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A Medicine of the last century, compounded of a variety of Drastic, Acrid Drugs, and Ardent Spirits : administered in a great variety of cases, which produced immense evil. TO WHICH IS SUBJOINED, THE INFERNAL TRIUMVIRATE OPPRESSION, DEPRESSION, AND EXTORTION. " Troy soon shall wake, with one avenging blow " Crush the dire author of its country's woe." ) thou man of God, there is death in the pot. 2d Kings, iv. 40 He that uttereth slander is a fool. Pratt. X. IS. It is the glory of Cod to conceal a tiling. Prov. xxv. 2. Thou shalt not go up unci down as a tale-bearer. Lev. xix. 16. (ovPedler, in the Hebrew,- that h i.c i y. The Devil's Pedler. Vi A LOVER OF MERCY REJOICING OVER JUDGMENT PHILADELPHIA: 1TBLISHED FOB. THE BENEFIT OF THE PCBC'JASEK. J. H. Cunningham, Printer. Tsir." « 5 c,S^ LC Control Number ^P96 031510 TO THE READER. THE merciless breakers of braised reeds, who outknave the Priest and the Levite, in the GospeI 5 by not only passing the unfortunates, but also by giving them a louring glance, a bad name, or a kick, are humbly requested to apply at his Satanic Majesty's Council Chamber for a license to inform against Swindlers, Drunkards, and other criminals, contrary to Law and Gospel, as we are determined to stretch the string of charity, rather than act upon presumptive, circumstancial evidence, or exparte testimony. " The voice of the country has deci- ded, irrevocably, in the condemnation of CAU- CUSES — that scheme of concealed intrigue and corruption has been unfolded, and called forth the execration of all men who feel a reverence for the principles of the revolution." We contend against the Hydra-headed monster, Slander, in this book, by law and testimony, reason and revelation, be- seeching the people and the elders, to enact simple and distinct statutes, denned and limited, under the purview of which, the court and jury may find the slandering felon guilty. To restrain slander, and prevent our civil and religious rights from being prejudiced, and taken away by tyranny, u Experience had taught the founders of our government, that freedom had been destroyed through the want of adequate checks upon men of ambitious or desperate de- sires; hence, in modern times, the maocim has been universally recognized by the friends of hu- man liberty, that governments should be founded and written in well digested forms, and not expo- sed to the caprice or passions of men." To this luminous extract, we shall only add, a government of Scripture, and not of Priests or Levites. There- fore, to the law and the testimony we go ; if they speak not according to this, from the cottage to the altar, and the throne, it is because there is no light in them : A part of which law is, Love thy neigh- bour as thyself — Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them ; for this (and not lawless slander) is (the sum of) the law and the Prophets, Matt, vii. 12. PREFACE. MEN of Israel, help by all your energies, plunge the bucket of faith into the perennial, heal- ing, inexhaustible river of life and love, which runs through the midst of the paradise of God, and, in united phalanx, pour forth into the fire engine of Christian charity, the unceasing supply ; work with faithful hearts, peaceable, stedfast, yielding, and persevering hands, until, by keeping down the fire of hell, which works the large boiler of the devil's steam-boat, Slander; the hot burning atmosphere of defamation shall become more dense, the ma- chinery loose its propelling power, the buckets of clattering backbiting, cease to disturb and poison the waters of social happiness, and Lucifer's ped~ lers no longer scald, nor be scalded by the high- rectified steam which bursts forth from his original manufacturing conclave in hell, which has, here- tofore, and, until now, been productive of a world of iniquity. Our object is to dissect the hypocritical defa- mer, who covers malice with the silver dross of pretended necessity, ambition by the guise of strict severity, while many maintain a holy, stiff, frigid distance, to keep up self-conceited sanctification, under the whining fear of injuring men who are better, politer, and wiser than themselves, bv ho- nest familiarity. We hope to make manifest, that an Hiera Pier a bitterness > that is to say, an holy bitterness, (for that acrid, drastic drug, Hiera Piera, means holy bitter ;) is not the wisdom from above, but, on the contrary, is the bilge water of com- mercial malignity, the regurgitating bile of Abad- don's implacable gall-bladder. Let none attempt to pass under the guns of mount Zion with impunity, by virtue of havdng the colours of Jesus Christ flying, while they carry on a war in disguise against the royal law of love, and a smuggling trade with the church of the ma- lignants, under a secret license from theldevil, with the poor pitiful apologies that their fathers were plain spoken men, and to punish the wicked, when the truth of the matter is, that we can prove them to be of their father, the devil, while they seem to be religious, but bridle not their tongues, nor libel- ing pens. We shall also take notice of the cases of many who, very politely, very religiously, and very like a fox, compliment you, advise you, pray for, and slander