Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-02-28
From the New York Tribune,
Spirit Rappings.
BY wx. GLAND BOURNE.
A0er the manner Of "7nc Karen" {"


There's a sweet and gentle flowing from loved
and lovely shore;
Yet our life is but dial where the hand Of
stern denial
Keeps us in the path of trial, bidding us wait
overmorc,
While the land of Hopes ideal, distant, distant,
cvormorc,
Bids the spirit onward soar.
have often sat and wondered whether spirits
ever blundercd
From the world beyond this mundane, as they
say they did of yore;
And I've often qucried whether they would
como and talk together
With those that walk in leather, who their
presence might implore--
Whether they could como and bring them from
the yet untrodden shore,
News of wonders yet in store.
While rendered on the matter, thinking
whether in these latter
Days of tclcgraphs and clattcr, they would see
us any more:
Taking up the daily papers, there l read of
sundry capcrs
OF the tables, chairs, and tapcrs, moving on
the chamber floor,
And the rupping and the tapping, growing lou
der than before,
On the window or the door.
Soon they found, somehow or other, how to
talk to ono another,
As man would ask his brother what the mes
sage that he bore;
And they answered by knocking, which
would set the things a rocking,
And would bring tho folks a-aocking, hocking
to the chamber door,
While they stood and silent waited pecping
through the chamber door,
While they wondered more and more.
Then in village, town and city, (some declared
it was pity
That believers in the spirits should the mystic
rcs so outpour.)
It'll! the wonder was increasing, and there
seemed to be no ceasing,
i'll the wheels should get n grcasing, of this
rusty world of yore;
While the mediums-Fish-y, Fox-y-on our
gross material shore,
Rattlcd at the chamber door.
hey have rappers wide awake, oh with the
spirits down to Saco,
Where the people drank the spirits in the
gloomy days of yorc,
nd the rappinGs, growing louder, make me
feel ? good deal proudcr
# the State where folks can chowder without ,
spirits from the store,
md where people free and happy, from the
mountain to the shore,
Fear the spirits ncvcrmore.
here the sheriff docs the rOpping, and the
spirits hear the tapping,
And they trcmble in their lodgings in the cor
ncr of the store;
And the noise of axe or hammer, with the
peoples shouts and clamor,
Make the spirits start and stammcr, for they
know their days are o'er,
And they blush, as they had ought to, but
their bloody race is o'er,
Making Maniacs neyermorc
So, with pushing, showing, rolling, and their
course with care controlling.
Forth the sheriff brings the spirits far without
the haunted store;
And he says, 81 rather rcckon-'ts guess I'll
stake my neck on
That such spirits could beckon from a place
below the floor;
And the valiant blow he gives them, lets the =
spirits oil outpour,
Cursing mortals nevermore
Oh !! love this kind of rapping, and the well
come friend whose tapping
Tells that Mercy, like an angel, stands to guard
the poor-house door;
And the brotherhood that ever, by holy, pure
cndeavor
Seeks our fallen ones to sever from the mon
ster-vice of yore,
While the father, mother, children, see the
gloomy poor-house door, |
vi lhc PRISON never, neVermoro
Nakcn every son and brother shoulders
braccd to one another!
Keep this glorious bond of union round your
hearth-stones evcrmorel
'eacc shall smile and sweetly bless you, and
the future shall caress you,
\nd the children's love address you, from their
childhood's golden shore,
While the thousands, in the fullness of their
blessings, rise and pour
Songs of gadness evcrmore
Neo York, January ~, 1852.
~ The largest rope'making establishment
! the world is at Charlcstown, Massachusetts,
here is made all the rigging for the ships of
10 United States. The establishment belongs
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