Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-08-28

with Mr. II, Melville Fay, trance speaker, for
the benefit Of G. s Dickinson, Of Cleveland,
Ohio, inventor Of the centrifugal gun. After
the circle commenced the gun was turned
with sufficient velocity by the controlling spir-
IL, Sir Henry Morgan, TO throw ounce balls
through an inch aud half plank after which
Napoleon Bonaparte delivered the following
address upon the utility Of the centrifugal
gun.
ADDRESS
Shall pronounce enlogy that intellect
has gained over material matterf Shall
pronounce a eulogy on the powers that mind
has originated from the depths Of intellectual
ism and planted upon the lofty plane Of aspi-
rational science? Yes, shall / see il now
glistening ia the past and lighting man on
ward towards nober and higher Inventions
and making him feel that the power which is
intuitional within his mind is mighty, is
great, is Godlike, is noble.
What intend TO speak upon this evening
is something that shall ring out It's thunder
tones upon the broad battle fields in the strife
Of nations, that shall ring its clarion notes to
the shrill tunes Of fife and drum, and sabre
stroke and dying groans until all war shall
be annihilated and man stand upon that foot
ing which Natures God the God Of peace and
loveliness, has implanted in his breast, where
it shall ever reign. That gun, If in the past,
yes, If in the dead past had had il with me,
instead Of being Emperor Of half Of Europe,
would have been ruler Of the whole world; for
what is that power there confined in that small
compass7 II is one which, though Kings
and monarchs may frown as they may, the
possessOr of that power would be emperor Of
Morlds his fact has originated itself by a
physical law law that is stamped upon the
eternal diadein, and the stars Of science gilt
ieT around IT, Had taken It with me to
Moscow lofty heights, from each mosque
aHd steeple, each minaret and lofty burning
tower, each soldier would have been inspired
" the noble motto Of individualsm, resulting
ft9m great confidence in the powers of mighty
science, when arrayed against the powers ofI
ten millions Of armies makes man conuue-
ror u worlds III had had it with me there,
each Russian serf would have been stamped
with the impress of true and single individ.
uality, for it takes but four men TO man it,
and wIth that gun these four are worth ten
million soldiers. Yes, yes, from the thunder
clouds of heaven, where the lghtnings play
in their wild flight and in their beautiful glory,
would have echoed the coming thought upon
the mountain tops of mother Nature. Glory
be to Science; it has raised man above the
level of the brute; it has placed him upon the
heaven of heavens, where inventive genius
always gains for him, through the courts of
glory, a true home and true famel
But now it comes down to the point of the
utility of this instrument, which point | can |
dispose Of in few words The work there |
exhibited in its simplest form, is nothing but |
some invention which has long been buried |
and which man in the mists of ignorance has |
not dared to look into, for fear mind will not |
admit the rays of truth which are there shin |
ing forth; every cog and atom of that simple |
machine is glistening with the ray of truth to |
every mind, and in the advent of that physi- |
cal law which is there shown forth, he can |
force which would destroy all |
the combined universe, from now until the |
future ends Of destiny Yes, ] repeat it, |
could have been Emperor, could have made |
earth bow to my feeble arm, and now while |
my body is sleeping in the embrace of mother |
Nature, in spirit | look back upon the battle |
field, and as my spirit seems to hover over the |
corpses and buried bones, only wish that |
with my banner appraised could have had the |
old centrifugal at my command and then |
could have involved them in one unshapen |
mass of utter ruin Wo to the proud We'll |
hngton then; with oil the ambition that could |
have been pent up within my heart, ] could |
have had no power stronger than that which |
has arisen Phoenix like in these modern days
and stamped itself upon the apex of scientific
fame. The invention of Mr. Dickinson and
that gun, with the attachment of steam power,
will carry all before it Though simple in its
nations must have it, and the
lime will come when war will be ended but If
i goes on at its present rate, it will take gen
srations to end it, but in the use of and appli-
cation of this gun, we would have one glori-
ous battle, and though it should involve all
nature in destructive ruin, and though hu-
nanty should shed his best hearts blood up-
On the hearthstones Of her affections, still
lown must it go, and no one must stand back
ghen the work of one decided battle would
rec the world from such Il curse as war We
,ould have Waterloo and a Moscow prepar-
ID, and we could at once have one lambent
lame burst forth which would at once stop
var, because don't you see that if each ma
ion possesses that piece of machinery when
I is perfected on a still more developed prin-
,iple, then all nations would be on an euual-
y, and one universal ratio, consequently il
yor should break out it. would be decided
md a last one, and also it would be terrible
md a bloody one but the time will come
when either of these two things must be-war
must continue for generations, orthere must
,e attached to each nation as is there repre-
ented, (pointing to gum such a power
when none can stand before the others, and
lare not move herself that is my opinion, but
lad not science spread its mantle DER the
world of mind and intelligence, it would have
'eqCired a greater amount of destruction. To
ave made Europe what i Is ! made it trem-
de, but if had had that piece Of mechanism
here / would have made il awake and kiss
he dust beneath my feet To comprehend
hat gun you must comprehend all the laws
which science brings to your aid To com
'rehend that you must let your thoughts go
IS clear as light and deep into the fathomless
mysteries of natures heart and gathers from
Ter organic selfhood all the stars of science
hat may be concentrated there, and you have
I in its simplest form; it may look simple, but
he sling power, that power which sways the
lestinies of worlds in causing the motion of
he planetary bodies around the sun; the same
,ower that causes these bodies to revolve
low throws its shade upon my now forsaken
,rave; on st Helena's rock bound coast do
geeP no, no, beyond the shadows of that
rave / see the blue ocean dashing high.
What else meets my eye2 A sail yonder upon
IS waving billows a battle is being fought :
low in sight of my lonely island Oh for this !
modern piece Of mans invention to swell the ,
Hood and strife; its voice would silence the =
oar Of clashing combatants of heart-rendng
'roans in making them feel our independence
nd strength. oh for the time when man
lightly shall see his own interest
II may be strange that as a spirit should