you, with a " Lord pity him, he is the worst foe to himself," with a hypocritical smile and stab, professing that they always put their friends upon their guard against horse stealers, swindlers, pickpockets, drunkards, house burners and break- ers ; when, at the same time, they are men- steal- ers, character fiichers, backbiting pickthanks for slandering pickpockets ; are murderers of more bodies and souls than all the Caesars and other butchers in the universe, both civil and religious. Millions of psalm-singing, doggerel, canting puff- balls, who deny that it is slander to circulate the crimes of individuals, while they ball out, u I tell nothing but the truth," will find their cases attend- ed to, and their slanderous truths proved. to foe as far from God's truth as the declaration of a drunken man is from republicanism, when he boasts that he is for equal liberty, and gives no further proof of it than that of throwing up strong whigs in spue and vomit, and treading in the dust the rights of man. Thousands of cowardly, raspish roarers, and cacklers, profess to be so innocent of what they say against the absent, that you never can fathom their hearts until, upon approaching their slandering mansions, you hear them kaw like crows, "there she comes" when, upon the signal, they all fly off, as those carnivorous fowls, to their respective hid- ing places. This also shall be delineated. Hecatombs upon Hecatombs, of Luciferian trading companies, accompanied by their officers, and distributing post officers, pedlers, smugglers, and post-riders, in and out of the churches, are es- tablishing, as far as their influence can have effect, the detestable doctrine of exparte evidence, that is, hearing one side only, which opposes the first rule of legal evidence, that " It is a settled rule of law, that no evidence is to be given against a prisoner but in his presence." 2 Hawk. p. c. ca. 46, which axiom of law is founded on this principle, namely, " That the opposite party is not present to have the benefit of a cross examination." 5 Mod. 165. M : Nally upon Evidencf, p. 10. And although the sixth rule of evidence is, that "one who can only witness by hearsay, is not a .lawful accuser within any statute." 2 Hawk. p. c. ca. 25. And, that the abominable and illegal doctrine, or, as sir Edward < Coke terms it, the strange conceit, that one may be an accuser by hearsay, was utterly denied by the j ustices in Lord 8 Lumley's case, Hill, 14. Eliz. 3. co. 15, M'Nally upon Evidence, p. 17. Although, we repeat, the above is the language of justice, yet despots, not having God before their eyes, act by virtue of de- cisions and commissions issued from Appollyon's four courts of calumny ; this also shall be consi- dered. We read in Peake upon Evidence, p. 15, " The law never gives credit to any one, however high his rank, or pure his morals, but always requires the sanction of an oath." Yet millions believe, judge, and sentence millions to tortures, imprison- ments, confiscations, banishments, and death it- self. Yea, alas ! tell it not in Gath : we have done something like it, even at the horns of the altar ! These things shall be noticed. "A pardoned man is not guilty; his crime is purged ; but merely for the reproach of it, it shall not be put upon him to answer a question whereon he will nafe be forced to disgrace himself." Lord C. Justice Treby. Peake. 141. Yet, nevertheless, we, whose mercy is called upon to glory over jus- tice, work old Satan's cunning, question-asking pump, as though the spiritual ark was sinking for want of it. This, also, should be touched upon. " It frequently happens that persons are made defendants with others, for the mere purpose of excluding their testimony." Peake, 159. It also has been often practised in Asia, Africa, Europe, and America, in the churches and courts where such cunning usurpations should not be suffered. u In an information against the wife for adulte- ry, the husband cannot be a witness." State vs. Gardner, 1. Root, 485. " The rule of law does not merely prevent a husband or wife from giving evidence, for the purpose of criminating each other ; it goes much further, and precludes any evidence which has the least tendency to it." Lord Justice Hardwich said, " The reason why the law will not suffer the wife to be a witness for or against her husband is, to preserve the peace of the families, and, there- fore, I shall never encourage such a consent." Peake, p. 179, 180. How contrary to this pru- dent, scriptural, and legal doctrine, has been the current coin of thousands, even in"the bosom of the sanctuary, we leave to the judgment of the tru- ly prudent and experienced. O ! what villainies go down under the garb of power ! Partial or interested sheriffs are not competent to empannel a jury : yet thousands of the clergy, in ancient and modern times, have produced, and still re-produce multifarious oppression, by such illegal, partial conduct, to the great scandal of re- ligion. Witnesses are not allowed to be compe- tent who are propter delictum, that is, guilty of certain crimes; still, however, any ruffian, will serve the turn of an open-mouthed, hard-hearted, humped-up railer, with a beam in his eye ! Jurors must not he propter defectum, defective in under- standing ; yet weak heads