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the planters' banner (franklin, attakapas co., lou.) 1849-1872 — spirit rapping

Date of account: Newspaper page published 1853-06-09
Location: franklin, louisiana, united states
Source: Chronicling America paranormal and anomalous-report excerpts
Reference: the planters' banner (franklin, attakapas co., lou.) 1849-1872 · 1853-06-09 · page 2
Rights: public_domain
Language: English OCR
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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A 1853-06-09 newspaper page contains wording relevant to “spirit rapping”. This is historical reporting or commentary preserved by the Library of Congress; it is not treated as verification that the described event occurred.

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... the United States Senate. The Spirit Rapping periodicals, and the persons who deal in this miserable delusion as a trade, will no doubt great ly rejoice over this new and distin guished discipline. We expect to be .n whose sanitv nobody particularly doubts, Who bas been a 'nited States Senator from the great State of New York, and a Governor of a North-Western Territory to boot, would not give in his adhesion to the "Spirits," unless they were Spirits." just as a well known Judge, on the bench, in this city, and another grave Senator from Rhode Island) have al ready been pointed to, triumphantly, as evidence that the learned," as well as the ignorant.

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