Washington telegraph., 1853-07-06

under the table. but did not see the pencil
At length | found it lying diagonally before
me, three or four feet from the table. The
lead was broken of in the wood. sharp
ened it and again put it on the drawer
Again | heard the sound of the pencil on
paper. On being directed to look at the
paper discovered pencil marks on each
side of the outer sheet but no writing
Then was received the following communi-
cation M fn nH
f: ''The power is not enough to write a sem
tence This will show you that can write
If you will meet on Friday, precisely at Y,
| will write short sentence .-J0in C.. Cal
/ harm" naaf a rrr
We met pursuant to aPpointment-tooll
our seats at the table. our hands and arms
resting upon il as usual. Iplaced the paper
with my silver cased pencil on the drawer,
and said . HN 1rH
MY friend I wisE the sentence to be in
your own hand writing, so that your friends
will recognize it, lie replied, You viii
know the writing"
He then said
''Have your minds on the spirit of John
G. Calhoun" N
soon heard rapid movement of the
pencil on the paper, together with move
inent Of the drawer | looked. and found
my pencil outside of the drawer near mv
feet. but found no paper on the drawer
where | placed it. On raising Up tie draw
er, discovered the paper all under il The
sheets were little dcranged, and on ex-
amining / found on the outside sheet these
words:
I'm with you still
afterwlrd showed the +" sentence to
Gen. Ja,aes Hamilton, former Governor Of
South Carolina, Gen. Waddy Thompson,
former Minister to Mexico Gen Rob't 3.
Campbell late Consul at Havana. together
with other intimate friends of Calhoun, and
also TO ono of his SONS, all of whom arc az
well acquainted with his handwriting as their
own, ana they all pronounced it 10 be 4 per
feet fac simile Of the handwriting of John
C.. Calhoun.
Gen. Hamilton stated fact in connection
with this writing of great significance. He
says that Calhoun was in the habit Of wri-
ting I'm for II am;" and that he has nu-
merous letters from Il in where the abbrevi-
alton j. thus used
Mrs. Gen. Macomb has stated the same
fact q. ,,s- She aay- thit her husband, tie
late Cen Mncomh, has shown to her Cal
houns letters to him, where this abbrevia-
tion II M was used for | am and spoke
of it as peculiarity of Calhoun
How significant, then. does this fact be-
come! We have not only the most une-
quivocal testimony to the handwriting itself;
but lest any skeptic should suggest the pos
sibility Of an imitation or a counterfeit, this
abbreviation. peculiar to himself. and known
only to his most intimate friends, and which
no imitator or counterleiter could know, is
introduced BY way Of putting such suggcs-
tion to fiji eht forever.
This sentence" is perfectly characteris-
tic Of Calhoun 1t contains his terseness
of style and his condensation Of thought
1t is a text from which volumes might be
artten. Il proves;
l. Tie Immortality Of the soul.
2. The power Of spirits to revisit the
earth.
3 Their ability to communicate with rel
atives and friends
4. The identity Of the spirit to all eter-
nifty.
How ono soul expands WIN those SUD-
lime conceptions. How resistless il this tes-
timony of their truth. How surprising
that men can doubt. when this fcod Of liv-
ing light is poured upon them by spirits,
who, in the language Of Webster" ''revel
in the glory Of the eternal light Of God"
Very truly, yours,
n. II. TAI4LMADGE.
Mrs SARAH ii. WHITMAN,
Providence. Rhode Island,