Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 19, Number 9, Vincennes, Knox County, 5 April 1828 — Page 4

PO imc A L ASYLUM There have been volumes filled upon the subject of Love t men and women have exhausted the powers of their pens and reason upon it ; and some have drowned themselves on account ot this passion ; we have had various kinds of love, but never heatd of the particular kind expressed below, although we steadfastly believe we feel it now. Berwick Gaz. From the Warren, Rhode Island Star. Till: PRINTER'S LOYK. We love to sec the blooming rose In all its beauty drest ; We love to hear our friends disclose The emotions of the breast. We love to see a ship arrive Well laden, to our shore ; We love to see our neighbors thrive, And love to bless the poor. We love to see domestic life With never ceasing joys ; We love to see a youthful wife Not pleased with trilling toys. We love all these vet far above Above all that was ever said ; We love, what even PRINTER Invcs To haveSUiSSClUP HONS paid. From the Western Quarterly Review. New views of society ; or Essays pontile formation of the human char ccfer. ?yc Farions addresses delivered by Mr. Given , dedicated to theses who have no private, ends to accomplish and xvho are honestly in search of truth, ike. By Ron cut Owen pp. 115 8vo. There is little to invite critical re tnak in these pamphlets, as regard their style and reasoning. They aie the productions of a mind of consid erable vigour and variety of powers, somewhat diffuse and rambling in the exercise of them. The p culiar dog mas of the sect, of which Mr. Owen is the founder.occur with a frequency of repetition to excite weariness in any one, but a hearty catechumen When you have read one of his ad di esses, or the first ten pages of his pamphlet, you do not discover any thing more to learn about the system. The only subsequent interest, that appertains to it with us, is in learning the historical details of the manner, in which tiie influence of his system developed itself in the societies which he formed. It is not therefore, with a view to discussing the manner of Mr. Owen's wiitings, that we have commenced this article, but to give from snrh m.ilrri:il; n tvr nnc:cc r,

k very brief historical sketch of his

principles, and the issue of the expen ment of their influence upon the Uv ing subject, as physicians say, at New Harmon v The leading features of the svstem as we undet stand it. arc presented in a very condensed form in he following propositions. 1. Men, in the reception of all their principles, opinions and habits, are simply passive. These are formed by circumstances over which they have no control. Hence, men are the prope subjects neither of praise, or biao:e for their habits, and moral conduct. 2. All the bad passions and im mor 1 conduct of men. in the present order of society, result from the indi vidua! system, or the system of in dividual property, & the distinctions, avarice, ambition, pride envy, and jealousy, that grow out of it. 3 As all. that is bad in man, results in his being placed in circumstances unfavorable to virtue, all, that is

necessary to make him vittuous and

V good, is to place him in circumstances

ui an uppoMic icuuency. 4 This is done in the social system Under the influence of this system, men are surrounded by every circumstance favorable to virtue In this way they will certainly grow up vir tuus.as they did vicious in the other. 5. Toe social system includes immunity of property and equality of rights It disclaims all restraints of religion, marriage, or any other tie, but what is purely voluntary. Io lecturing upon the effects of 'his system, the founder enlarges upon its manifold blessings. Men will be placed in such circumstances, that

they cannot but become good, anrJi juvenile ardor or a missionary, and

free from all gutle & evil Property

Will accumulate lapidly and lar be yond the wants ofthe community By the community of property, there will be no such evils as want avarice, cheating, injustice, or other v iolations of moral obligation. Children will Ineducated rightly. Widows and orphans will be secure in the protection of the community. All the social feelings of our nature will be purified, and will find a perfect indulgence and gratification. These are but a few of its tendencies to new mould, and regulate society. Some of the means that lead to such a desirable Lonsummation, are the adoption of a right method of education for childicn, They are taught in community, and. like the Spartan children, ore not under the weak and partial control of their par ents. The Pestalozzi mode of in struction is adopted. Instead of being taught theories & doctrines, they arc taught facts. .Modes of instruction from tangible and visible objects are pursued.

