Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-05-29
Our Gable.
Spiritual Telegraph: Edited by s. B.

UWC NdUlR.
Spiritual Telegraph: Edited by S. B
BR1rrA1N, and published weekly in New York
by CHAs. PARTRIDGE, at 81 so per annum.
Reader, do you not desire to have some intelli
gence of the passing events and affairs of the spi
| rit world? True, indeed, it is difficult to keep W
| with the news that comes nowadays with hight
ming speed, from the various quarters of the earth
| and he who undertakes to read one-half, OF ever
| one-tenth of what the newspapers contain, vii
have an endless, to say nothing of its being an un'
profitable, job. But how interesting must be the
! intelligence from the world of spirits! Who car
! refrain from the desire of knowing how they live
| and act, and converse? Who would not like te
have a despatch, occasionally al least, from a de-
ceased mother, father, brother, sister or friend p
| Well, a Telegraph between this and the othel
| world has been established, and over its wires
| communications are forwarded to all who have
| the necessary faith to receive them. We do moi
| say that its poles are made of moonshine, nor its
wires of fancy long drawn out, nor its messages
are the utterances of delusion and folly. Oh, no
all we do say is, the resemblance is very striking,
in the view we take of it.
But if you would know what the advocates OF
these spiritual manifestations" have to say in
their favor, and would become informed about
these "rappings' that our Northern folks are re-
ceiving so abundantly, the Spiritual Telegraph will
inform them.
We have often wondered, in our simplicity, why
these r~appings and spiritual manifestations should
be so much confined north of Mason & Dixon's
Line. We supposed that the mystery could be
solved only on the supposition that the aforesaid
folks were far more fond of hnmbug, and loved to
be duped much more than the inhabitants of these
Southern parts. But a elairvoyant of Milwauki
has come to our aid. He explains lin the Spiritual
Teegraph) in SO clear and convincing a manner
the reasons swhy spiritual manifestations are
made in the United States in preference to any
other part of the world, and in the Northern r-
Their than in 1.-THE Southern States" that We cannot
withhold the important information. Here is the
essence of his delectable theory in this respect:
"There is more mental development, more in
telligence, more independence of thought, and
more unrestrained energy among the poor and mid
ding classes of North America than in any other
part of the world. Their spiritual nature is more
developed. Providence has prepared this country
for these Developments. But the Southern peo-
pie are more impossible than the Northern, and
we should naturally suppose that they would be
chosen as mediums rather than the less impressi-
BILE Northerners. Why is it not SO? Because the
lower classes at the South are more degraded and
ignorant, less Intellectually and spiritually devel-
oped. The few only are educated the mass of
common people, laborers, are degraded a~ndrgno-
rant, and therefore not appropriate mediums for
such revealmentsW
Now, there's philosophy for you-and the truth
of history with a vengeance! But why don't the
spirits reveal themselves to some of "few" CD
educated oness Alas, what poor, degraded crea-
lures we Southerners are, that the pure and glori-
GUS spirits of Huubuggey won't visit us! Some
folks in this world of ours are the mere creatures
of their fancies.
London Quarterly Review, for A.
pra, 1852. Republished by LEONARD SCOTT &
Co., New York.
Contens.-Sir Roger de Coverley; Walpole's
Ireland, 1851; Diary of General Patrick Gordon:
Recent Epics; Progress of Comparative Anatomy:
Bohemian Embassy to England, Spain, &C., in
l466; The Cannon, Musket and Rifle; California
versus Free Trade; First Ten Years of the Reign |
Of George Ill; Lamartine on the Hundred DAYS: !
The Old and New Ministries.
We have not been able to give this number a |
examination, but from dipping into it |
and there, we are inclined to think it in no
wise behind the average of this able Quarterly.