The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-04-08
Awful Assemblage-Grand Meeting OF tn
Spiritual Rappers At Springfield.

Awful ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Meeting or the
Spiritual Rappers At Springfield.
The meeting of the spiritual rappers philoso-
piers. and mediums. at Springfield, which has
been in session for the last two or three days,
takes the premium from all the new-fangled So
cieties which have sprung into existence in
Massachusetts during the last five years. We
had imagined that the picnics Of the rampant
abolitionists, headed by Garrison. Wendell Phil
lips and Company, were hard to beat, until the
Woman's Rights Association at Worcester.
composed Of the most heterogeneous colors and
materials of both sexes, and rabid for the unre-
stricted liberties of anarchy and miscellaneous
amalgamation, carried off the palm. And now,
in their turn. the advocates Of women's rights
to the breeches are driven to the wall by the
gathering Of the spiritualists, in solid column,
at Springfield.
1t is most wonderful and awful congrega-
tion-some three or four hundred of these
mysterious and fearful people-rappers and
mediums, and philosophers-co d.
rectly with the spirits Of the dead, of all
ages of the world Of all countries, of all Ian
guages, and nations and kindred and tribes
under the sun, from Adam and Eve down to
the important epoch Of Noah's ark and from
the ark to the tower of Babel and from Babel to
the exodus Of the Israelites from Egypt, and so
on through the successive movements and
transitions Of people and nations, smack down
down to the discovery of the gold mines of
Australia. and the latest appointments at
Washington. 1t was the boast of Owen Glen
dover, that
Il can call up spirits from the Vastly Deep
The only drawback was, that when he did
call, they wouldn't come. But these spiritual
rappers say they can make them come-even
the spirit Of Glendower himsef-and make them
talk upon the most important and the most
trifing subjects, for twenty-five cents ticket
What field Of discovery is here opened before
us, especially if they call in the spirits of the
living as well as the dead, as some have pro-
posed to do! With the establishment of the
spiritual science upon this broad basis the ex-
ploration Of the old ruins of Europe, Asia,
Africa, and America. will become IAN obsolete
idea;" for we can call in the builders them
selves. All history can be rectiied and the
blanks filed up, from eotemporaneeus witness
re- through all time. We shall then be enabled
80 know directly to the point
How much it cost TO build the pyramids,
What became of the ark after the food
Che contents of the books of the Alexandrian IL
brary,
Who stole the lost books of Lvy,
The travels Of the ten lost tribes Of Israel and
where those people now are,
The doings of the dark ages,
The author of the letters a .Iunius
The history Of the Aztecs,
Who struck Billy Patterson,
and all other matters concerning any per-
son, any country, any people, or anything that
has occurred in all time, of whom or of which
historians and sntiquaries are in the dark
So also with reference to transporting events
will become utterly useless, ex-
cept as an opposition line to the spiritual me-
diums All that we shall have to do will be to
hire first rate rapping medium; and he, or
she, by communicating spiritually with General
Pierce and his cabinet, can inform us of all they
are doirg. or intend to do for the next elk
weeks, which viii be somewhat ahead Of the