The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-06-13
rnOM MECIsANrCsvrLLE.
The recent Debate on Spiritual
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From MECHANICSy1LLE.
The recent Debate on spiritual
The following letter, which explains
itself, was written in reply to an ar
ticle attacking the personal character
Of Mr.. Leland, the anti-spiritualist
champion in the recent debate at
Mechanicsville. The same article to
which this communication excerpts
was sent to US for publication, but
not seeing the propriety Of allowing
. stranger to us to use our columns to
make personal attack upon another
stranger, it was refused admission.
The Cedar Post, and another county
paper, permitted the assault, and the
following reply, after having been re-
fused the same columns which perpe-
trated the injustice, Is sent to u.s.
En-. An.
y M ElsIg6 n Z receht number
of your papcr SAM m artinla fran
s. Young which / think deserves
reply on account Of its injustice, yet
q man that will make light Of the BIZ
BILE and the God Of the Bible, ought
not to be noticed. But for the bene-
fit Of some who might feel concerned,
/ write in regard to the Crswfords-
vile and Mechanicsville debates. II
is fortunate for Mr.. Young that peo-
pie see through different glasses, as
he supposes that Mr.. Overton saw
through glasses Of . different color in
looking at the Charlottesville debate.
It may be possible that Mr.. Overton
may have misrepresented the matter.
/ am not acquainted with him, but
we will say this, that as . gentleman.
he has risked q great deal on his rep
utation to throw before the public
broad cast falsehood, but it is
probable that it is false only to few
individuals that see through the same
glasses with Mr.. Young. In refer
ence to the Mechanicsville debate, /
suppose that Mr.. Young looks upon
Mechanicsville and inhabitants
through the same glasses that he and
his friends look upon the Crawfords-
vile debate. May be we had better
look through the Chicago r. ?. Jour-
nal at the matter then we might all
see it as the Spiritualists see it, and
not rely on m eye Witness as Mr..
Overton wss.
Mr.. Leland's character is said by
the Spirituslists 70 be very bad, and
il may be so for Ill we know, but of
one thing we are sure, his character
was attacked in . very ungentleman-
~ manner, and suggest to his calum-
niators that the best evidence they
could produce to substantiatc their
assertions would be the records Of the
court. 1t seems very strange that
Spiritualists knowing him to be SO
bad man, and ct the same time so
anxious TO meet only honorable OPP
ponents" would accept him as an OPP
ponent and then complain that his
character for truth and veracity was
bad in consequence Of having signed
libel eight years ago-which, if
true ct all, occurred while he was q
Spiritualist and is only another evil
dence of the pernicious influence Of
the institution. But that il was only
charged after the close Of the discus
sion a.ld Mr.. Leland gone ID evidence
that the victory gained by Leland was
complete, and is so considered even
by his opposers, hence the effort to
lessen its influence by this oowardly
injustice, resort worthy only Of
those wallowing in the malicious at-
mospherc Of modern Spiritualism.
Mr.. Hull had pledged himself to-
prove that Modern Spiritualism wss
better calculated to fnoralise and ele-
yate mankind than the Bible, and un-
less we looked through the wrong
glasses he never introduced the 6rst
shadow Of proof TO our understanding.
One thing strangein Mr.. Huli's effort,
was to try TO prove his position by
the Bible and then turn round and
ridicule and make sport Of the Bible
and God.
Nj. Leland Is charged with making
use Of immoral language in the dis-
cuss;on BY reading c1tracts from
Spiritualist wfitsrs, He refused To-
read so4e things for tho reason that
they were tao ridiculous. If the
language was immoral, Spiritualism
is responsible for it and NOT Mr.. Lee
land. Il is said in the Press Of May
31st that Hull challenged Leland to
name ! single Frce-lovcr' among the
Spiritualists which he failed to do
And I think that be was not afraid of
having to sign libel from the fact
that be showed Mrs WoOdhun Has
one from her own writings, and also
Others 70 my understanding, ard wheA'
you lind ons, yoa 6ad ~ q ~ sainei
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