New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-07-24
BURR AGAINST SPIRITUAL kN0CkINGS
II Me Eiltors Of TIE Tr.1me

NV mission ot hunting the spirits Is
ended and now chapter from my SIX months
eXpenence, through nearly halt OF the states
of the Union may not be Improbable 10 the
readers OF The Tribune. Ii Is proper for me 10
state that my chef motive for continuing my IN
yestlgatlonS through 20 many States has been 10
Obtain materials for book on " Fanatics and ia
natlciSm IN America. and which nope to have
ready tor the press IN few months. FOR many
wears this country has been kept SImmerlng and
boiling with 4 ieyerSh excitement, which could
see plain enough was adverse TO all healthy pto
grCSS The onward tide Of thought has been
choked with hundred such weeds as Mormon
ism Miilerlsm. Davl>Ism and RaplSm, which
must all come down al length TO only mud
and slime. and so leave their stencil on what
Soeyer comes the onward way. | have en-
hraccd this opportunity TO 20 out and look at TINS
legion tribe Of Ism MOngerS. may Ice 10 make
book out of them and then 10 SIT pCaceably down
at home again, and wait patiently to see II tins
shallow time Of ispis will ever pass away. II Is
moruiylug enough tor me 20 be compelled 10 say
that took more hope and faith out with me than
/ have brought back again. An old king SAID,
=" said IN my haste all men are liars. Alas,
fear me that had he lived IN these rappng days,
he NIGH, have said It Al his leisure. Pardon me
my friends. for hen you come to read the PLAN,
unyamshGd reports OF numerous committees,
which were appointed bythe Rappers themselves
soon he before the public, you VIII have his
tory OF fraud and blasphemy which will pat your
own faith IN man 10 sorry trial | do by no
means say that have found all the advocates OF
Rapism dishonest On the contrary want 10
say that have found many OF them strictly,
qutuIiV honest, and as shOckIngly deluded rs
were ever the modest victims Of wItchcraft IN tho
DAYS of George Ill. ! have also seen many that
were claimed as mediums who were undOuOted-
Ia. m
mented with excitement, and exhibiting simply
the most eccentric features OF what has been
called mesmerlsm. Their whole bodies were
violently CONFUSED, their hands and arms witch
ing and living about as though they were pos
sesseG OF the devil, until al length they would
begin 10 speak and declare that 1t was ST John
or some other apostle, who was exercising them
IN this manner, as though he were trying 10 twist
their arms and legs from their bodies. The
whole phenomena is no more mysterious than
h1Sferia and an intelligent physician Is never IN
doubt about what TO DO TO bring them out OF 1t.
This KIND Of mediums IS now rapidly gaming
favor with the believers. and the Tapplng me-
GiuWs are beginning 10 be held IN less CONN
dence, because wherever ! have given my expo
stlon there are to be fonnd plenty OF people who
can produce the rdps Just as well As the me-
dlums
Among the rapping machines | nave never yet
found one where far Investigation has not
shown teyond a doubt that the rapS were pro-
ducod Ly a tick Every committee has 50 r..
ported in every investigation have conducted
IN my whole ixmonths experience among the
Rappers The last investigation was had IN
Scott where the spirits have broken up one
the town While | was IN Virginia, heard Of
the terrible dolngs OF the Spirits IN Scott,
and resolved on my way home 10 give them
pull. ! gave a public lecture IN the Congrega-
tonalst Church of the place, and requested the
audience 10 appoint Committee OF seven OF
their best men 20 witness and report upon my
Investigations OF the mediums there The Rap
pers q mean the believers) were very busy IN
the nomination OF the Committee, and boasted
that they had got Committee which would
give me hard time The whole report would
occupy more than a column Of the Tribune aud
will give only the conclusion OF 1t.
Having closed the investigation, 1t WAS unanl-
mously Resoltod That As the result OF ne hVesIst
ton Of the spiritual rappings with Mrs WOOL
weaver. a. medium, We are compeledto inier max
the prime pies Of the 80 called spiritual rdppnss ar,
an imposition upon me pHbhc. KesD.reo, lhil
the investigation onthe part Of Nr {. Chauncey Buzz
was conducted with great candor, proprety and de-
cOTum.'
This report was read at length TO one OF III.
largest audiences ever gathered IN church IN
the town of Scott, and was adopted by accLt'o.
tion Ny forthcoming book on " anailcs and
/
above has been my universal success IN my
whole course OF lecturing on this subject The
work OF exposure Is eiiectualy done And the
believers are Just welcome enough 70 hold On tor
a nllle season to the tan OF a serpent whose
heads bruised
have forborne 10 make any reply to Mr.
Capron's answer to Mrs Norman Culyef's depO.
sltlcn, because ! felt that II was unnecessary.
know that NAM friends N Western New-fork
l. ma -HIa nat F4
saws .n rclutatlOn Oh he disclosure has four
points. | That what Mrs e. says about the
Dutch eirl rapping under the floor when the
Committee held the mediums hands Is false be-
cause me investigation did not take place at the
house. . They mad never had a Dutch or any
other nIred or servant grl 10 their house. 3
There had been a family quarrel between the
Rochester girls and Mrs { 1. Mrs. G y 4 very
impre. saule biological su5 Get, and | might
therefore make her bslieus that she had been
shown how 20 DO all ihese tricks. On this last
rornt ! wish 20 ask, II / could lmpart to her
olnts the skill to produce the identical raps and
all the other tIcks OF the mediums, which Mrs.
{. recently did DO IN the presence OF a large
number OF the most distinguished gentlemen OF
Rochester But | prefer that Mrs G. should
answer Mr. Capron
Every particular stated IN my first deposition
&c strictly true. The utmost fren1ness existed De-
tween myself and the Fox girls up to tne tlfne ~hei
revealed 70 our own family the frauds when na1
detected. What Mr.. CaprOn says about diihcuit.es
e1Etng previously between Us u ialse III every
particular. What he says about my oeiY an I'M
preSsabe Mesmer Biological subject Is also lalse.
The Fox girls have had two Dutch glrls WORKING
n her kitchen az different tunes previous 70 the
lnyestgaton. The one who raped from the Gel.
Ter went by some such name az " Alpn' or Aiphe,'
tie other's rare was Clara The investigation IN
Which Fary :o!d ne TIE Dutch gIrl raped IL take