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That's the identical gang which has the immaculate gall to accuse me of defaming virtuous women the same gang which applauded Slattery for calling convents priestly harems wants me killed for expressing the hope that no more young girls will be debauched at Baylor. Brann's reply to Slattery appears in Vol.
The latter, indeed, considered it expedient to wait upon the commissioners appointed by the Parliament to investigate these reports, in order to urge the condemnation of their authors; these being, as he asserted, not only guilty of defaming innocent persons, but also of exciting a dangerous feeling among the people, at all times too anxious to seek the disgrace and ruin of their superiors.
At last he rose, and coldly said, 'I knew it could be no other who thus interrupted my devotions. 'My sisters! she gasped. 'Well, what of them? 'Do you know what wicked things are said of them the dear maids? Ah! as she saw his strange smile 'you have heard! You will silence the fellows, who deserve to have their tongues torn out for defaming a king's daughters.
Beyond doubt that sequestered nook was a favorite lounging spot for the girl, and this disreputable creature had been watching her for some sinister purpose. "So you have been eavesdropping, have you?" said Brant, gravely. "And now you want to try a turn at defaming a woman? Well, you have come to a poor market for the sale of such goods. I am half inclined to throw you bodily into the creek.
Well might Schiller declare in the stanzas entitled 'The Maid of Orleans': The world brooks not nobility, disdaining, Defaming, smirching, goes its vulgar gait; But fear thou not, true hearts are still remaining, To love thee for the heart that made thee great. In its inmost essence, then, 'The Maid of Orleans' is a drama of patriotism.
Mayor, and Ladies and Gentlemen, There have been some who, to the great satisfaction of despots, and their civil and religious confederates, have moved Heaven and Hell to lower my sacred mission to the level of a stage-play; and to ridicule the enthusiastic outburst of popular sentiments, by defaming its object and its aim. That was a sorrowful sight indeed. To meet opposition we must be prepared.
This premeditated campaign was heralded by violent and repeated public denunciations of the Faith over the air, from the pulpit, and through the press, defaming its holy Founders, distorting its distinctive features, ridiculing its aims and purposes, and perverting its history.
They lampooned her, hissed her, and burlesqued her publicly at the theatres, cruelly defaming her intentions and her private life. Strong in the knowledge of her own rectitude, she faced the tempest without flinching; yet inwardly her soul was torn to pieces.
'Sir, don't you perceive that you are defaming the Countess? For, supposing me to be her son, and that she was not married till the year after my birth, I must have been her NATURAL son. A young lady of quality who was present very handsomely said, 'Might not the son have justified the fault? My friend was much flattered by this compliment, which he never forgot.
I would certainly be tempted to take a potshot at an occasional preacher who persisted in defaming me with his foolish dogmatism.
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