tossing-nosed railers, a certain hell-fire machine, called the Leviathan calumny, with two hundred millions of propelling steam boats, puffiing and bursting with double rectified secrets, which load the weeping, groaning, bleeding zephyrs, and putrescent winds, producing vipers, firebrands, arrows, and death, which they held in their right hands then, there, and every where, in and upon the aforesaid strangers, fatherless, widows, slaves, free colored people, preachers, men on trial, then and there feloniously, voluntarily, and of their malice aforethought, did shoot off and discharge; and the aforesaid slanderers, with the destructive hellfire defamations aforesaid, from the whispering railing guns, aforesaid, then and there shot off and discharged the aforesaid peepers, watchers, novices, puffers, raisers, receivers, and publishers, in and upon the left part of the breast and soul of them, the said orphans, widows, fatherless, preachers, strangers, broken and broken hearted lovers, merchants, and returning prodigals, then and there feloniously struck, giving to the said returners, broken hearted, strangers, bound boys and girls, preachers, slaves, unfortunate boys and girls, broken hearted husbands and wives, then and there with the leaden bullets of whispering aforesaid, out of the reviling guns aforesaid, then and there shot off and discharged in and upon the left part of the breast of them, the said Mary, doubting Thomas, restored David, Peter, and the Corinthian, ten thousand mortal wounds of the breadth of property, character, happiness, and appetite, and the length of life and eternal damnation, of which mortal wounds inflicted by the aforesaid novices, canters, puff balis, drunken railers, religious gossippers, church receivers, revengeful backbiters, and seven-times Peters; the aforesaid good, bad, and indifferent sufferers slowly, instantly, and eternally died. And that Poll Plot, Bill Blot, Sall Saucyface, Prating Partnership, Psalmsinging Longface, Parson Pumpall, prying peeper, white-eyed watcher, leader lackey boy, widow wildjaw, riggling runner, tea talkative, bear-mouthed burlesque, lickplate liar, and trumpeter telltale, feloniously and of their malice aforethought, then and there were present, aiding, assisting, abetting, comforting, and maintaining the aforesaid punners, praters, winkers, raisers, libellers, novices, slowjawed slanderers, Diotrephes's, lion faced lord's over God's heritage, altar-scraping asses, light tongued lasses, and farrago fulminators, to the felony and murderers aforesaid, in form aforesaid, to be done and committed; and so the aforesaid iterating and reiterating slanderers, the aforesaid slighted stranger, weeping widow, blackened backslider, returning and zealous Peter, poor prodigal, and weeping Mary aforesaid, in the parish of cup evidence, and wards of church conclave causes, bar browbeat, coquette ingrate, pulpit inflate, and slowjawed long hate aforesaid, in manner and form aforesaid, feloniously, vo. luntarily, and of their forethought malice, slighted, slandered, received slanders against, robbed, murdered, and brought to damnation, the name, fame, appetite, happiness, peace, property, reason, imagination, memory, judgment, life and soul of the aforesaid innocents, penitents, Mary's, Peter's, strangers, &c. against the peace of these United States, the commonwealth of Israel, the peace of the Lord God, gracious and merciful, the alpha and omega, his crown and dignity. And that one cholera morbus black vomit, bruise-reed butcher, browbeating bigot, twittering fidget, jabbering 1 jackall, despotic dryjaw, ever dropping long ear, judge watch mote, idle informer, search warrant blood hound, rough and smooth receive all; with a covey of political roarers, goarers, tearers, swearers and kidnappers, accompanied by a cloud of punners, runners, peepers, railers and retailers, late of the parish of church gossipping, bar, statehouse, political calumniating coxcombs, naval and military supplanting, in the county of licensed bespattering of infamous memory, not having God before their eyes, but being seduced by the instigation of the devil before the felonies and murders, aforesaid, by the aforesaid envious, malicious, talkative, twitterers, long ears, sharp eyes, tossing nosed, tea, grog, coffee, and wine bibbers, doggerel canters, whifflers, brawlers, blating goats, and braying asses, in manner and form aforesaid, done and committed, that is to say, on every interesting opportunity, in the reign of the Lord our righteousness, the only King acknowledged by these United States, King, defender of the injured, the helpless, stranger, slave, fatherless, widow, orphan, bound boy and girl, &c. The aforesaid backbiters, receivers, publishers, unjust condemners, and quivering cacklers, at the aforesaid parish of cup evidence, bar browbeat, and pulpit slander, in a world of iniquity, as aforesaid, and in the county of laughing, twisting, grinning, whispering, and asking Foxite questions, in conclaves, by outknaves, whip slaves, jobbers, winkers, tipplers, gluttons, sycophants, church and state bloodhounds as aforesaid, to the felonies and murders aforesaid, in man. ner and in form aforesaid, to be done and committed maliciously, feloniously, voluntarily, and of their forethought malice, did incite, move, abet, counsel, and procure against the peace of families, strangers, and helpless in state and church, and of the Lord God, gracious and merciful, who was, is, and is to come, his crown and dignity. And that political mitigate fine, Diotrephes Divine, Partnership Pompous, Bishop Bigthought, Deacon Dreadnaught, Elder Redhot, conclave inquisition, civilian caval, flinthearted steel tongue, and bell clatter ding dong, including a long grining, grunting, hemming, canting, covetous train of insidious vulpine flatterers, late of the parish of Political supplanting, and in the county of Gospel gossipping, all being hypocritical slanderers and devil's pedlers, well knowing the said offenders to have done and committed the said felonies, in manner and form aforesaid, afterwards, to wit, on every advantageous opportunity towards the four winds of heaven, and in all places, in the reign of the Lord of Sabbaoth, the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, at the parish and county of Gospel gossipping as aforesaid, with slandering force and backbiting arms, did assist in oppressing them, the said weeping and returning prodigals, restored backsliders, oppressed slaves, doubting Thomas's, rising Peters, poor hired girls and boys, bound orphans, true lovers, abashed Ephraims, swallowed up of over much sorrow, suffering strangers, broken hearted widows, insane lovers, sinking merchants and mechanics, them the aforesaid rough sly receivers, condemners, church and state officers, gossippers, swindlers, oppressors, &c. did then and there in Asia, Africa, Europe, and America, feloniously, and of their malice aforethought, receive, aid, and comfort the said slanderers, against the peace of the said Lord our righteousness, who was, is, and is to come, his crown and dignity. SLANDER. The following is from A. Clarke, L. L. D. upon Dæmons. "It appears there is but one DEVIL, who seems to be supreme, or head over all the rest. (The Doctor then gives his name in Greek, and observes that it) signifies an accuser, or slanderer. 1 Tim. 3. 11. 2 Tim. 3. 3. Tit. 2. 3. Perhaps Satan was called so, 1st. because he accused or slandered God in paradise, as averse from the increase of man's knowledge and happiness. Gen. 3. John 8. 44. And 2dly, because he is the accuser of men, Rev. xii. 9. 10. See also Job i. 2. The word comes from (Greek) through, and (the Greek) to cast or shoot, because of the influence of his evil suggestions; compared, Eph. vi. 16. to fiery darts; and thus it is nearly of the same meaning with (the Greek) he who pierces through.' Adam Clarke, L. L. D. Just so, his children pierce through. The Low Dutch word laster, s. slander, is calumny, lampoon. Lastermond, or foul-mouthed. Lasteren, v. to slander, reproach, defame, blaspheme. Lasterly, adj. and adv. reproachful, slanderous. |