Mr. Robert O wen, the founder of

apparently ready to devote Ids labors,

his lortune and himself for the purpose of introducing a 'system, which was to bring about a kind of political millennium. At Washington he spoke with a Confidence of the bearing of his system, as though all the means of government weie weak and inellicient. to impait happiness, in compaiison with the benefits of it. when it should once be brought to operate upon the people. At Philadelphia he prophesied with a reli ance, that savored so entirely of honest conviction, that it seems to have excited no ill feelings, thai the-cfiects of the social system, as it was designated would depopulate, that square, right angled and industrious city of brick houses. Still setting his face towards the west, and borne along with the tide of emigration, that was moving in that diiec.tion, to find the very laud of promise that he was to create, he arnved at Cineinalidusconfidenee gathering strength, as he advanced inwards the intended theatie of his operations. The induttiious

j mechanics ol this thriving place, and

Ibis system, is understood to be a landlords, whose income was manufacturer of cottons, whose prin- noin luc ,cnt "Chouses, heard with cipal establishment is at New Lan j as much coolness, as could be expect ark, on the Clyde in Scotland. He e(' tue same confident predictions.

marrieu amiss liale, who brought ! l,,l,L mu incipient nricic minding? him a large fortune, and he is reputed wuhl be useless, & the finished ones

soon untenanted, and that he would with less sensible chaim of incantat ion, than Orpheus. v ithour. fiddle or lyre, empty the inhabitants of this growing place on the banks of the Wabash To that river in due time here paited Mr Kapp.a kind of patriarch oftheGciman sect known here by the name of Harmonists, had moved to the VW.haih, some years before, horn Braver creek on tile upper wat ers of the Ohio carrying with him a considerable community of European Germans, se en or ei"ht hundred

jin number, to the place called New

to be very opulent, employing jn this

single establishment twelve hundred hands. He has made himself conspicuous some years since, by introducing into this manufactory new regulations, of a character somewhat inalagous to the arrangements of the social system. The children were instructed in a new way. New incitements to sobriety and industry w ere introduced, and the New Lan ark establishment became so contpi cuous for its industry, sobriety and comfort, as to excite general rennrk through the t)Mh Hands. His plans in particular for employing the

poor.and reducing the burden of their ' iiarmony.

mamtatnanee had excited so much notice, as to become a subject of in-

vestigation belorc the Ilitish parliament. Having become a theme of confer salion in every pai t of Europe, and haing acquired a notoriety, which, perhaps, he did not oiiginally con template, about the year 1810 he be gan publicly to broach a system of which he was the founder and (he apostle. He travelled over Britain & Ireland, ami was every where received with the distinction, which an opulent gentleman, the promulgator of a new system, which he confidently asserted, was to ehangethc whole face of society, might claim to receive He delivered addresses, explaining & inculcating his system, in the public places of the cities, which were thronged with the titled the intelligent and

distinguished of both sexes He

here invited the free discussion of his propounded principles Thev were more than once treated very roinddv

in these public debates by advocates

ol the old system, with minds obvi

ously more diciplincd, than his own

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ui uace is situated on the cas

ban!; of the Wabash sixty miles by water above its entrance into the Ohio, sixty miles below Vincennes on the Wabash, and sixteen miles from the nearest point of the Ohio. Here they settled on a wide, rich and heavily limbered plateau, or second bottom, on a beautiful site, not unlike that of Cincinnati. It is high, tolerably healthy, with a fertile soil, in the vicinity of small and rich prairies, and on the whole a delightful and well chosen position The society over which Happ presided, had become rich in industry, frugality. & in habits of maki.'g every thing that they needed within themselves; in economy, and in that strict regard to the quality of the articles which they sold, which had gained them a reputation for honesty, like that of the Shakers His was a kind of intermediate estab lishment between that of the Shakers and the Moi avians. It agreed with both in the community of" property, and this was almost the only feature

which it bore in common with the

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Ileahvavs bo.ctlu-s attacks u'lih' ' . V , . rney were

Srcat moderalion a..i -oo.l rmw ! " uccrsslul. ,olh on ilispl.yi,,R the undoubted faith of an" j V t , i i if i on citing, tiie wuderncs into a apostle, the moderation and se f com-i u...,.;!-,,! & i . I,u.tlllL a ' i t , , , , , I heautdul and productive warden in a maud of a philosopher, and the zca shnrf ,, tU " idluSn m.a unshrinking purpose ofa mart vr V, operations in T,K()1 1 f 4t .IK ' culture manulactures.and all the In lb21 he came to the Lnited departments of indu.try were manaS atcs. as thinking, that a country ed uitll )ei fcct Their fieltTs with more hberty than England j uei, allregular.Lthematl a Without re h'ious estnblmhmiMOc !,, !. ... , , o

f , . j. , , ai l Wn angieti, as sciuaie & compass more free Irom prepidices. would be COu!d make them1 Z 1

