Note 43 — SECTION III.

This shews that this witness was not in the cellar, when the preceding sentence was uttered. They who were there, say that it was the Spectre who said, they must come down, and Mr. Blaisdel who added that they should be satisfied. Others tell us that the sentence was, “Come down in order, and you shall be satisfied.”

Make the worst of it; it was but innocent inaccuracy, like what is recorded of angels in the scriptures. Possibly the ghost did not foresee this confusion. Certain it is, that she constantly and strictly insisted upon order and solemnity, as indispensably requisite to her manifestations. After all, if the ghost has ever uttered one falsehood, or one false accusation, with the manifest design of injurious deception; or, if she has ever committed or ordered the commission of one crime; we must, without hesitation, condemn her as an evil angel. But then we must remember that her criminality should first be proved, not by our surmises or conjectures, but by substantial, plenary, and indubitable evidence.