The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-06-16
proud Vandals shall place hand upon

proud Vandals shall place hand upon
them.
Potosinos! these arc the words of your
Clergy, and we shall not fail to inculcatc,
IN the villages and towns, and from the pull
pits of the capital, these grand sentiments.
In your humble hands is the religion which
your fathers have left you, the country
which Heaven has awarded you, the no.
nor of your daughters and your wives, the
lives of your tender infants, and your whole
future fate. 1t depends on heroic sacri-
flee. Make it
Two fatcs are left open for you To be
vile slaves, or Independent Catholics.
Choose. If the former, bend the knee to
the invader: if the latter, prepare for the
combat
Comprehend it-thcse are the last mo-
mcnts. If by Incidence you incur an un-
happy fate, if your religion must fly to a
more hardy soil, disgrace and igr my will
fall upon you. TO your Priesthood will re-
main the satisfaction of having exposed to
you the danger, and indicated the means
most chcctual and best dap,ed to our cir
cumstances. And we con,re YOU not to
listen to our words without emotion, assured
that you meet in us tender parent who
consoles and succors your families, hu.
i:1ane friend who annonts your wounds, a
Christian Priest who dispencscs to you the
last consultations of religion. who guards
and remembers your ashes, a companion
that does not abandon you in the day of
battle, and who now even is willing to bear
his breast in defence of the religion of Jesus
Christ and of the most beloved Republic of
Mexico.
(Signed) MANUEL DIEz
FIR. MANUEL NAvARRETE.
PRIMO FgLICIANo CASTRO.
FIR. !GNACIo SAMPAYo.
FIR. BIAS ENcIso.
PR. JOSE DE SAN ALBERTO.
DR.. FIR. FELIX Rosa ANGEL.
San Luis Potosi, April 2sth, ls47.
"REMINISCENCES OF THE REsUsCITATED
1t has been asserted by several very hon
est, but probably incompetent persons, that
they have experienced consciousness of
being out Of the body. The case of Cardan
and Won Helmont have been already men,
toned; but perhaps the clearest and most
positive testimony to the fact is that given
by DR., Adam Clarke, the learned Wesley
an, who when relating his recovery from
drowning, stated to DR.. Letisom that during
the period of his apparent unconciousness.
he felt a new kind Of life. These are his
words. "AIl my views and ideas seemed
instantly and entirely changed, and l had
sensations Of the most perfect felicity that is
possible, independently Of rapture, for the
human mind to feel. l had no pain from
the time was submerged; kind of great
color became visible to me; multitude of
objects were seen, and not one of which
however, bore the lie st analogy to any
thing had ever beheld before" When
preaching in aid of the Human Society at
the City road Chapel, in London, he said,
'1was submerged a sufficiently long time, ac-
according to my apprehension and the know
ledge now have Of physiology, for me to have
been SO completely dead as never more to exist
in this world, had it not been for that Pro-
vidence which as it were, once more breath
ed into me the breath oflife" Mr. Green,
in his dairy, mentions person who had been
hung, and cut down on reprieve, who be-
ing asked what was his sensations, stated
that the preparations were dreadful
beyond EXPRESSION, but that, on being drop
ped, he instantly found hims elf amidst fields
and rivers ofblood, which gradually acquir-
ed greenish tinge. Imagining that, he
could reach certain spot, he should be
easy, he seemed to himself to struggle for
chilly to attain it, and then he felt no more.
Here we fnd green color again mention
ed as the last expression on the mind that
perhaps may be explained on the principle
mentioned in the chapter on light. The
frs: effect of strangulation is a re-tardatlon
of blood, which causes red color to appear
before the eye: but green always succeeds
the red, unless the eye be directed to some
other color. 1t is interesting to observe
how, in the midst of the most violent strug-
gle to which human being can be sub
jected, the soul associates itself from the
past and the PRESENT, and interprets impress