New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-12-06

IA .aie.asctce sas rate uiaif,s,. 10 500. r
! wen, wconscopsly - ne, sihOu. pov~ ~ c.,s
tro On ny par thu. cushion OF ths hos,
! gives eN"..n'% Ior intelligence apart fron n..-s.
.w6Iicg 20 mire, coma Indicating w..h uine, a. %,
o. Nth another 10 hums1 tom, then re ~
nl.lN in. srd cones ia irresistible Mr. Hs-
.etce u What better statement Of il ,bsa tia.
gu s'b s'A'~ 9Dpon,n II Of Spiniaal.sr NJ. Asass.s
OF tie eminent ~lle s,sn'rr f,rs Dsi,x - -
IN o., sFsa. pSSn manifestation Of intepseacs.
he'.N, tNsto : - e iaieloc', f,om WHOA
" -, ,s,Ss',st;sp. 81 in "Igerce proceed" Is
was tie Old story Of the suionsi. a. ~. - !, 49,,
clinory woul0 sec INT for the Htsie =, .sn,".-
voud move n. little men that NOu.i 1.
san,s. Tie aat.-plsycr that played u.
fcte and tie copasgratun Of Moscow that ~.
tuin Itself but as soon ~ sec'si
had been made in game of cless, we kne" ths' Ia w
rust C man inside, W. hal dlscoNered tle sa'
sS,rirg intelligence. To the eye tie placing o. tas
second Iece Lot stranger than the first, bat -
he mind Il wss the step from matter 10 intellect \,
3 e staples; I'M intelligent communication tirons'
the Ylhrail ofa table, carefully tested wcs better
evidence 20 hin thsu cfhe spiritual agency, than ths
.lcSu,rco cf al the spiritual mediams that ever
tlnei tie word or al The Physoa power that ever
tctued fpS3y Ia move u. IL was niid sAn-t matter
Nor WAS II u account whether this answering intea
csncc told the truth. For ar hour he had has, Will,
siit'rg with medium. two currents OF cva
veIssuon ron Size by side With two d,iS-eat
prot seed spiritual b,irgs. dihSfn. styles o.
sounds. different methods Of COMMUNICATION, AMI cH-
frcut nav dusties. 81 fsr "a he conld judge. O'e
Of them was beitg whom lie kew To D. IN the spint'
Csl world, ard tins told nothing bU' truth; the othcs
nothing but les and most ngeniors hes they w'rr.
lie was good deal nOre puzzled AMI l.wildcroI aai
entertain Cd by the false than the tfu. one. ls
mood was he same, the medium the s'me. The me
dium Was absolutely ignorant OF the crum stances ot
the case AMI did not discover until the end that %"
WIS lot rs true a. the other And yet he undertook
10 say that tie evidence IT au existence oussiie ct
I'm sell just As good lor the false one a, for the
,rrc one. Tie proof Of Sphitualism demanded only
the denoe Of an intelligence apart from himself anf
from the medium. The chsactcr # that Intelligence
fer vcraci'v hal nothing too with the argument.
Mr. llcaINsoN. in the evening, SAID that he could
general Glass of Irc DDS OF spitituN inter
coue which WAS notrepresented n the ;acts ofspn,
uslisn He r,loced tnat thernhad been 80 many htfa
headed skcptcs many cose'qne s'ioning soientisc
men. Generally the heads were not hani enough AMI
the questioning not close enough. Ater hundreis ~
Thousands of facts extending over eism yens, dur
rg which time three ont at every four who had
tally Investigated it. had become converted To
II, and il was feared that it might have ma
joriy in tho next Congress, tho harden OF ptoo'
might i.iy be- pnsuaiod to I, 4 ca the o'"e. sy,.
DuIirg tbs time 90 800 mediums lal been continually
tested by the hardest skeptcS When the hr.t paohc
invest CATION was held in Rpchestcr. one man bet
hat thst he could III halt an hours private mvcatgi-
ti,u find out the trick, and they pu' him ON te Ia
yes,igatirg Committee; another that he would lump
over tcnesoo Falls II be did not expose Il, AMI they
PVT him on. They made the investigations, ono ct
them paid his bet the other did not ou'
10th had ever since acknowledged the trnth
nj MEDIUMS. i was easy for the Spirit
ralist: as il be would have been such without
them II WAS easy for them - De- doc.ivct IN some
thugs but they could not be deceived into ccaversa-
ton by the rsppirgs Every dcoeyius medium ot this
kni was wretch or SO playing upon the sy'1ps'e'
Of human naia1 Nov , Were a. ds ws.c
the louest and blqckest deceiyers They were oar
troilors snJ sisters sometimes ~ blood always 40
humanity. What coud bc the motive i0r dcceptsonf
Nu,cy OF the -, 600. how many had made monoy
# 1tr
bad l0si. Was wee so mrinsicahy stlfal-
i've that men and women would innre then'e,vn"
and their fame tnr the love of establishing Hes was
luman with them so totally deprNyci ina, they
would not do the good action Oi exposing II even ior
money lie would give bs hundred dollars to any
one sho woyi su. Ain him fifteen minutes CONVERSE
ton by trek machinery proof against such tests
as he employed with mediums. lilo would advise any
ole who would believe in SpItua'ism TO go IT, any
person they could find one who proesscd To expose
Spirtuslism The men who made II their business 10
expose Il would be able 30 dslroye Il il IL could bo
dsIruyei. L. was ~ litlG use o. detail facts, We
sust tor ourselves. We could hardly believe our
own eyes. When he heard guitar play without
haIds, when he saw II IN broad daylight any tune that
he led for lie thought would be just as strange
b. should hear again r. L Was the fire. tue. Tho
widow Of Honest join Davis, herself the wife al
Americas most eminent historian, had told him that,
lie sitting in a large paror lher Own with two other
lades AVID The medium only ia the room, she snd hoy
SAW wooden pencil rise on table in tho centcr o'
the room, near which was rob )dy--eaw the penci'
Use ahd Wlhc nm itehStht CONTINUITY luob t'ui 're"
10 her. What an immense number Of i,cts had come
through thesc 1910 mediums, On alter and less than
tiis There were countless millions OF these facts
piled up 70 the merriment If academies and scientific
men. but sonc day The man would como who should
discover the law Of them. Would any lnyee,saie he
trusted liza. they would fluid evidence of an intoli.
gence and that hey would then agree with the srsn-
men, which Mr.. Agassiz derived from it. Bu, after
oil tie beet evidence which Sphituaists could show
that their faith was an &C VINCE was some practical
nobercss in their lives. Long ago IN this country
J nerson and Hamilton and Burr announced the high
est truths Of Intellectual religion Bu, they destroyed
the eficc's Of their teaching by the immoraites oi
their private lives. TIE world could not bs reformed
by letting out little more Truth upon II. It was vs
and not truth. e and not light which ma le really
letter. NJ. IIrgins0n cosed with payer.