nearer the tuoula rasa, which would constitute the best theatte. for testing the practicability of his principles in actual experiment. It was a circumstance sufficient to create interest here, to see a man of independent fortune respectable appearance & considerable talents from the old world among us witji all the

could make them. Their houses

were neat and commodious. Their vineyardsand gardens werebeauiiful. They had even a fine botanic garden. Their centre or assembling house was a brick structure of collossal size, the body being, it is believed, one hundred and fifty feet square, with wings and appendages in proportion The society, from some cause, were

weary of the Wabash.and were looking back from their rich fields, with longing remembrances, to the place they had left. They had erected at Xew Harmony, from eighty to one hundred private houses, chiefly ol brick, and the whole village had a most delightful aspect to one emerging from the dark forests of the Wabash. The society of the Harmonifcs, & that contemplated by Mr. Owen, were the two extremes of what he calls the social system They regulated every moement to bear upon their object by the complete despotism of a religious regime, which acted at once upon the physical, moral and intellectual nature, rendciin" the

j laboring force as subservient to the

will of their leader, as all the compli-. rated movements of a manufactory is to the main wheel. The other system proposed, that its members should be so good, and so wise, as to need no other re-ulation, than that of circum.staucis. These two extremes met on the ground of mutual interest, and Mr Owen in 182.3 purchased the

whole Itap; establishment including twenty eight thousand acres of land at the pi ice of one hundred and ninety thousand dollars ( 'Jo be Continued.) A little man asking how it happened that many beautiful ladies toi-k up wi;h but indifferent hu ba ids. after many fine olfeis ? was thus aptly answered by a mountain maiden. A young friend of hers, requested her to go into a delightful cam-brake and there get him the handsomest reed ; she must get it in once going through without turning. She went and coming out, brought him quite a mean reed. When he asked, il that was the handsomest one she saw ? Oh no' replied she I saw many finer as I went along, but I kept on in hopes of a much better, until I had gotten nearly through, and then was obliged to select the best that was left "

I IlAVK till tun t lit' f r

termination of mnoiing fA from this state in the

spring, and will !:;,. -s--$

me heal ari! 1i.i.csal PnopERTr I possess in this p ate a' ; iaio sa,y. MO TAD US. Vincennes, January 25, 182a 52-tl N.D. Suc:h articles ?s remain lupoid, on Saturday the 5th dot oJiril v.cxt, u!i bs 'fioied at PUBLIC k j.n tK premiscs, at 10 0VI01 k of fhr,t ,i., t..m n

sums under five dollars, a credit of il tec nOnthS Will bo rrivCIi : tar snmc -K,,.

dollars, rnd cs than fifteen, a credit of six

mumnb; u wv sums aboe fiticen dollars, a cttdit ol nine months. 'I he puichascr in every ci.se, fcivini; note, with appioved securil- , M. TABUS. March 28, 18?8. DiviMon of ieal Kstate. Jonathan Mttztr, John Mctzer, Emanuel (i.imcs, (korgc Homer, Ldwatd R. nsiord, Uicharcl '1 ucker, William H.yJohn llarij-, Samuel liainsford. David Mctzgcr, Marjjaict Mctz-ei, and their guardians, h ijai heirs and i eprtstnlaiivcs ol Peter Mrtzifcr, deceased, rLEASE TO lASfc NOTICE, . THAT I shall make app.ication to the Circuit court of the county ol Sullivan, on the fust &jy of the April tttm, frr Commisiiontrs to be appointed, to convey to me, forty acies of land lying on tho south side of the iouUi cast quaiter ol section No. thirty-three, in township No. nine, north, of iangc No. ten, west, agreeably to a bond I hold given by said Peter Mctzger, deceased, in his life time, and agreeably to tho statute in such cases made and provided HtZEKIAH P1GGS. Mrch 15, 1S28. 7rtt lWncE. " BROOK HOWEL, John Deen, Alexander Hodman, Thomas Riggs. Peter Higgs, JohnHiggs, Dcnjamin Higgs, Green, berry Riggs, legal heirs and representatives

v.umc ueccasca,are hereby noti

uuu luamuu ai my nouse on the 28i h ol this month, in order for a settlement with the ad

ministrator on said estate. HEZEKIAH HIGGS, legal Jdmstr. to the estate of Char lew Riqg deed. SUSAN HIGGS, .Idmstrx. March 15, 1828. 73t LNDEXTUUES fo Appicotkcs for sale at this ofliw.

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