Daily national Democrat. [volume] (Marysville, Calif.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-16
1ailp Yatlonal Democrat.
RejOinder to Enquirer.

hejOlhuer 10 Enquirer
EDITOR DEMocGAr: Prom the tenor of
Enquirer's last article, l judge he. is an
honest seeker after truth, therefore without
the loss of words, will endeavor, very brief
", to answer him. AS to the first point,
there is no conflict of opinion between us
do not question that persons known as Spir-
itualists have become insane, though l have
never known one. 1t would he strange if it
were not so, for they are come-outers from
the body of the people, with all their inheri-
ted and acquired sins of organic disturbances
and misdirection cleaving to them, and to
suppose that they would escape the conse-
uuences of those sins, would argue them more
or less than human; but that the investigation
ola subject, controlled by laws entirely nat
ural, as much so as any of the sciences, leads
to insanity | do question. The difficulty is,
that the unthinking lose sight of the " first
cause" altogether, and attribute to the secon-
dairy, what Of right belongs to the first, as the
real cause of the displacement of our reason
ing faculties When proper regard is paid
to the laws of reproduction, and of health;
when rum and tobaccoa and the long catalogue
of death dealing drugs and stimulants are
banished the land, and men and women learn
to follow the dictates of nature in all things
then, and not till then, will insanity be
known no more in the earth.
regard insanity, strictly speaking, phys
ical and not mental disability, the mind be-
ing indistructable it cannot be impaired in
the slightest degree, if it could tie then it
might be destroyed, and hence immortality
would be at an end. The organism being
the medium through which mind manifests
itself, if it be out of working order its efforts
will be failure, incoherence will be the re-
suit
Disease is but the throwing out Of balance
that subtitle fluid, whatever we may choose
to call it, whether electricity, magnetism, or
all these combined, certain it is there is such
force through which spirit comes in contact
with gross matter and moves it; and when
superabundance concentrates to any particu
lar portion of the body, some other portion
must be deficient in this life-force conse-
quently there is want of equalbrium--a
discord, in-harmony, disease; and to restore
this disturbed condition of the system, we
bring into sympathetic relations with the
sufferer, person known as healing medi
nm" that is one who is heavily charged with
this force, and where there is perfect ball
ance in all the forces and the fluid, propelled
10y the strong positive will power of the OPP
orator passes to the system of the patient,
thus re establishing the suspended circulation,
and health ensues. 1t is not always necessary
that personal contact should occur, to restore
the sick but this is the rule; the exceptions
even in Christs healings were not rhany. In
few instances the chain of sympathy be
tween him and the diseased person was suf-
ticiently strong to enable him, by the word
of his mouth to cast out the evils complained
Of but generally, contact, if ever 80 slight,
as for instance the woman who pressed thro'
tue crowd and only touched the hem of his
garment, was necessary to effect cure.
1t is the same in our day, in this " second
coming of Christ it is almost indispensable
that contact should be had though there
are EXCEPTIONS DIR. John Bovee Dodds cured
a Mrs. Cook of Provincetown, Mass, of dis
ease that had crippled her for sixteen years,
and for seven years previously, had rendered
her unable 10 raise from her bed, yet 10y the
simple word of command, pronounced in the
Town Hall of that place, in the presence OF
hundreds of people. she arose and not only
walked, but skipped about like young girl,
and instead of riding home, she walked dis
lance of near one mile, though it rained and
q Al. l.,
Now in considering the healing of those
eight hundred diseased persons confined at
Stockton, in the light of the philosophy of
disease and its removal as above limited at.
the disadvantages must not be overlooked -
In the first place, the causes which have led
to their difficulties are in most cases of long
standing; May # them inherited at tie
birth, and others brought about by long
series of designations and abuse ofthemselves
then in the second place the impossibiity Of
getting into such relations with them as to
be able to bring to bear upon their systems
the balm of Gilead from natures great
store house. need not tell you with how
little favor our offers of help would meet with
either from Church or State" the one would
tell us we "cast out devils by the power of
Belzibub the prince of devils" and the other.
that it is all jugge and trick, consequent
~ these poor untOrtunates must continue TO
be " crucihed between these two thieves
while those who prefer help are stigmatized
as being more insane than those in conhne-
ment. DIR. John Scott of New York, one of
the most successful healing mediums, sent to
the Board of Governors of the Almshouse of
that city, proposition to treat all patients
given up by the medical staff as incurable.-
Was it accepted? Not by any means 1t was
received and placed on the table, and to my
knowledge has not been taken from the table
and the probability is it never will be-
The fact is the world is overwhelmed in SIM
physical and moral, and any attempt to APP
ply the remedy in any but the " orthodox
and regular" way, is sure to bring down
from the doctors" their choicest maledictions
They can see no great evil in the world but
fPirtualism because its advocates are striv-
Ing to save the bodies and souls of their fell
low-man by means not altogether orthodox
REJoINDER.
ESCAPE OF PRIsoNERs AT SAN JosE.-On Sat
nrday morning, seven persons confined in one
OF the cells of the San jose Jail, made an at