Litchfield enquirer., 1829-06-04

sing relief, eyes strained, mouths half open and heads bent, forward. We saw.llim forthwith mounted on his wonted black hobby, the social systemp It was not long, before we discovered that the cham pion of the covenant, in like manner, spor- ted a magnificent mottled hobby which our innate reverence for holy things forbidY delh US to names The historian relateth with grief, that during the eight long days of this logical tournament, these two cour- sers were riding up and down the field of controversy, constantly menacing fight, but never coming to close quarters in the actu- al tug of battle; for To instead of an effecr tual 'clcsing in of qualities and metaphys- ical cuts and thrusts, which we expected would make 'the lint fy,' at once. MT. ' Owen fought shy,' reserved his fire and entrenched himself impregnably behind the twelve divine, fundamental laws of hu. man nature, precisely as our soldiers did on the glorious eighth, behind the cotton bales below New Orleans. On the conr' trary, our western friend of the covenant showed manfll fight, on the open field to the end of the joust. ,h
 live could follow, and describe all tho. movements and eurvetings of the aforesaid , hobbies, during the momentous contest, we
 much fear our readers would not follow us;
 for they we'll know that to feel the zest, such things must be seen. We shalb therefore, only glance at the more prone inent performance each. 'The twelve fundamental laws, or twelve pillars of the social system, are pre- dictated on the following asserted doctrines We are the effects of our circumstancess as strictly as inanimate matter obeys it's laws. Therefore we are not subjects of responsibility, praise or blame. We can
 neither think, act, love, hate, marry, be-
 come fathers, eat, drink, sleep or die, oth-
 CT than as we do. These irresistible cir
 cumstances having placed us in predica-
 ment, every way naaseous and irrational, it follows, that we ought forthwith to as-
 sert our controul over these uncomfortable
 circumstances, and change them for the in.
 initely better class, which the philosopher
 proposeth in their stead. He came over these laws with frequency of develope. ment and repetition, which elicited free quent laugh at his expense from all, who , perceived not, that his sole purpose, in this tournament, was to make the reputa- ton of his antagonist kite, to take up his : social system into tho full view fthe con. munity, and by constant repetition to in-
 print a few of his leading axion,s on the
 memory of the multitude, that could in nO other way have been collected to hear
 The positions, which he thus fixed on | ,he memory of his hearers, with an unti-
 ring perseverance, were, that Christian T infant educated in Hindoostan would be a, Gentoo. in Turkey Mahomedan, in cannibal tribe cannibal, in a quaker fam.
 ly quaker and so ofthe rest-Ele would
 have nothing to do with speculation, and
 would take nothing but tacts. There were
 no facts, on which to affirm, or deny,
 touching the being of a God, the origin of
 the material universe, or man. We knew a few facts, and might form probable con-. jectures about others. He believed some , historical statements, when they ran not } counter to the twelve laws but held all history ofa contrary character wonderful.
 ly cheap. 1t may be, therefore, imagined, | how he disposed of the external and inter- , nal evidences, the miracles and prophe- eies of our religion. His twelve laws con. stituted grand bosom, with which all re- ligions, of all ages and climes, were alike to be brushed away, like chaif before the wind.' He described the biped breed, un. der present circumstances, as being nniser-
 able stock, He had never soen.' he said,
 a rational face in his life.' Their origin
 seemed to him an i'll managed, half dozing
 'circumstance' of the legal prostitution, ,cal- led marriage. That matter was now bet>
 tor understood, as it related to tho great
 improvement of the breed of quadrupeds,
 which, he hinted, might be carried to an in-
 intely higher and more worthy scale of
 melioration, when applied to the breed of bipeds.-The energy of mutual liking,
 and of constantly accomplishing powe. of mind, will and muscle, promised illimitable advantages to the generations oftbe fngursG As it was now, it was a joke, and rank per- jury, to swear either in prose or rhyme, on the knees, or howsoever 'stirring the stumps in doleful dumps,' that the parties
 would love each other, tiH death tkem do part seeing it was not improbable from
 the analogy ofno small number of similar
 eases, that they would prove very tabby
 cats, soon after tho lapse of the honey
 moon. Christian society was one web of life, warp and wool, dissimulation, quarrel,
 and bloodshed. All the great drama ofde-
 ceptive acting, all the malevoleuce. pover- L.. ~c L.. .a