New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-02
FROM BOSTON.
H,on An Oce a.ionsl Correspondent.

Do you know am coming slowly 70 tho conc.u-
sisn that it is very hard to please everybody |
have lsng tired TO 30 it. AL who know anything |
sbout me mus. be aware Of the plastic amiabity Of
nv temper, and how i am always doing my utmost
% accommodate my self to everybody else. But
shall have to give II up. It's Of no use trying l
can't do it. Hero are the Spirits, for example.
don't believe in them, but that does Mt conciliate
The Courier, which has undertaken to lay them in
The black sea Of it's own ink. On the other hand,
am entirely willing that all who do believe in them,
and Ike their society, should keep company with
them just as much as they like, and get all they
can out Of them, and yet the Sprituaists don't
seem TO lhe mo any better tAas The Courier. This
hat calls me heather because i am content with
this world So long as / can keep bod OF 1t, wtde
the former evidently think that if a heather, am
not a philosopher, because had little rather not
know anything about the sext, as long as car help
myself 1t is certainly very distressing case.
Sosns ten days ago or tbereabc'lts, "a Spiritual
it" addressed you letter touching the heroses OF
ysur unworthy Occasional Correspondent The
Aeyity with which spoke of his disembodrd friends
m .'dull doQsn seemed particularly to displease
HIM. OF course, could orly speak 81 my own
experience Those that he has known may have
been able "to set the table in a roar" that they
were tippjng but those that l Encountered in my
brief interviews with the departed we're as fiat as
the surface and heavy as the mahogany Of the Ia
bles by which they uttered their Oraclcs IL is long
time ago bu. still sensibly remember the dreary
stupidity Of the stances, and how near came being
made ghost myself from pure WEAKNESS OF spirit
and disgIst of hie. AS nothing dishgrees with mo
no much ss doing what don't Ike, and as my con
,hjtutjop is particularly sensitive to boring, was
satisfied with one or two experiments and came
back to this breathing world in the best OF humor
with it and the strongest possible Discrimination ior
apv other, IL your Spiritualist friend has been
kcky enough to call from the Vastly deep spirits more
lively agreeable and entertaining than those be can
End in the flesh have no disposition to prevent
his interviews with the same, as 1 certainly have
none to intrude upon them. | merely ask leave
most respectfully to decline their acquaintance and
beg them TO strike my name OIL their visiting list
they have ever put 1t there
And must say while on this point, that think
there is slight nconsequence about the first part Of
your worthy correspondents letter, if divine Its
Yneanpg correctly. infer that in bis opinion, this
part of the country and especially the region round
about Harvard University is particularly fruitful Of
dullbess. He even thinks that may have been
under the narcotic influences OF this indigenous
growth when / wrote certain things. Now, it
seems to me, allowing TINT the Cambridge pro-
fessors are "as dull as the fat weed that r0ts by
Lethes wharf," and that myself am as bad as If
4 too were a philosopher it by no means follows
that the ghosts are rot 50. My proposition is that
the ghosts are "deporably dull dogs" your Spirit
aal friend replies that the Cambridge soraRs are
-siuller dogs yet This, sdmit, is deporable fact,
IL il DO one, but il leaves my statement mistaken,
until il 10 contradcted by the production OF some
hveher saies and more entertaining or edi-
flying communications than those which have driven
90 many wel-disposed persons from their society.
IL 10 my opinion that il just this circumstance that
will work the cuIe of the larger part Of thOse who
have partaken in any degree of this epidemic, and
therefore do not share in the apprehensOns of my
CAMBRIDGE friends 10 the III effects 10 result from
It. think the truth, whatever proportion there
may be about if, will in due time separate itself
from the delus0n, and don't believe any mole
damage will come Of II, rs sad IN my iast4etter,
than often follows religious aud political excite
nents
Your excellent correspondent is further dsplessod
Of nv suggesting "a tremendous letting alone as
sure remedy for Sprtualism. IL Is perfectly natu-
raj he should disagree with me, and he 10 entirely
free to hold his opili ion, Om 70 hold mne which
certainly still do. IL strikes me, however, that bis
klustraOn from the origin and spread oi Christianity
is not pat TO his purpose. The supernatural sppear
ances on which the Church Universal grounds its
faith in its divine origin and the divinity OF its author
were not spiritual ones, described by the MARIA
tors. Ii was not the spin, Of Jesus Christ that
appeared TO the Disciples by tie Sea Ut Gaee and
on the road to Emmaus aud elsewhere according to
the EsaDgelists, but bis actual body Of flesh 4Ild
blood, which had been crlclted to death aud lsla
three days in the sepulcher. SO that think no in
ferences can be drawn from those narratives in favor
of modern Spirituahsm. They must be either az
cepted or rejected as they stand, and cannot fairly
be construed to mean something that the wrlterd
certainly dld not mean to convey. But though 1
think Spirituosm might NJ Tery safely LETT TO itself
cannot SEQ the least objection TO the DISCUSSION and
examination that is going on about 1t. i am very
sure the scientific observers who have undertaken
the investigate of the physical phenomena claimed
for cannot possibly stand in The way u the settle
rnent Of the oi-p1ted facts.
Your worthy friend asks whether [ fhould not
IKE to learn the law that viii expbin 20 rs Shake
speare's self" l'ost assuredy. / should Aud
beg him when he las discovered it TO let ue know
an about it. 1 have not the metaphysical scumen
to investigate a mater Of this pyo.Yndity myself not
even if ghost came from the grave 10 help ne no
more than have the knowledge end skill in obser-
sahon to examine and ascertain TIE true character
Of the physical cites attributed to the spirt.
1 must depend on mere competent persons 10 do
these jobs for OILY, if they shoyld come 10 Tia
conclusion that the Spirituast Theory is correct,
and that departed spirits communicate with
those yet in the body would reneH my earnes: re-
quest for their interest With the ghosts 70 forbcdr any
personal acquaintance. most respectfully decline
their visits aud trust that their good bleeding aud
sentlemanll.e feelings will prevent them from sbGa
ing their right Of cnr(e 10y The he! hole 20 ntrude
upon my privacy. And a. fer the occupations OF the
next world il sny authentic information should be
gained about them, prefer aot knowing anything
an the subject. ! don't care sbout taking distant
book at the Ceesial City from the Detachable Noun.
tains through the shepherds pIospect-SiaS,. ] hal
rather wait I'll I'm fairly across Jortan. And that
The pleasure msy Be the greater, shall do my best
TO Keep on this side F., lOng a. can.