The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1853-09-02


found 10 be invariably correct. So in my
recent visit 10 the West, my Whereabouts
and my condition were tod to medium
in this city willie was travelling on The
railroad between Cleveland and Toledo.
Kindred TO this are two well autbenti
Gated ses Of persons who can read the
thoughts of others in their minds, One
is an artist in this city, ofhigh reputation,
and the other the editor of newspaper
in neghboirg city, The latter wrote
me that in company with three friends he
had tried the experiment, and for over
forty successive attempts found he could
read the secret thoughts Of his compnn-
ions as soon as they were formed, and
without their being uttered. So, too,
there 10 the instance of two persons, one
Of Them also a resident in this city, who
can give faithful delineation OF the
character and even the prevailing mode
OF mind Of any person, however unknown
to them, upon whom they fix their
attention.
The. parties are at hand, and in our
very midst, and any person that pleases,
may make the investigation that have
All this, and much. vert much more Of
a cognaie nature, went 10 show me thnI
there ~asa high order Of ofinielligence invo'-
we'd in this new phenomenon-an In,elli-
gence outside of and beyond mere mortal
agency; for there was no other hypothesis
which could devise or hear Of that
could al all explain that, whose reality is
established by tho testimony Of tens Of
thousands, and can easily be ascerIuined
by any one. "..r
If these Two points were established
and there are now in these United States
hundreds of thousands of senlient beings
who have Investigated and believe they
e-cui bono? To what end is ii ell?
There never was religious creed pro-
mulgaicd among men which SO entirely
eschewed blind faith, and so fully and al
ways demanded The exercise of the judg.
mtnt and the supremacy Of the reason.
Scarcely rnoie than four years have
elapsed since The "Rochester Knockings'
were known among US. Then mediums
could be counted by units, bu, now by
believers could be nun.
bered by hundreds, now by tens OF thou.
sands. 1t is believed by the bes, inform.
ed that the whole NUMBER in the United
States mGs, be several hundred thou>
sands, and that in this city and its vicinity
there must be from twenty-five TO thirty
thousand. There ure ten or twelve
newspapers and periodicals devoted 10
tho cause, and the Spiritual Library EN-.
braces more than one hundred different
publications, some of which have already
a,taiaed a circulation of more than len
thousand copies. Besides the undislin>
guished multitude there are many men
of high standing and talent ranked among
them doctors, lawyers. and clergymen
in grea, numbers, Proles,an: bishop, the
learned and reverend president Of col
lege, judges of our highest courts, mem-
bers OF Congress, foreign Ambassadors,
and ex-membeIs of the United States
Senate.
Tha: which has thus spread with such
marvellous celerity-lbat which has nj
tracted the attention of So many of the
best minds among ns-cannot be unwor'
thy of my Investigation.
This, then, is the offence for which !
have been araigned a, The bar Of the
public with so unsporing condemnation,
declared unN or,hy of my high office,
falsely accused Of consulting augh' else
than the law Of the land, and my own
reason, in the judgments which ! officially
pronounce, and have had invoked against
me "he fires of Smi,h6tld end the hang
ings of Salem" From such coldem.
nation i, is that | appeal to the calm,
unbiased judgment of my conntrymon.
]. w. EDMONDS.