The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-08-28
2ichmond 1ispatth.
IS, 1866.
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Spiritualists' Convention.

who ought to be proof against such intan-
riblc and unreliable things, viz: Judges.
| Most of them are persons who put no
| faith in revealed religion, yet show capa-
, CITY of credulity in believing the whole
round of mysteries included under the
head of spirituaism that is astonishing.
| Indeed. they have constituted q sort of
new religion and new faith out of the
vague and deceptive manifestations from
| the spirit world through their mediums.
And they discourse with endless speech of
these matters in an incomprehcnsible and
transcendenta, jargon. which takes its cha
racter from their wild, confused, and un-
defnablc nature.
1t is wonderful with what case tho large
community putting faith in these things
detach themselves from all of the systems
of religious belief and social order which
mankind, in its best informed and most
virtuous state, have adopted as good and
true. Having cut loose from the restraints
of religion and authorized morality, they
have disregarded human law, and relieved
themselves from every bar to indulgence
of desire and passion. Hence We find spi-
ritualism, free love, woman's rights, aboli-
ton ofall punishmcnts, infdelity, and athc-
ism, all commingled and fermenting to-
gcther. The idea has been expressed by
a very learned divine that the Almighty
permitted these phenomena of spiritua lism
in order that men who, in their vanity, re-
iectcd the mysteries of the revealed reli-
gion might be confused and confounded by
becoming believers in the contrivances Of
evil spirits, which are devoid of utility or
hon onSil, fn
their believers. Whatever be the intcn-
ton of Providence, certainly these dis
ciples Of spiritualism betray wonderful
facility to moral dcpravity and social dis
order.
A convention of these people was in ses-
sion last week in Providence, Rhode
Island. We sketch some of the curious
incidents of their Thursdays sitting. The
body consisted of some three hundred
delegates! presenting the oldest array of
all sorts of people. There were long
haired men and short haircd women-wO-
men in bloomcr dresscs-old skinny wo-
men with shrill voices, given to scolding-
young women with opera cloakS and lam
gushing eycs-womcn with sharp noses,
spectaclcs on them, and very suggestive
of front wigs and car-trumpcts. The men
were of almost every variety save that
having the appearance of well-bred gen.
tleman. He wasn't there.
A number of speakers wanted to know
what spiritualism had don2 "a very per-
tinent question. Some Sc ed to think
that it had done enough by relieving its
followers from the shacklcs of ortho-
doxy" and securing freedom Of all kinds,
including free love. Others were for CEN
trail organization.
Many of the "Mceiums" seemed to
have an axe to grind. Placards were
abundant announcing that certain persons
would tell all manner of news about love,
business, absent friends, and so forth. But
a waggish reporter observed that none of
them seemed able to foretcll the state of
the weather on the next day, as there was
proviso for the postponement of the
spiritualstS' picnic in case Of rain
One Mr.. Swan, of Connecticut, stated
that he was a licensed Methodist preacher
for sixteen years before he embraced spi-
ritualsm. lie recited details of his prophe-
cies during the war, and related free
conversations he had had with General
Andrew Jackson. General Jackson had
instructed him to say that he thanks God
that Andrew Jackson was taken out of our
physical world, and that Abraham Lincoln
was in his place, which was preferable on
the occasion, as Mr.. Lincoln possessed
another and special organization of mind
and body.
Swan recited a communication, in dog
gerel, from the General, which we copy
below as being amusingly absurd, connect
ed with the name of Old Hickory. Swan
said it had met the appreciation of Cover
nor Buckingham in a Union Convention,
he having made motion to print it. 1t is
given rerbQtim:
A poetical communication from A
Jackson Delivered through Sanford b Swan
Impressionally Medium
Friends Of FREEDOM Awake
All that's dear is now at ST. ke
Girde on your armes for the Flte
Thus all with you VIII Ds hlSht .
God thus far has Crowned you with sucksess
Deale Justly and he viii you Bless
With victory on the Rebel Host
His Angels will chase them from your cost
Tennessee where my Bones doe Lay
Whoe long for Victory dide prey
To- day in Gods name can shout
Know ing their Rebil toes are driven out
Grant whoe never did surrender
lie with vs,ron trugss came 10 spsen1dder
Where he made bully Brss to SssIs %a Tna Esl''
While Long Street did yel lde In Paine
They say to fght the yankes their is no Fune
Look up sunes of FREEDOM Behold them Rune
| Old Hickory the lover of the Erie
| Has not forgot the Old Liberty Tree
Which Jackson elped protect and Train
AMr. Wheeler, of Boston, exhorted the
members not to make fools of themselves,
and act as though they had patent right
for insanity. lie called upon the ladies,
! who were in the habit of clamoring for
their rights, to come forward and stalk"
Miss Hutchings, screechy and Jerky
lady, exclaimed: "The ladies don't clamor
for their rights; they take them"
Mr.. Dyott, of Philadelphia, we suppose
son of old DR.. Dyott, who physcked his
thousands to death, advocated what he
called the "lyceum system" defined to
be "intellcctual, physical, and attectional
education The following resolution was
the subject of the discussion:
ResolUed, As reason and experience
teach that an early education has lasting
effect on our lives and opinions, and IS nara
to eradicate by reason, even when totally
false, therefore to be religious We should
discountenance the sectarian teaching ana
Sunday School discipline of children,
which ills their minds with religious er-
rors and false ideas of God and nature,
and lend our untiring efforts to build up
such system Of physical and mentai
gymnastics as are taught in the children's
progressive lyceum of tho spiritualists.
Mr.. PEBBLES moved to include in the re-
solution moral gymnastics" which meant,
he said, the exercise of the moral facul-
A.. D,.hlao lo,,lnroI tho orrnro of rly