The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1855-06-01

OAy O0Ps0u y AAVuS s0A0 0oo sOVy
communication, under the very ap-
plicable cognomen Of" Green Cheese, {"
which arrested attention and arrayed
in antagonist;c battalion, all the acri-
monious feeling, nature has bestowed
upon me. to at once demand ample
indemniication for wounded vanity.
Green Cheese" seems to have dis
posed Of me, in very summary man
ner, leaving no room for retrogade
movement, but, unceremoniously casts
me headlong from the high pedestal
on which ! had somewhat egoistically
placed myself Alas! MI. Editor
What is now left for me? Where
shall I hide my diminished head 2
Do you suggest under a cabbage leaf :
| know from your over flowing kindly
feeling, that you sincerely commisser-
ate my "tallen condition ITO think
Of it. Pity me all ye readers of the
Comet, " at the castigation received
rudely seized intgigan ic arms. raised
in uncerimonious haste, and hurled
with needless care from that pedestal
of would be fame-upon the rough
and unpublished base !; there laying
PROSTATE, with bones crushed, life
blood oozing from every pulse, pain
racking every nerve, and life itself
nearly extinct, with barely sufficient
to cry out. "spare me yet a little lon.
ger, and not so completely, to i'm
molate, by the logical arguement,
deep erudition, and life long research,
evin.'din one friends communication,
who will please pardon for placing
among the Swans, who are idly stand
ing, "like Ratterfelto with hair on
end, content with admitting part of
its wonders and explaining none. He
will permit me to use what little life /
be has left, 10 reply to his cogent
conclusions, Seldom ever noticing anv /,
article of the kind, and only induced ,
10 the present instance, to respectfully
correct the error he has fallen into, in I
doing which, if I am too tedious, allow :;
scissors " to abreviate. In the Lee a
lure "'green cheese alluded to, l u
ear his ears must have been filled with u
he music of -" FAIRIES, or the buzziDg
II sublunary impression, for distinct :. :
y stated my belief in Clairvoyance as
with the higher phenomena
# Mesmerism. But denied, what is .
ermed independent Clairvoyance. ." ,
n the possibility ofany subject to see,
u know. things that are passing un- =
with the knnwledge Of the o.
operator, or some person present at 9
he time Of the experiment. But :
ir-when our friend attempts to make :
'ssertions Of which be knows little, Of
'pon subjects-his article proves, he h;
;nows less, then he places himself in n
position in which bis arguments will q
70 used for his own discomfortue.-
Hence his denial of A. J. Davis, as I
umed spirit transpoition, at once ::
roves his ignorance, not only of the IL IL
nan. but of his published "RevelIa- e eff
ions, which he will easily see by
eference to his "Natuers Revelations" r
here will be found the very descrip- /
on referred to in my lecture, of
superior Clairvoyant condition." :
l which, he takes trip to the Moon, n
nd does, there describe the planets, i
s inhabitants, country, &c.. by his IN
spiritual sight. And if "Green -
=" had been present at some of
is clairvoyant sittings. he would at 1,
nee admit the uncoutlsness " of his -
nguage. SIS
Yeti do not deny his high mes
eric excitability, and the glooming Ia
etaphors that fall from his lips, q
hen under the influence of a polish y
scholar, as an operator. But 1 70
deny, his singular sublimity Of Ian It.
lage, as given in his voluntary clair yo
,yent flights, as first introduced 1912 Ing
ID '43. I freely admit his recent pa
'lish of manners and language, which FL
easily accounted for, by study and =
ose application to his subjects. But
nd sir-I fear I am intruding upon ."
ur kindness and the patience of
ur readers, and hence I will close
remarking. that I wish not "to