The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-02-17
Spiritnalisms

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From the very first appearance Of Ills
miserable delusion, We predicted thet Il
would speedily embrace within its creed.
every species Of infdelity and fanaticisla
which had hitherto infested society, ana,
which from their inherent responsiveness.
had long since been discarded by ali ave
the ignorant and the wilfully corrupt but
We did not anticipate that it would so soon
throw of all disguise, and plunge headloug
Into the very sinks of pollution = that Ton
Paine would so soon become its high priest;
and that the most loathsome licentiousnes;
would be canonised as a new avengel,-
that the institution of marriage would be
denounced as relic of barbarism, and
that brazen. faced prostitutes would be
made the mediums through whom the Al
mighty is about to give the world new
revelation of His will. But we have lived
to see all this--to see the most noted
champion Of Spiritualism travelling about
the country with another mans wife, whom
he had persuaded to abandon her lawful
husband, and become his spiritual com.
panion :" and to see spiritualism develop
itself in the promiscuous assembling of
men and women in state Of perfect mud.
ity. But the pen refuses to trace the
loathsome and disgusting record fu{ther.
We admis that there are virtnops and
respectable men and women who hs vsbeen
led astray by the infatuation ofthiAnod.
ern delusio. but who shall set the bounds
beyond which they may not pass. At the
,iucipient stages OF their induction into the
new evangel, they stepped carefully. and
measured well with their words but now
they hesitate not to denounce the Bible rs
miserable fiction, and Jesus Christ as an
impostor. They ridicule all that they once
held sacred-renounce the faith of their
days of innocency, and center their hopes
OF happiness here and hereafter upon the
legs OF an inverted table, or the chickering's
Of haf.Aed ed ventriloquists. Where the
next degenerate step will land them, time
alone will determine.
ltproof Of the correctness of what we
have written is demanded, we refer to re-
ports Of meeting. where men ard women
assembled 10 a state Of nudity. as publish.
cd in the New York TIibuus. For cas.s
Of the most outrageous blasphsmy, We need
only refer to parties well known to our
readers in this vicinity. That the Bible
Is universally denounced by all Spiritual
ists it would be lille to repeat, for they do
not disguise the fact -.Sandy nil v.
Y Her0id.
Was KErrr KNOCKED Down ?-There
is chivalric attempt on the part of L.
compton democratic lstter-writers to prove
that Mr.. Kett (Brooks's second in the
bloody attack on Senator Sumner) was not
fairly knocked down by Grow, when that
gentleman was assailed by the choleric
South Carolinian last Friday night. His
friends say "he tripped and fell" at or
about the time Grows hand was seen near
his Keitt's) head. Tbs attempt to re.
move from Keitt the just disgrace of be-
ing fairly knocked over, reminds US Of a
passage in the testimony in the case Of
| The Commonwealth 0et. Borrowscale, for
an ARRAY, tried at Boston some years ago
Counsel--Did you see William Dor.
rowscale knock the man DOWN.
Witness-William Borrowscale might
do such thing.
Counsel--Answer me directly. Did
you see Borrowscale knock him down?
Witness-l can't exactly say that l
| did.
The Court-State, Nr. Witness. what
you did see.
Witness-Well, l saw William Bor-
rowscale take his hand duay from tie
| mans head QUICK, AMI fhea tke NAN
EEL doicH right away!-N Y Pos.
The st. Louis '!cmooyat gives West
ern view of the Congressional scufiic
Ave do not approve Of these Disgrace
| full personal assaults, which are becoming
80 frequent in deliberatiye assemblies a nd
think that gentlemen should find other
modes and other places for redressing
their grievances. When assaulted, how
ever, self-defence is an impromptu Of ma
ture, and al the fault we have to find with
Mr. Grow is that he was not more en-.
phatic in hrs punishment. WI. Charley
QMalley had gotten into muss, and was
relating 1t to his veteran monitor, Consi.
dine, the latter lectured him very severe
ly for throwing wine glass at his sntag-
onist, saying that it was foolish and un.
wise, but thoughtfully added, "a cut glass
decanter, seized by the neck, well aimed.
and forcibly thrown have known to do
good execution at short distance" In
like manner, VIC may suggest to Mr.Grow
that few bruises about the head have
been known to follow up knock down
very advantageously."
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