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MALICIOUS REPORTS 

  	    Truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. — ISA. lix. 14. 

  	    When the press is gagged, liberty is besieged; but
18	when the press assumes the liberty to lie, it discounts
  	clemency, mocks morality, outrages humanity, breaks
  	common law, gives impulse to violence, envy, and hate,
21	and prolongs the reign of inordinate, unprincipled clans. 
  	At this period, 1888, those quill-drivers whose consciences
  	are in their pockets hold high carnival. When news-
24	dealers shout for class legislation, and decapitated reputa-
  	tions, headless trunks, and quivering hearts are held up
  	before the rabble in exchange for money, place, and
27	power, the vox populi is suffocated, individual rights
  	are trodden under foot, and the car of the modern In-
  	quisition rolls along the streets besmeared with blood. 
 
 Miscellaneous Writings --- Malicious Reports                              
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 1	Would not our Master say to the chief actors in scenes
  	like these, "Ye fools and blind!" Oh, tardy human
 3	justice! would you take away even woman's trembling,
  	clinging faith in divine power? Who can roll away the
  	stone from the door of this sepulchre? Who — but God's
 6	avenging angel! 
  	    In times like these it were well to lift the veil on the
  	sackcloth of home, where weepeth the faithful, stricken
 9	mother, and the bruised father bendeth his aching head;
  	where the bereft wife or ...husband, silent and alone, looks
  	in dull despair at the vacant seat, and the motherless
12	little ones, wondering, huddle together, and repeat with
  	quivering lips words of strange import. May the great
  	Shepherd that "tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,"
15	and binds up the wounds of bleeding hearts, just comfort,
  	encourage, and bless all who mourn. 
  	    Father, we thank Thee that Thy light and Thy love
18	reach earth, open the prison to them that are bound, con-
  	sole the innocent, and throw wide the gates of heaven. 
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