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:hacForImpositioa gr.Let thos*liftlie Ilor.ilt! of Progress.of 3Xr. Col- icive, bt j. I Trnfb beX 'Mb. Davis : You are, I believe, the friend | of truth, the enemy of imposition and de-nit. and a fearless advocate of rational faith. Assured of this, I wish, through your columns, to warn the public of the dishonest practices of one Colchester. who professes to have goblin writings on his arm, and to respond questions and, names written upon slips otw ill he apaper and rollrolled intoion “and npellets, withoutsaid questionjband names with liismg tural iv ope-at the haveeyes. This ainbiucxtrous fellow is rating in Boston, swindling fnWmw5 rate of one dollar for fifteen minut had three installments of this prestigwition, at an expense of four dollars; one sittiftg being protracted to the great length of thirty minutes.1 speak for myself only, when I say that 1 fully detected this impostor’s tricks, and am prepared to sustain the following statements :1. That this itinerating fellow writes the reputed goblin-wrilings that appear on hisAnswer: tiorleft arm, with his own kqvish right hand;'that they are produced in this way, and in no other.2. That he unrolls the paper pellet under the table, reads, and then answers them.3. That in no instance has he correctly answered a question till such reading had taken place, either while the party was writing the same, or after it wa4 rolled into a pellet and manipulated by him.4. That 1 have detected him in unrolling the pellets and in breaking the seal of a sealed envelope, in a manner past all doubt and misapprehension.5. That the table and the table-cover, which he invariably uses in his ambidextrous tricks, are indispensable to his business, and that he can no more do without them, or some equivalent objects to conceal his hands, than the juggler can dispense with his apparatus.6. That to delect this impostor, you have only to keep his fingers continually in sight. Cause him to place his hands on the table, and keep them there quietly, and there will be no goblin writings on his arm, and no answering of slip or pellet.7. That every attempt which 1 tuatle to procure the miraculous writings with his hands in sight, was an utter failure; and that when such characters were exhibited, they were written under the table, with a colored pencil.I can arrive at but one conclusion, and thatis, that said Colchester is an impostor and acheat, whose practices are calculated to inspire distrust of Phenomenal Spiritualism, and discourage a rational beliel in the guardianship of the souls of the dead.Friend Davis, I am an earnest man. I never visit reputed mediums with any but an honest purpose, and it is seldom indeed that I go after them. I went to the person above mentioned to see new and strange phenomena, and not to waste my time and pay my money lor sleight-of-hand performances. Life has higher meanings, and money better uses, lie deceived me knowingly and deliberately. Me will deceive others. My duty is plain. I cannot and will not be false to my convictions. The natural faith of (San revolts ut deception. The true religion of the soul arrays itself against untruth. There is no compromise be-1. It d. Graves, t implies h tianity.” within tl interior tl or the rev sential tri of heaven2. It is is necessa also may apy othei their uses eary with no! and I one ol the have prod we owe I his spirit6, 7. 8. scend to tl who is sc cannot cot ing-plaee‘J and 1( and consei material, \ stance is thematica! Pursue lli At atheis cannot the for how i .Still less ci term heap doctrine, t most raliot can dare Happy for Divine Mi closely anc curnatiou.Do as va that you i whatever ; home shar Stinging s again. Kt you least c of comfort starving si your hour lt;You are a pa no ram rolled befo You are its pages b with the hi
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New York Herald Progress
New York, New York, US
Sat, Dec 27, 1862
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