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The Daily Dispatch: May 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
Calling spirits. "I can call spirits from the vasty deep," Says Owen Glendower, when irritated by the alight regard Harry Percy was disposed to pay to his magical pretensions. "And so can I, and so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?" Was the very natural and pertinent answer of the dauntless and incredulous Northumbrian. It would avail little for the skeptic to ask such a question of the Yankee spirit rappers. Their spirits always come when called for in the regular way. To be sure they do not generally appear to have been greatly improved by their residence in the other world, so far as style and language is concerned. Shakespeare, for instance, having been summoned from his long home to dictate a play to some Yankee recording clerk, makes quite a botch of the thing, and Byron, Moore, and Scott have all, under the same circumstances, failed in a manner that would have greatly perplexed Murray and the Longmans. Nevertheless, they occasio