The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-09-19
Rictnroud 1ispatttt.
SEPTEMBER 10, 1871.
THE CIRCULATION OF THE DISPATCH
IS LARGER THAN THE COMBINED CIR
CULATIoN OF ALL TIE OTHER DAILY
OF THE CITY.
The Sp2rltualists.

The splritualists.
A spiritualist convention held Its sit
tipgs in Troy, n. Y, during last week.
We quote one incident of the proceedings.
Something was said about Mormonism-or
one man having a plurality of wives:
"At this DR.. Gardner, of Boston, filled
with wrath, and impatient Of the darkness
of his lcsS.favored fellow-mortals, broke
in: Il would like to know what this ad-
dress has to do with Mormonism. I would
receive an address from the lower depths
of he'll. [Applause.l If you want to erect
standard of morality for spirituaistss,
where are you going to begin? 1 don't
care if man has thousand wives; it's
none of my business. Let him take the
responsibiltty under the law. Let us make
each our own standard and none other
Frantic demonstrations of approval fol-
lowed this Anacharsis ClootZ, who pcrsplr-
ingly retired, wagging sagacious lnslnuaClon
from his oracular head. The buzz OF ad-
miration over, the sentiments had scarcely
subsidized when the rcddcst Radical OF them
all, one L. S. Wheeler, came upon the
scene. breathing fire and fury against the
established order Of things. Six or seven
years ago. said this fearless man, 'SplrlIu.
alistS had no moral sense now the lIght OF
reason has dawncd upon thcm.' EXpe-
dicncy.' continued the speaker, with cheer
iul incohcrence, 6 is morality. Show me
that which is good for men and women, and
l will show you that which is moral. Ii
you don't like to say that eXpediency IS
morality, say that morality is expedient.
When T.. S. Wheeler does wrong +. S!
Wheeler meets him and gives him hell.
Anything that hurts is wicked. l have
got through paying the slightest Difference to
the Legislatures and the laws they make. L
shall never have policeman's hand right.
cously laid upon me, because shall
never feel like offending against just law.
Law abiding men have cursed the earth
and crushed the pulSations Of freemen.
Down with law, down with institutions,
down with Governments, up with men and
women, and down with men-made enact
mcntS. We have taken that stand, and the
women who are not ready are CoWardS.
We mean rebellion. We've got nothing TO
do with Utah. Don't let us throw stones
at the Mormons when the windows OF al
most every house in New England are
open. If Mr.. Good wants to make an earn
est protest let him turn his attention 10
Newark, in his own State, where men are
murdered. DR.. Gardner has said that he
would receive an address from the lowest
more readily if the devil himself brought
it, Indescribablc manifestations OF enthu-
siaSm rewarded the more revolutionary
sentiments, and the orator was regarded
with admiring lervor by the rinslcted Sis
tcrhood welded to the cause. Another
invocation of astounding imagery lol.
lowed, and the first session was adJoured.'
This was ms sensible and decorous as most
that took place in the assemblase. If we
say such convention as this, with its mad
| men and knaves, never was held in the
| South, we but state fact; and il we ado
that the South produces no such people
we state another fact that cannot he de
MED; and both Of which facts arc worthy o
reflection.
Mrs. VICTORIA &. Woodruff. the stock
broker, claims to be spiritual medium
inspired by the shade of DEAosTnENEs
Mrs. Woodruff appeared before this Con
rention on the 14th inst. The New Yorl
Tribune gives report of her remarks:
"From infancy she had been, she mur
INJURED, favored with heavenly yisions,' ant
now, in her perfect maturity, she was az
humble advocate Of the beautiful doctrine
of spirituaIism. All her hopes tor the fu
ture were founded on this great mirror 0
humanity. At time when Il wicked worlc
was set against her she tcarfully thanked
this noble body for extending to her tho
hand of unrescrycd fellowship. This
brought her TO her main theme, and after
the usual gasping, eye closing,and maniaca
cIutchipgs, she 'had the spirit strong
enough TO enlighten the world on ANTE
Natal Influences, or the Rights of Chill
drcn.' On this subject the speaker bcgar
at the beginning OF things, and made use o
all the available clinical literature that one
ordinary woman could charge her mine
with"
The summary of her remarks, says the
Tribune, means that delicate young girls
and boys must he informed OF all the guilty
practices which an old-tashioned system
thought it wise to keep vigorously from tht
young. 1t adds:
: "The address was insufferably long ant
tedious, and the reputation of Dcmosthene
is forever ruined in Troy. Perhaps, to eN
plain the falling off from the Greeks elo
quent periods, the statement was made by
one inspired that the spirits OF Henry Z
Wright and John Pierpont were seen hov'
ering over the speaker lis she delivered th'
oracle"