Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-08-23

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pect satisfactory to those who have at all studied
the matter, leaving out the claim of spiritual com
munication. So far as any agency of the fe-
males upon whom these demonstrations attend,
in producing these sounds, is concerned, we can
not do better perhaps than to introduce the fol-
lowing from the N. Y. Tribune:
ssThe Mysterious Rappingsn
Mrs. Fox and her three daughters left our CT
ty on Friday on their return to Rochester. after
a stay here of some weeks, during which they
have freely subjected the mysterious Influence
by which they seem to be accompanied to every
reasonable test and to the keen and critical scru-
tiny of the hundreds who have chosen to visit
them or whom they have been invited to visit
The rooms which they occupied at the hotel have
been repeatedly searched and scrutnzed; they
| have been taken without an hours notice into
houses they had never before entered; they have
been all unconscously placed on glass surface
concealed under the carpet, in order to interrupt
electric vibrations; they have been disrobed BY
Committee Ladies appointed without notice,
and insisting that neither OF them should leave
the room until the investigation had been made
&c. &C., yet we believe no one to this moment
pretends that he has detected either of them in
producing or causing the 'Rappings, nor do we
| think any of their contemners has invented
plausible theory to account for the production of
I these sounds, nor the singular intelligence which
Certainly at times) has seemed to be manifested
through them.
Some ten or twelve days since, they gave up
their rooms at the hotel, and devotedthe remain-
der OF their sojourn here to visiting several FAM
| lilies to which they had been invited by persons
interested in the subject, and subjected the sim
| r,,lar inf ~ a clo nd
ton than could be given to Il at hotel and be-
fore casual companies of strangers, drawn to-
gether by vague curiosity, more rational inter-
est, or predetermined and invincible hostility
Our own dwelling was among those they thus
visited, not merely submitting to but courting
the fullest and keenest inquiry with regard to the
alleged manifestations from the spirit-world by
which they were attended. We devoted what
time we could spare from our duties out of three
days to this subject, and it would be the basest
cowardice not to say that we are convinced be-
yond doubt of their perfect integrity and good
faith in the premises. Whatever may be the or
gin or the cause of the 'Rappings, the ladies' in
whose presence they occur do not make them.-
We tested this thoroughly and to our entire salts
faction.-N. Y. Tribune.
This was not necessary to convince us, for we
previously had the testimony of all the sense and
senses we possess Of its truth. What is the ex-
PLANTATION? We claim nothing as absolutely GER
tain with reference to it, but we do claim in vir-
tue of The facts, that the hypothesis of commu-
ncation from the spirits out of the body to those
in the body, is the only probable and rational ex.
PLANTATION of the mystery.
We expect the popular nose to curl at this
point, and the popular mind to lament the credu-
lily of some folks, but we humby submit that
those who can believe any other explanation
with reference to it, are the most credulous and
easily humbugged of mortals. We formed our
opinion only after close investigation and refec-
ton, and having formed it, we have no hesitation
in expressing it, even should the popular nose
curl upside down in ridicule. If we should ask
the self-satisfcd mortal, who has the one expla-
nation" Humbug" the phenomena which
are continually presenting themselves in the
world of mind and matter, for some more definite
reason against our COZ ;lusion, it would come in
about this wise: at never has been, therefore il
never can bel never knew of any thing of the
kind, therefore there can be nothing of the kind
Il have been educated to believe differently
therefore it cannot be true" This is about what
we should get, and in our way of thinking il
would be a very stupid piece of assumption.
Here is an individual who can by no possibility
understand the mystery of his own being grave
ly contcnding that what he don't know can by
no possibility exist He certainly ought to doubt
his own existence. Just as if that supreme pow.
er who made for his own purpose the earth and
we who inhabit il, can do nothing beyond the
wisdom possessed by his creatures. From the
earliest dawnings of human cognizance new and
consoling truths have been flowing from the di.
vine essence to bless the earth and all things
thereon, and the intellect Of man would seem to
have been given him, for the purpose of scrutini-
| zing all claimed new deyelepments. to reject OF