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

flexible in purpose settle these long agitated ques-
tons, in justice and judgment, that they might hence
forth sleep forever Imagine the emanating brightness
which beamed from the chronological domain of the
aforesaid seven sages, who purposey appointed
70 hear and Determine touching these momentous ques
tons.
Then we gazed at the two athlete and imagined the
munitions of ogomachy laid away in mysterious and
awful order and power in the precincts of two
small heads. We silently admired the infinite COM
pressibiity of that knowledge, which is power more
energetic than Numbered from all the cannon at Boro-
dino.
Every has seen the face or the print of the be-
neVocnt social cosmopolite the Welsh philosopher,
whose strange taste it is, to wander the world be-
slowing vast in charity, and to obtain in return
| an ample harvest of yihcation and abuse He was
dressed in Quaker painness wearing his customary
undaunted sepossessed good natured face surmount-
ed, as most people know with intellectual rudder
of almost portentous amplitude that might well have
been deemed an acquisition in pilgrimage the pro-
montory Of noses. From each side of this prominent
index of mental power beamed such an ncessant eff
fux OF cheerfuness, might well shame, in compal-
son, the and trstfu visage of many an heir of
the hone of immortality.
The chiyalrous champion of the covenant is citi-
zen of Bethany, Wheeling, in Virginia gentle
man. we should think, between thirty and forty with
long face, rather small head of sparkling bright
and cheerful countenance and finely arched forehead
in the earnest vigor Of youth, and with the very FIRST
Oh Wlte on MS crown lie wore aspect,
of one who had words both ready and nezhaustibe,
and possessed of the excellent grace of
to degree, that he would retreat an inch in the
way of concession to escape the crack and pudder of
dssolving world. His venerable gray headed faith
er, also clergyman, and two younger brothers,
with him. 1t understood, that he independent
in point of property and that he edits religious pa
per of extensive circulation. 1t ought to be for
cotton, that both the father and perform their cer
zeal duties to the congregation, at Bethany, GRATIS
Mr. Owen had kind Of second, too, in a young Ger
man gentleman, who travels with him as an nterpre-
ter. senographer, also sat in the enclosure of the
altar, to take notes of the debate
When the Welsh philosopher arose, might have been
seen, in their most amusing relief eyes strained mouths
hafopen, and heads bent forward. We him forth
with mounted on his wonted black hobby, 'the social
system? 1t was not long, before discovered that
the champion of the covenant in like manner, sported
magnificent mottled hobby which our innate rever-
ence for holy things forbidden to The his
torian relateth with grief that during the eight long
days of this logical tournament these two coursers
riding up and down the field of controversy con-
stany menacing fight but coming to close quar-
ters in the actual tug of battle; for To- instead of an
efectua closing in of quiddtes and metaphysical
cuts and trusts, which expected would make the
lint fly, at once, MIR Owen fought shy, reserved his
fire and entrenched himself impregnably behind the
twelve divine, fundamental laws of human nature
precisely soldiers did the glorious eighth be-
hind the cotton bales below New Orleans On the
contrary. western friend Of the Mt ebouad