The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-11-06

THE LAST DISPATCHES IRON THE SPIRIT
WoRLD.-Nery much to the dissatisfaction Of
hundreds Of distinguished -bades who desired
to be heard upon the momentous question that
the country is to pass upon to day we are
obliged, on account of the exceeding great
pressure on our columns, to select only few
OF the more important communications which
have been received through our special trance
mediums We have heard from Rufus Choate,
who again appeals to his fellow countrymen to
keep step and march to the music of the Union.
most eloquent outburst Of the Massachusetts
orator was cut short by the appearance of John
Brown, who came the medium said, in q
heavy black cloud, with here and there
flashes of chain lightning, and impermeated
the atmosphere with strong smell
of birthstone. Brown was accompanied by
several other insurrectonsts, white and black.
They all hoped that the Union would be dis
solved, and declared that, il Lincoln should be
elected, they had not suffered in vain. Brown
said that he hoped to hear of several insurrec'
and the lst of January.
Patrick Henry was quite certain that New
York would do her whole duty, as in the old
revolutionary times. He said that the present
crisis was as imminent "a that in which the colo.
nies we're placed when he made his favorite
speech in the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Henry hoped that all the Union men would
vote early. A party of French Jacobins, head
ed by Danton, next appeared, shouting hur
rah for the guillotine Down with the govern
ment Property is theft. Elect Lincon Dis.
solve the Union. Smash everything generally.
Order, peace, liberty and law are antique
and respectable delusions, with much more to
the same purpose Napoleon said the only
thing left for us was a military despotism and
suggested that his nephew should protect us
With little grapeshot and canister. Lafayette
said he had not been 80 much excited
since the day when he commanded the National
Guard and induced Louis XVI to mount the
tricolorea cockade, while the Queen held up
the Dauphin to the view of the sans culotes.
He hoped and believed that the people OF the
United States would be true to the principles
to maintain which their Revolutionary forefa.
Gates, Knox, Lee, Lincoln and great number
of colonies 10 the Army of Independence
joined in this wish; Hancock, Adams, Otis,
Elbridge Gerry and other patriots of the Boston
tea party epoch sent messages similar to the
above.
After this there was o moment or two of
breathless silence. The medium said that some
great spirit was approaching, and she was i'm
pressed with feeling Of the most profound We.
neration. The communication was from our
first President, the immortal Washington,
through Chief Justice Marshall who administer
ed to the Father of his Country the oath of
fidelity to the constitution and the laws. The
Chief Justice said that were Washington now
alive he would take his position where he stood
seventy one years ago, liz the City Hall of New
York, and would call on those who truly loved
their country to put down sectionalism and to
crush out fanaticism by an earnest and united
effort at the polls He hoped that If he had rem.
dered any service to his country that the coun-
Try would prove Its gratitude by preserving the
Union intact. II is not irreverent to say that
the spirit OF him who was first in war, first in
peace, and first in the hearts Of his country.
men, will animate the friends of the Union in
the great struggle of to day. So, forward,
Union men, forward to the polls. Vote early