Spiritualism in Congress

Publishing Committee · BATTLE CREEK, MICH. · May 27, 1858

Spiritualism in Congress.

The correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, writes; "Hon. N. P. Talmage, formerly U. S. Senator and Governor of Wisconsin, in a letter defending Spiritualism from a recent attack upon it by Gen. Shields, intimates that a number of our present Senators are believers in the doctrine, and that the political history of 1860 will be greatly affected, if not controlled, by it. That the former assertion is entirely true, I happen to know; but that the latter will prove so, I prefer to entertain some doubt."

It is intimated in some quarters that the Republican Congressional caucuses held at Washington during the past winter on the Kansas question have all been under direction of the spirits.