and narrow hearts often serve the turn of ambitious judges better than long heads or strong heads. Jurors are not allowed to be propter affectum, that is, given tojbias or par- tiality ; nevertheless, those are ahv^r^ the choice of the judges who form the devil's council chanv ber of injustice, conclave, and exparte defamation. Jurors must be omni exceptione majores ; that is to say, above or beyond all exception. This is what we ought to aim at, namely, to lay aside partiality and tyranny. If a juror mentions any thing against the accused, which was not said 10 in open court, it vitiates and destroys the verdict ; yet thousands of sacerdotal conclaves in caucuses, throughout the four quarters of the globe, have al- lowed the introduction of isuch private villainies, without even admitting the person accused to have any hand in the oppressive ecclesiastical laws, un- der the purview of which they were to have their civil and religious rights administered, prejudiced, and taken away, or even to appear, as did the hea- then Romans, by impartial impleadings face to face. This is lording it over God's heritage with a witness, with no better satisfaction, check, or re- muneration, than the inflammatory haughty answer, that " we are sent of God to rule over you." Upon this point the church has been much harrassed ; we do not pretend, in the present work, to enter upon what is too heavy for us, we mean church government ; but just to give some hints to those whom Paul calls novices, that is, " young plants," "puffed up" like bladders, "puff balls." Although not learned, we may receive help to the meaning of the word Slander, in two or three languages ; shewing in association some law au- thorities. With diffidence we object to the pre- sent mode of punishing slanderers, and would re- commend statute law well defined by the legisla- ture; that when the slanderer of malice and felony committed gkjIs as great as other murderers and thieves; he ^should, when it was legally proved upon him, suffer equal punishment ; still leaving it with the jury under the direction of the court to find guilty, according to the intention of the legis- lature. We therefore have drawn up a number of indictments, as though such laws were actually in force ; the objections to such statutes, from the dif- ficulty of the mode of proof, and the number of 11 guilty persons, should be no objection to such acts ; for, in the first place, the law in Virginia of 1810, to punish whoever had a slandering hand in a duel, had a happy and immediate effect, to break up the fire and brimstone consequences of those vallainies; and secondly, the longer the legislature put off pun- ishing the slandering thief and murderer, the more will the iniquity increase in the community, until, as in the reign of Antoninus Pius and Commodus, the malicious state informer or prosecutor is severe- ly punished, even with death, one of whom had his legs broken by Perennius, in the reign of Commo- dus, for informing against that great philosophical christian, Apollonius. You ask why we harp so much upon one string ? We answer, because all men are set as spies up- on each other ; because the preachers have harped upon the other strings till they have made the slan- dering s r ring too strong for the rest ; because pop- ulation languishes under slander; because the states and the churches are poisoned therewith ; the winds putrescent thereby ; fatherless, widows, slaves, or- phans, and strangers, with mechanics, merchants, sailors, farmers, and preachers, are ruined by it : officers upon sea and land are broke and kept back from promotion by its fangs ; and men in power belied by the envious, ambitious, and avaricious ; because St. James wrote almost a^ his epistle against it ; Moses and the prophets, Jesus Christ and the apostles called it stealing, foolishness, hy- pocrisy, lies, murder, and a world of iniquity ! Why does a citizen run with a bucket ? A house, a city is on fire ; and shall we stand all the day idle, and see this Canaan turned into an acel- dema, a field of blood, of fire, the fire of hell, and not run with our buckets of law and Gospel ? 12 Let us form the line, and pass the water of Chris- tian faith, love, meekness, gentleness, and unwea- ried diligence, until the fire engine of charity, fed from the water of life, shall have extinguished the electric daemon, slander, and thrown his infernal ri- der, the complicated steam boat of political, mecha- nical, mercantile, incontinent, sensual, and all reli- gious illicit smuggling, trading, and pedling, into the shoreless, bottomless sea of the love of God and man ; so shall there be a great calm. 13 Commonwealth of Israel, to wit : The law and the testimony, Moses and the prophets, Messiah and the apostles, do present for Jehovah, the King, the Lord of Hosts, that, where- as, hard-hearted malignant, envious invidious, co- vetous lovemoney, ambitious terrorum, vain dou- ble-tongue, hypocritical beam eye, young inflated novice, worrying Lord over God's heritage ; with a troop of church gossippers and state lick plates, of the church of the malignants, all being devil's pedlers and postriders in the circulation of slanders not having the fear of God before their eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, at