Litchfield enquirer., 1833-03-28
H. Does that say so! How does that

pretendS TO De the word OF God.
H. No God No hell No devil Hur-
lay. May be wont have frolic. Why
| then body can git drunk, swear and fight,
and if he should kill fellow it will be no
great matter. But stop. How do they
know? don't like to be cheated.
r. Why they say its just superstitiouss
notion that people have. No body ever
saw God; aud people can't be expected
to believe contrary to the evidence of their
senses. ...
II. No, to be sure. But then John Da-
Wis says, the bible makes out that God made
the world. Ifthere ant no God, who did
make the world?
r. Make tile world indeed. How do you
suppose he'd 60 about to make the world :!
II. don't know nothing about it.
asked you to tell me how the world come
if God didn't make it.
r. Come it didn't come, it always was.
Fl. How do you know that?
r. Why, Reason teaches US so. If
there wern't something always, how could
any thing happen to be?
II. That's what don't know. And III
tell you another thing don't know. If
this world always was, without any maker
did it make itself?
r. Make itself? ha, ha, that's good
one. Why, don't you know that the earth
is dead matter 1t couldn't make itself nor
any thing else.
Fl. Well, so should judge, and if it
| couldn't make any thing because it ant
alive, / wonder how it could change so
much? The water runs trees grow, leaves
fall and put out agaih, fire burns up a heap
of truck, beasts and birds and fishes and
mankind too, lives and dies, and nobody
makes 'en,. can't understand that. They
didn't always be, l know.
r. That's only the fortuitous concur
renee Of circumstances.
II. The what?
r. Why, its-its-it just happens so.
II. Its queer sort of fixen, any how
I wonder if such things as this here rife
ever just happened so, without being made.
Where did you say that ere Free Enqui-
rer come from? .
/ r. From New-York.
/ II. Who did you say made it
1 r. didn't say who made it; Mr.. Owen
and Miss Wright, and Mr.. Jennings write
the pieces in it. q
Fl. Let's look, is that write hand?
r. No, this is printed.
II. How! is il printed and wrote too ,and
not wrote neither? you're droll fellow.
q r. must explain to you. The lad,
e and gentlemen spoke of write pieces ant
!; then get the printers to print them.
III. What is printing how is it done
r. They have the letters cut Httl.
pieces of lead (made hard somehow these
they call types and they pick them up let
ter by letter, and put them in order so as
to make words, and these are arranged in
to sentences and so on till they get all
these letters set up to make one side, then
they put them up in particular order on
fiat stone that is fixed in the printing
press. Then they black the types and lay
the paper ON and press down fiat board
on them, and so they make it look like this
side. Then they put up the same types in
different order to make different words,
and 60 through the same work TO print the
other side.
II. What do you call letter? Let me
f see.
r. These are large letters at the top
, That is the title. Those small things are
+ all letters.
II. What? Is that little thing letter :
r. Yes.
H. And do they pick 'em up one by one
, and fix 'em so as to make that whole paper
{ r. Yes.
H. Now, mister, want to ask you few
questions. Did you ever see New ork
I r. No. ! am western man.
II. Did you ever see that woman and
, them men you talk about
, r. Whoi Miss Wright and Mr.. Owen
and Mr.. Jennings? No.
t H. Did you see the folks take that paper
and print it
r. No, tell you.
II. How do yon know they did it then
! r. Can't 1 read lit says so here.
II. May be it lies. How do you know
! it don't let
r. How do know it don't lie : / know
|, it don't. Do you think I'm fools
4 II. If you amt, can you tell me what
ask youl It's plain question. How dc
you know there is such place as N. York
Why, the fellows crazy. How do
/ know there are such people as Miss Wright
and Mr.. Owen, and Mr.. Jennings, wheI
I've heard SO much about them, and seeI
their writings every week. Can't I be-
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