Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-11-25

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F. E The Stratford Mysteries. IS
The Rev. Mr.. PHELps, of Stratrord
Conn, furnishes The Boston Transcriip
with the following reply to- certain staie
menls denying or questioning the truth O
his Mr.. PHELPs's) allegations relative t
THE ''spiritual visitations.;' at his domicil
Mrs PHELrs, ahe Transcript says, is
worthy, intelligent, and upright man: g,
Ieys = saaa STRATkcRD, Nov. g, 1850.
/ My DEAR SIR:-A copy Of your paper.
continuing nm article on the recent strange
events at my house, came to hand yesler
day. Your letter did not reach me till TO
day. -.
7 4 have not hitherto noticed any anony.
NOUS publications on this painful subject;
nor have published anything except over
my own name. In regard to your inqai.
Fries, ! can assure you, that, The whole af.
fair still remains profound mystery. The
troubles at my house continuation almost
seven months. During that time, events,
which cannot be accounted for, occurred
to the number Of from two thousand to
three thousand. Many of them, to be
sure, were of such nature, that they
might have been done by human agency.
But, in multitude Of instances, they have
taken place in a way, which rendered all
trick or colusion utterly impossible. |
have myselfseen articles moved from one
place to another; rot, MS your correspond
en-. says, '..found them moved" ss,sre
have seen things in motion more than
II thousand times, aud in most cases, when
no visible power existed, by which the mo.
ton could have been produced. can pro.
duce scores Of persons, whose char c for
intelligence, piety, and competence 10
Judge in this matter, no one who knows
them will question, who will make solemn
oath, that they have witnessed the same
things. As to the reality Of the facts, they
can be proved by testimony a hundred
Hold greater than is ordinarily required in
our courts ofjuslice in cases Of life and
death. - 7 Eae ,EstA 7-.t ~
Ii is true, as your correspondent SAYS,
that many persons in Strulfo-d have never
visited my house at oil; and such are gen.
erally the persons who can tell all abou,
1T. There are Others, who have been and
who have staid an hour or two, and have
seen nothing, and have gone away, and
sagely concluded that nothing had been,. or
was to be seen. Others have seen some
things, and heard some sounds; but we're
so situated as not to be absolutely certain,
that those sights and sounds might mol
! have been produced by some visible agen
cyl and these have gone away under the
impression, that some persons about the
house might have been the cause. And
when this statement has been repeated fol
the third or fourth time, like the story OF
''the threeblac crows" it gets wrough,
in 10 positive assertion, that some one ol
the family was seen to do il! H ..s. s..
But there are ethers-ari persons OF
the first intelligence and responsibility
who have spent days and nights III the
house, and who have seen and heard for
themselves, not once or twice only, bul
scores of times, and have attained such en-.
tire certainty as 10 be ready TO make oath
to the fact; and who will testify that the
circumstances were such, that no member
Of the family, nor any other person could
have produced the phenomena il he had
tried. " ~
AT the time these troubles commenced
my family consisted ofmy wife, two daugh'
ters, one sixteen, and the other six years
Of age, and two sons, one eleven and the
other three, and one domestic. The SMALL
est child did, by accident, somewhere about
that time, break pane Of glass and the
elder boy did once it is said, throw q poker
on the floor. .,-.....,. ,..s... .....s. "a e-...
But no one ever intimated or dremt OF
there being anything mysterious in those
things. There have been broken from
my windows seventy ons panes Of glass;
more than thirty Of which | have seen
brake with my own eyes. have seen
objects, such rs brushes, tumblers, candle
sticks, snuffers, etc., which, but few mo.
ments before / knew to be nt rest. fly n
gainst the glass, and dash it to pieces
when it was utterly impossible, from the
direction in which they moved, that any
visible power should have caused their mo
ton. lies. 5e5rgF .zs-5 81, ls.<f i.s
rFAn editor out west thus acknowledg
es the receipt Of an heir. Guess it mus
be the FIRST Of The kind. No doub! his sub
scribers toe the mark, otherwise, his li,tl,
responsibility would not be so welcomed:
am this day multiplied by two-I am
duplicate. am number one of an indefi
nile series, and there is my continuation
And you observe, i. is not a block, nor
block k.head, nor painting, nor bust, no
fragment of any thing, however beauti
ful, but combination of all the arts, nm
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