every favorable opportunity, in the reign of the King, whose name is the Lord of Hosts, King, defender of the faith that works by love, and plays no slandering slight of hand ; in this reign, we repeat, in the parish of political shuffling, and religious scuffling, and in all the wards and ward- robes of whispering, backbiting, and hating of God, as aforesaid, and with force of arms, of railing and controversial preaching, in the places aforesaid, fe- loniously, and of their aforethought malice, in and upon sincere lover, one flesh, husband and wife, disappointed, broken heart, sinking Peter, rising Corinthian, weeping and returning prodigal, for- given David, sobbing and grateful Magdalene, then and there, in the peace of Gfcd, and of the said Lord of Hosts, the only lawful King then be- ing, made an assault, and slandering church af- fray, and the aforesaid novices, lords, whiflers, groaners, controversial priests, hard-hearted Le- vites, bruisers of broken reeds, whisperers, state and church receivers, tea, wine, grog, snuffing and smoking slanderers, double-tongued, high-eyed, B 14 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 pu- trescent winds, producing vipers, firebrands, ar- rows, 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 ma- lice aforethought, did shoot off and discharge ; and the aforesaid slanderers, with the destructive hell- iire 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, mer- chants, and returning prodigals, then and there fe- loniously struck, giving to the said returners, bro- ken hearted, strangers, bound boys and girls, preachers, slaves, unfortunate boys and girls, bro- ken 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 Tho- mas, restored David, Peter, and the Corinthian, ten thousand mortal wounds of the breadth of pro- perty, character, happiness, and appetite, and the length of life and eternal damnation, of which mor- tal wounds inflicted by the aforesaid novices, can- ters, puff balls, drunken railers, religious gossip- pers, church receivers, revengeful backbiters, and 15 seven-times Peters ; the aforesaid good, bad, and indifferent sufferers slowly, instantly, and eternally died. And that Poll Plot, Bill Blot, Sail Saucy- face, Prating Partnership, Psalmsinging Longface, Parson Pumpall, prying peeper, white-eyed watch- er, leader lackey boy, widow wildjaw, riggling runner, tea talkative, bear-mouthed burlesque, lickpiate 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 far- rago fulminators, to the felony and murderers afore- said, in form aforesaid, to be done and committed ; and so the aforesaid iterating and reiterating slan- derers, the aforesaid slighted stranger, weeping widow, blackened backslider, returning and zea- lous Peter, poor prodigal, and weeping Mary afore- said, in the parish of cup evidence, and wards of church conclave causes, bar browbeat, coquette in- grate, pulpit inflate, and slowjawed long hate afore- said, in manner and form aforesaid, feloniously, vo- luntarily, and of their forethought malice, slighted, slandered, received slanders against, robbed, mur- dered, and brought to damnation, the name, fame, appetite, happiness, peace, property, reason, imagi- nation, 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 blackvomit, bruise-reed butcher, browbeating bigot, twittering fidget, jabbering 16 jackal], 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, swear- ers 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 mili- tary supplanting, in the county of licensed bespat- tering of infamous memory, not having God be- fore their eyes, but being seduced by the instiga- tion 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, dogge- rel 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 righte- ousness, 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 backbit- ers, 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 ask- ing Foxite questions, in conclaves, by outknaves, whip slaves, jobbers, winkers, tipplers, gluttons, sycophants, church and state bloodhounds as afore- said, to the felonies and murders aforesaid, in man- ner and in form aforesaid, to be done and commit- ted maliciously, feloniously, voluntarily, and of their forethought malice, did incite, move, abet, counsel, and procure against the peace of families, 17 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, Part- nership Pompous, Bishop Bigthought, Deacon Dreadnaught, Elder Redhot, conclave inquisition, civilian caval, flinthearted steel tongue, and bell clatter ding dong, including a long grilling, grunt- ing, hemming, canting, covetous train of insidious vulpine flatterers, late of the parish of Political supplanting, and in the county of Gospel gossip- ping, 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 gos- sipping 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, swallow- ed up of over much sorrow, suffering strangers, broken hearted widows, insane lovers, sinking merchants and mechanics, them the aforesaid rough sly receivers, conde timers, church and state officers, gossippers, swindlers, oppressors, &c. did then and there in Asia, Africa, Europe, and America, feloniously, and of their malice afore- thought, receive, aid, and comfort the said slan- derers, against the peace of the said Lord our righteous?