The American patriot., 1855-04-21
THE sLANDERER,

The slanderer is pest, a disgrace, an incu
bus to society, that should be subjected to a
slow cauterization, and then Topped off like
excrescence Like the viper, he
leaves shining trail in his wake. Like ta-
rantula, he weaves thread of candor with
soeb Of wiles, or with all the kind mendacity Of
hints, whispers forth his tale, that, "like the
fabling Nile, no fountain knows" The dead
ny, even the dead-over whose pale sheeted
forms sleeps the dark sleep no vcnomed tongue
can wake, and whose pale lips have then no
voice to plead, are subjected to the scandalous
attack Of the slanderer-
"Who wears mask that Gorgon would disown,
cheek Of parchment, and an eye Of stone"
think it is Pollock who says the slanderer
is the foulest whelp Of sin, whose tongue was
set on fire in he'll, and whose legs were faint
with haste to propagate the lie his soul had
framed.
"He has lip of lies, face formed to conceal,
There is no animal despise more than these
moths and scrays Of society, the malicious cen
"These mvenous fishes, who follow only in the
wake
Of great ships, because, perchance, they're great"
o, who would disarrange all society with
their false lap-wing cries The slanderer makes
few direct charges and assertions. His long,
envious fingers point to no certain locality.
He has an inimitable shrug Of the shoulders,
can give peculiar glances,
"Or convey libel by frown,
Or wink reputation down."
He seems to glory in the misery he entails.
The innocent wear the foulest impress of his
smutty palm, and a soul pure as "Arctic snow,
twice dotted, by the northern blast" through
his warped and discolored glasses wears
notified hue.
"a whisper broke the air.
soft, light tone, and low
Yet barhed with shame and woe
Nor might only perish there,
Nor further go!
All, me {! quick and eager ear
Caught up the little meaning sound;
Another voice then breathed it clear
And SO it wandered round
From ear to lip, from lip to ear,
Until it reached gentle heart,
And that-t brOke!"
Vile wretch! ruiner of fair innocence by
foul SANDERS, in thine own dark, raven pumed
soul-distillcd-
Bl~sh-if of honest blood drop remains
To steal its way along thy veins!
Blush-if the bronze long hardened on tl,y cheek
Has left one spot rhere that poor drop can speak n
A GREEK BEAuTY.-An officer, who was
wounded at 1nkermann, having gone to a
Greek village for health, writes thus of a Greek
disconsolate family:
l tried to console them with the idea OF
meeting their friends; but they were entirely
overcome with the thought of leaving their
homes in the hands of strangers, and having
to seek others, where they knew not, for they
were poor, and the poor make no new friends
One young girl, the youngest of four sisters,
Of whom three were married to soldiers in the
Russian army, was the only one who tried to
keep up the spirits of the rest The whole
family were very beautiful but she was Of the
transcendent beauty which one rarely Sees
except in statues or paintings. Sho led an old
creature, past ninety, almost imbccile, who
followed from instinct, as it were, and walked
along, trying to sing some of the songs of her
country to cheer up the rest. Poor girl! had
| belonged to any profession other than my
own, my dear --, would have had a wife
beautiful as the first flowers of spring, with
eyes like gazelle, and face and figure re-
scmbling that of Hero or Helen of old.
pressed what coin had into her hand as pu
her into the boat, so that she and her sister.
at least might not want for bread on landing
and rode back to my tent well contented will
what had done, and knew the good Goo
who takes care of little fishes will not forge
it, and will give me a lift in rough places wher
l may require it, as the saying is in India.
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A VERDANT GROoMsMAN.-On no occasion dt
people seem more prone to commit blunder
than at wedding. The following incident &C
tually happened in a neighboring town:
In the midst Of crowd of witnesses, tn,
clergyman had just completed the interesting
ceremony which binds in the silver bonds o
wedlock two willing hearts, and stretched fortl
his hands to implore the blessings of Heaye,