Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1856-01-09
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THE SLANDERER.
RY MAnMAN

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Give me for ink, the yilest liquid mire,
A pen of Adder's TOOTH brain of fire;
Bay me with bulldogs chafe me with oppression
Rouse all my nature with worlds transgression
Thenwith your poison d fasehoods pierce me thro
And I'll describe the slande erer to YOU.
He is monster, hideous,, fell and dire
Begat in hell, Beelzebub his sire,
Sucked by envy, where vile serpents crawl,
His meat is poison. and his drink is gall
Cajoied by each vile passion of the race,
In black deceit he fills demons place.
The dark Tartarian caves are his abode,
He feasts upon the venom of the toad.
At virtues self ha hurls his poisoned darts
His music is the groans of broken hearts.
The sights he loves, the burning blush of shame
And human mis'ry is his constant aim.
He loathes whatever may be pure and chaste,
And what's most putrid, most delights his taste,
And with the greater rottenness of the feast,
so is this Nultures appetite increased.
In each vile passion there are vi1er deeps
Where this false. filthy Shiny reptile creeps.
In every sorrow there's a deeper
Where this malignant fiend would have 60
In each disgrace there is deeper shame
With which this demon still would mark our name.
All malice, hatred. enmity, and rage
Within his breast, their horrid contests wage
With poisoned arrow the string, he stands,
With fends and devils nerving both his hands.
His CORY lips, and sulphur flashing eyes.
Show he consumes with malice and with lies.
Hating all rights. and trampling on all laws,
He has more stings than Centipedes have claws
And every bGghting lie. by malice hurled,
With thousand tongues he bays around the world.
a strange dstorting glass, in either hand
He carries, in his rawlings oer the land.
He suffers no one harmiessly TO pass;
Look here he cries, and holds you out the glass
You look, and 10. the virgin, pure and fair
Becomes a bioated imp with viprous hair
The man of God is preaching for the fleece,
Would sell his people for crown apiece.
The Statesman toiling hard, a realm to save
Is a self-seekiug coward, and a knave.
Vhe Judge who would to all. the right dispense
xeives n bribe, instead of evidence.
81 dearest. kindest friend, well tried for wears
ouseen through this, lurking foe appears
lecoIfe, so faithful to her spouse and head,
his ~ hateful tratress to your bed.
yiII 10. lnsatiate enemy to bliss,
~ look at nothing it is.
fe braaJ JIhe dismal, murky dens of vice
Lep;o,,s Is lies, this hateful cocatriee
10 eui IN name; their parentage we trace
W. sy;A - oIosA and evry foul embrace.
N.h' am sinner seem alike to be
Er parents of this progeny.
nor countless numbers yet untold,
fohium is too small 10 hold.
.-.Sv;S<sm forth to earth with hideous veil
S,rood that e'er escaped from hell
Likaud rebs iocusts, ,~all around they fly,
And what~<sad their stingsI may touch, must die.
Like Satyrs too, their pestilential breath
Spreads jealousy, misanthropy and death
They hence expel. where'er they spread abroad
Our social pleasures and the love of God.
No virtues can remain where they can dwell
For all their tongues set fires of hell"
If they but hiss at innocence. she appears
To loose that beauty she has known for years
Their hateful breath our inward peace destroys,
And robs us of our hearts most cherished joys.
Their various forms no pencil eer can paint,
They come as friend. or minister, saint
'Tis now Congressman, or President
Then gentleman. or lady lenient.
A farmer or mechanic seeking pelf
Your neighbor oft. and often, 'tis myself.
Or otherwise when sunk beneath b er load
She takes the form of viper, of toad.
he furious nadman or the hateful quack,
Tx. ti<stad rirnp. raying maniac