The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-06-29
THE FOLLY OF sP1RITUALIsM.

III klt IsEApEh Vi ytSltIudy tllolt
was a telegraphic report of a marriage
in the spiritual world Of a daughter Of
Col. Eaton to a son of ex-President
Pierce. The bride had died in infancy
thirty years ago and the groom sud-
denly bid farewell forever to tops and
marbles and Kites in his youth and
SCARED to Heaven.
OF all the follies and idiotic nom
sense that have blackened the enlight-
ened pages of the nineteenth century,.
spiritualism is the chief. 1t is q cry
ing, burning shame that so many men
of apparently sound mind and highly
their reason as to believe in the excess
siye idiocy of spirits lowering about the
world and Undertaking. at the behest
of some travelling mountebank, cooped
up in a cabinet but little bigger than a
fashionable band box.
We have seen men who stand high IN
the profession of law; men Of letters,
who have achieved eminence; mer-
Cli2iii5 hOtGd " tliClL hCdltu IL Dusl-
ness capacity; and all blind believers in
the most glaring humbug of the age,
spiritualism. The writer has attended
seances with some Of these men, and
having once read a work expos
ing so-called spiritualism, was readily
enabled to detect and explain the tricks
which the imposter of a ''medium"
pronounced as spiritual manifesto
tions." Not only that, but we have
given private exhibitions to these per-
son in order to demonstrate that Jug
glery was the true name for spiritual
manifestations. Yet upon performing
the identical feats Of the medium, we
were told that what we had done was
truly jugglery-"a skillful imitation of
the work of the spirits.u Here the
fact was again made plain that when
men once follow the igais fatuus of spir-
itualism they lose their reason and be-
come, for all practical purposes, insane
On the subjects We firmly believe the
day will come when hospitals will
be established for the purpose
of curing those afflicted with the mala-
dy of spiritualism. Speed the day!
Notwithstanding the fact that DR..
Slade, Katie King, the Eddy brothers,
and many other professional mediums
have been again and again exposed, and
their CHASTITY frauds stripped of quay
aft ira aud naradad noEad hafOro fhn
world, men will continue to believe in
that which hasn't even the substance
of thought. Airy nothingness mas
querades before their distorted and dis
eased imagination, and they picture
forms and matter and real things.
But Of all the idIotic, unreasonable,
foolish, baseless, and damnable follies
of supposed intelligent beings, that of
the spiritual marriage in Leavenworth
is certainly the browning one. The
idea Of spirits getting married on earth
is surely enough to consign a believer
to the mad house; it would seem i'm
possible to exceed the lunacy of that
folly. But the Leavenworth lunatics
have themselves piled Ossa on Pelion,
by holding that spirits grow in Heaven.
That is, ar infant dying on earth, con-
tinues to grow in Heavens Let parents,
who have lost an infant boy years and
years ago picture their darling as a full
grown and bearded man, Undertaking
in some obscure city for the e%difcation
of a handful Of crazy beings, and engage
ing in marriage! Away with such
trashl 1t carries its own condemnation
on its face. Then contemplate the su-
preme Stiffness Of angels who have been
such for thirty years suddenly coming
to earth and being arrayed in the gor-
geous maniicence of modern fashiona-
BILE fnery. Think upon the spectacle
of educated lunatics spreading fine food
for an angelic bride and bridegroom,
and then say that the heather Chinese
are more silly in placing food on the
graves of their newly buried friends.
But enoughl Language palsies in the
effort to properly characterize and con-
denim those spiritualists of Leaven-
worth. They are as wild in their theo-
ries and foolish in their acts as the
second adventists nf Pocasset, Massa-
chusetts. They are simply refined
Fakirs; educated heather; free pagans.
They reverse the learning of the centu-
ries and embrace the widest imagin-
ings of minds gone mad.