Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-09-13
TUESDAY, SEFT. To- f"'"'
Tie three FditOIS

..-,,,v's Compiler there vas Gard from one
10 !,,,es 10 the huptug, and an appropriate com
o. u" tho part of lis Editor. The CARR assigns 'ie
mel" citing up the humbug, and expresses theii
n involving US in the matter, ana ]us''y'ns
HE ,,ound, that "they desired TO nave ms eAenueu
o. 'e against what they believed 10 be CHAR
idHuf"'' a ;,n,osture" The Editor of the Compiler
A'aI'! thor hand, with that love of Truth which com
90 Wv hs respec, Of every ingenious man, repeats
,,;, humbur ''does not prove that there IS iih
iaa' '' - ,nesmerism ''-that he "would have beer
ss,,,.6ed. had some stronger test been introduced
~' 6 K such as those reported IN the case At WI
~ I'D with other tests of the kind, which, while
's,n,e no excessive torture, are irresistible te
'.' ,,,,l sense We had rather see mesmer'sH
u" no, 10 have existence, and while we coniehe
s, II and r." have not proved this, we Wish u
were in their power mr. a., ,,,br,
tscided future, far rs its object was concerne'
!, was TO real ties, OF mposture-and thus in'ef
,,,s Droclaln,ed The very moment alter us expo
'"s' he an intelligent physician and BY ourselves
failed in i,s purpose of convincing us. Tor sucl
L,mbnr IS no argument, aud the man " no THINKS s.
90 mneh deceived as he whose senses he has cheateo
ware rs firmly convinced as ever, not only oy I'M
o,,o.irents which we witnessed previously ana sno
s~crren,lv a: Cur own house. but by the phenomena
t rb were there exhibited on the yer same ni%hi
,,,bou, our knowledge or suspicion, by new mes
'n.,,.ee waom Mr. French had never seen, until tina
,ery night
The Editor Of the Wing again las to play his owl
.,. ~ the drama OF humhuggery. He Is the rea
noburrcr lie had been guilty Of a most egregou
n, Of iollv in publishing the Peasants correspond
soce-and he SEXES upon this hu,nbug 10 divert III
publc attention from the kidnapping plot. lie eve
.oooed 10 p-evaricate about the co,responcence-an
I'd cu!ousy tre to put it upon the ground, that II
,,ooft,r humbug-a hoax-and even got up
burbup Va for our article on mesmerism-when MI
pian,s letter is dated four days Jort our article wa
pub shed But what between the nesmeric hunput
and his sneaking prevarcation he has been riaoie
escape the consequences of his own folly, ana no" 'e
"a Justify one az the mos: atrocioGs plots when nav
ever been gotten up Thus, we nave oeHhea '"e pos
ions Of The Editors, ell round the House
The Owing will play the JesG. 20 the last j
r,s, peryeris our words and then attacks US we d.
no, pronounce as IL says yeslerday,l ali "ioos VINO
not believe the mesneric development contained IN tn
las, Erquirsr" We had not the slightest alluslon
tina: sort. We entertained such an opinion u"
what We did say, this We leave it 10 the re6
End arrogant '.ioois'' of Richmond to Islander other
nader ncknames." This the whole "head an
iror, Of cur oii,nding We intended it for those onl
who had eaii.d others nicknQmeS because they honesi
entertained such opinions. There is subject in th
world Oh which liberation of opinion becomes duty
90 much as on these strange and startling phenomena
IA, this vt do say o, once that he who has started tn
ldea rerrred 10 IN lie following sentence OF yester
Gays Star The repor; the street, that prevailed Oh
Saturday. that the experiments at MIR. Richie wer;
deception, we have reason to believe, is entirely with
out tuunda,.on and therefore should be contradced
once we saw ihaths who started this report Isl to Us
tie words OF the "Democraic Review, mot only III
NEST Ltsod Of focS bnt a!soMc most arrnn 81 liars
Never were experiments conducted, not only with NOR
honesty, but wl;h more caution. There was no, onl
no collision, bu, every possible taken TO prever