Litchfield enquirer., 1829-06-04

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 Fame had already blown her clarion, and our city was thronged with visitants, from two or three hundred miles distance: Nor was it an incurious spirit that brought them to hear a question at length put to rest, which had been in controversy for eighteen hundred years and on which i books enough had been written to sink ! seven,y-iour. At a called meeting, all decorous, and proper arrangements were made. A conl- mittee was appointed to provide an arena for tho gladiatorship. After being re- fused tho first Presbyterian church, they finally obtained the Methodist stone chapel. The champions and the said committee enacted the rulcsand cour,esies of the combat, win knightly and chivalric pre- cision. 1t was ordained, that they should fight 1t out. in western phrase, turn o. bout thirty minutes each, until one or the other should cry quarter. Under correc- ton we venture to suggest that in similar cases hereafter, victory ought to be ad- judged to tho party that shall receive the enemy's fire, during his own silence, with VsG stVSt uuWtuSbuS SVUuSCuuuSOA 0uu tAC most exemplary patience.
 Travelling back to the ages of philoso- phy, and remembering the seven wise masters and the sages of Greece, the committee and disputants selected seven J moderators, as an intellectual court of Oyer and termineb who were conspicuously mounted on carpeted stage, and in a pu- Ter air. Their business was not only to judge, but to preserve fair play, and inter- diet all poisoned weapons, and all other trespass of the prescribed rules of honor- orable combat. j
 April IS, 1929, the church and the o. pen area leading to it was perfect wedge, or, ,as he of the Pandect had it, squeeze All ages, sexes, and conditions were thore. Even our fair spinsters. with their shining morning faces, were waiting to catch a mouthf6l of metaphysics, with which to swoop the intellects of their swains at the first convenient period after honcy ymoon. At nine in the morning, fine April sun gave us the light of his countenance. The combat unparalleled in the annals of dispu- tation, was opened. On the countenance of the immonse crowd sat cheerful and self-relying brightness of keen discrimina- ton, which announced to the most careless 'I adopts in physiogponsy, that they had t 6sOss s.a Aa akair assk not Oniy . due esti. I mate of their ability to weigh the great points to be discussed, in unerring intel- lectual scales, of Q nicoty to turn with the weight of an additional hair, bat that they felt the responsibility of their case and were infexiblo in purpose to settle these long agitated questions, in justice and judgment, that they might henceforth. sleep for ever. Imagine the emanating brightness which beamed from the phre- nological domain of the aforesaid seven sages, who were purposely appointed to hear and determine, touching these mo- mentous questions. ''9-'71 .'~
 Thcn we gazed at the two athlete and imagined the munitions of logomachy, laid away in mysterious and awful order and power in the narrow precincts of two sma,, heads.' We silently admired the infinite compressibility of that knowledge, which 70 power more energetic than thundereli li from all the cannon at Borodino.
 ] Every one has seen the face or the prin, | VI sssS ~SuGvVAOus 0UCsub COStBUpUiISOS LLlH Welsh philosopher, whose strange taste i. is, to wander over the world, bestowine vast sums in charity, and to obtain, in .re- turn, an ample harvest of yillification and abuse. He was dressed in Quaker plain. ness wearing bis customary, undauntr l., self-pessessed, good natured face, ,surmou n- cd as most people know with an intellect al rudder of almost .portentoas amplitu lie, that might well have been deemed an ac- quisition in pilgrimage to the promonto- " of noses. From each side ofthis pro m- inent index of mental power beamed such an ineessant eiflux of fcheerlulness, as might well shame, in comparison, ihe sour and trissiul yisage ofmany an heir of the hope of immortality. 4s
 The chivalrous champion of tho cove nant is citizen of Bethany, near Wheel ing, in Virginia gentlemen, we should think between thirty and forty with long face, rather small head, of sparkling, bright and cheerful countenaDce, and finely arched forehead; in the earnest vigor of youth and with the very first sprinkling of white on his crown. He wore an aspect, as ofone who had words both ready and inex- haustible, and as possessed of the excellent grace of perseverance,, 10 degree, that he would not retreat an inch in the way of concession, to escape she crack and pud- der of a dissolved world. His venerable, gray headed father, also clergyman, and 1sm~ ~.~..e-... A.-aas..- ss1 a.