would preserve US, my dear. The industrious and
the studious seldom complain of very tedious. long
day."
Nov shall hear that saving of mine for this whole
season presume,' replied the laughing girl, as she
took her uncles hand, and affectonately pressed it
between both hers. I" Yet said it merely because
did not at the moment think of any observation more
wise. forgot how very circumspect it was necessa-
ny to boz
"When conversing with your old fashioned FRIEND"
interrupted her uncle. Well, well, | forgive you,
and if loved you less should be indulgent to
your little fobles. But, Jane, IN this age OF energy
and improven ent, nothing strikes me more unpeas-
anly except gross vice, than to see young persons
idle and hear their listless complaints of the tedious
ness of time can very well believe that the days
must be tedious and long those of your sex, excud
ed as you are from the business and hustle of the
world who have no literary resources But now,
when we men are willing, not only to allow you have
talents but even TO encourage you to employ them,
the woman who wastes her time in frivolous pursuits,
or fashionable amusements-and such people are
those who oftenes complain of very tedious long days
deserves to be despised and laughed at"
There are some men utterly destitute of every principle
Of honor-s nsensble every feeling of delicacyas
scoop the lowest and vest practices promote their inter-
est, or niure enemy. Such too common in
every country and under governments but they should
be branded with mamy, and secuted from society No one
safe from their malignityher breath pestence and
their touch agon They become secret formeTS or
dirty spes labor in their vocation, often from the pure
impulse of malice, envy hatred. Few communities are
exempt from these human vampires, who feast upon the de-
srucon they produce and gu upon the havoc and ruin they
create They destroy all confidence between man and man
for the most loose and innocent expression perverted or
tortured into meaning contemplated, magnfed TO
degree scarcely conceivable by the microscopic magnty
Of these moral If grounds wantng such is the
Of the gnawng 6end within them, that they resort to
ehood and abrcae the grossest caumnes to effect their
detesable end, and exu the they think their poison
be infused in secret, and without detection But truth
and virtue, however they may be shrouded for time, will
last Triumph and the base and groveng and wretched work
of these ends will be brought to gh and be made to
react in at just, gratifying and exemplary
Let suppose that vany always prosper in
this probationary suffering There an unseen but