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A MOB---POPULAR DELUSIONS. We have alluded, heretofore to the fact, that‘a Negro Doctor was’ practising an imposture in Cincinnati, fully equal to any in the days of witchcraft. ‘He practiced very much,’on the principle of necromancy. The friend of the patient usually brought a tumbler of water in which the finger of the sick had been dipped. — With this most efficient means of knowledge, (almost equal to the light of Electro-Magnetism) the learned doctor, , proceeded to disclose the hid den things in the life of the patient, after the manner of Animal Magnetism, next to describe the disease, and finally ‘the remedy. Numbers are said to have resorted to him, and some from distant quarters;some ‘persons of respectable condition, and supposed to have good sense. The doctor, from a low’ estate, had considera bly advanced his fortune; and among other mat ters, was building a brick house; when, by one unfortunate act he, fell under te bati at public displeasure. Two insane women (one , white, the other black) were placed under his care at his own horse. These women, by way of med ical treatment, head shamefully whipped and abused. The consequence was a great excite ment against him. He was arrested, placed in jail, and thn bailed out. At this crisis a mob took the affair into their hands, pulled down the house he was inhabiting, and destroyed his furniture. If the history of frail human nature did not present a multitude of such instances,it would be incredible that anyone in their senses, how ever,,small their understanding should have trusted in such a palpable impostor. Yet he had numerous disciples having full faith in his resto rative powers ! _ The mob is very nearly as absurd, to say no thing fot the illegality, as the imposture itself — This man practiced the grossest and vilest of im positions and insults on the public for a length of time—who denounced him? He cheated hun dreds—who complained of him? He was open to indictment at any moment—Who informed of ‘him? But, having been guilty’, of a more open and inhuman.’ quackery, he is, mobbed! It may be asked, will not the mob exalt’ ‘his reputation !— Will he not recover all he’, has fost from the rioters? Such scenes can create in a reflective mind no other than mournful sensations. Where is the boasted dignity of human nature? Sevens Pressure. —The Pennsylvania ‘pa pers state that, the ‘poor barns are’ proaning un der the’ loads, they have to bear, and some fear they will break !
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The Cincinnati Chronicle
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, Sep 29, 1838
Page 8
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Patrick P.
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