I saw the report of the proceedings on the first day of the Convention in two Utica daily papers.  I quote from the Utica Morning Herald, September 11th, 1858, the following passage regarding my first interference, as follows:  “at the conclusion of Mr. Davis’ lengthy harangue, a German arose and said, he hopes that those who opens the meetings, speaks no more as twenty minutes, or not!  I have prepared a speech on the root of all evil that will not dake so mooch dime as the friends who have speak!” The devil, that means calumniator, by whom this reporter was so possessed, that he knew neither orthography nor grammar, was not so bad as the devil, by whom the evening ‘Telegraph’ was possessed.  He, in the service of the heads of the Convention, calls me “the member from Germany,” also “the teutonic individual,” and what he reports, he so reports for the benefit of the infernal league according to the wishes of mediums of lying spirits, that I had to write much if I would explain the cunning malice, which is comprehended in the misrepresentations and lies in regard to the exertions which I made to move the “Philanthropic Convention” to an investigation of my written documents showing that which is first necessary to overcome evil with good.  But here not being room, I quote only the following passage, which the Telegraph has published as my saying:  “I knew Don Ke Shott; some call him Don Quixote, but I call him Don Ke Shott.  I can tell you all about him.”

Mediums of lying and destroying spirits have been brought to that Convention from the Cities of New-York, Boston and many other places of several States.  To deliver those slaves from their tyrants, I mentioned, that at my last attendance of a public meeting of spiritualists in New-York a female medium was seized by a terrible devil who declared, that I was “Judas Iscariot[M], an emissary from the Pope, a Jesuit,” although after my having been from A.D. 1819, till 1838 a Roman Catholic Priest, I was working since the year 1838, according to my mission, with great zeal for the abolition of all kinds of Popery.  On this account I am abused and persecuted not only by the agents of the grand Pope of Rome, but also by such small Popes, as have been assembled in said “Philanthropic Convention” as well as by their reporters.  I mentioned in my address, that the lying spirit who said through the female medium, that I am a “Judas Iscariot[M], a Jesuit, an emissary from the Pope,” did confess then, that he is “Don Quixote Thomas Paine.”  But that my remark was then so terribly abused, as the above quoted passage testifies.  Lying spirits are supported by speakers and by editors of newspapers.

The reader should recollect what I said above regarding Henry C. Wright’s assisting his colleague interrupting my speech.  The Herald reports it, as follows:  “Mr. Wright finally said he had known Smollnikar for some time, he was a very worthy man, but the Convention could not understand him when he tried to speak English.”  Smollnikar—­“They have ears and will not hear, they have eyes and will not see.”