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bY LADY COOK, nee TENNESSEE CLAFLIN
doubt about the historical origin of the word “slander,” but none as to its meaning.
Ihre, in his glossary of the Swedo-
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(iothic, makes the French esclandir equivalent to the Swedish AVander, an 'l re I rt, an obloquy, or infamy. And
our English word is derived from the french esclandre. Chaucer Anglicized
itand wrote it sclandre. Philologists derive the French word from the low Latin scandalum, but the Anglo-Saxon sfean, to beat or wound—in this case
by evi! report—has been suggested as the derivation of slander. The two-fold mconiye r of esciandre gives a faint -ountenance to this notion, for it also de noted slaughter as well as misfortune or disaster To slander is “ to censure falsely, to
defa: e, to calumniate,” and slander it- self is, cnerefore,a calumny, a false and malicious detraction or defamation of the character or conduct of another, and is punishable by the law, which distinguishes between spoken and written defamation. The first is slander; the second, libel. To speak or write against the great was once an enormous
crime known as scanda/um magnatum.
How few have escaped. slander of some sort! How many are there who have not only been wounded by it, but bave been downright slain, driven from society with damaged fortunes and broken hearts. If we rise above the crowd, detraction dogs us like our shadows. Calumny stalks behind with baletul eye watching every word and movement for evil misrepresentation, and by a hateful alchmey, converts our gold to lead, but never the lead to gold. Our friends too often misinterpret our feelings and views, and our enemies persistently endeavour to disparage or pervert them. Even those who live under our roofs and eat from our tables are frequently domestic spies, ready like the ungrateful hound, to bite the hand that feeds them. For slander is the natural weapon of the faithless, the ignorant, the envious, the malicious, the cowardly, and the unjust. Weak and iznoble dispositions wield it against all that is wiser, stronger, or better than themselves. Those who do not see with their eyes, and judge with their perceptions—however blind or feeble these may be—are not merely suspected of evil, but are at once boldly charged with all that make for infamy.
If we turn tothe pages of history, what miserable pictures do they present us of the follies and wickednesses of mankind. The greatness that has been achieved during the past has been the work ct the few, who, in spite of sneers and scoffs and general detraction, per- severed in the good work that lay before them. Ahead of their times, these pioneers of progress, gifted with en- lightened viewsand a high sense of duty,
marched straight on to their goal whether it gave them a crown ora crucifix... ‘They were the worid’s. true
great ones, who by sheer force of their moral and intellectual powers lifted the multitudes to higher planes whether
they wou'd or not. The pevple may have ridiculed the'r teachers, ‘starved their } ets, stoned the prophets, and
Bbanishcd or burnt the expounders of science: nevertheless, the sc eds of ee
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which were sown in tears and watered with their blood, have become mighty trees of knowledge of good and evil, and must eventually overspread the whole earth.
We have no need to look for examples in other countries, for the records of England are filled with instances’ of men and women, virtuous in themselves and beneficent to others, who have been destroyed by slander. The higher we go the stronger is the evidence. Loyalty and integrity have not been proof against it. “Serve a great man,” says a Spanish proverb, “and you will know ‘what sorrow is.”
The ingratitude of the rich and the noble, and the ready ear they give to slander against those who serve them well and faithfully, are notorious. “Put not your trust in princes,”was the soul- felt quotation of the fallen Strafford when he heard that Charles had signed his death-warrant. A King’s oath was as a feather when weighed against ex- pediency. Edward Spenser, who died broken-hearted at Westminster in 1599, wise poet though he was, had leant on royalty and found it an unstable reed. Who could si ing better than he the folly of dependence on the great? We still feel the pathos of his lines coming straight from a lofty and disappointed mind wrecked by slander :—
** Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide;
To lose good days that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent:
To speed to-day, | to be put hack to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince’s grace, yet want her peers; To have thy asking, yet wait many years;
To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.”
3ut if the tender mercies of the great have been cruel, those of the populace have been found equally bitter, and with less reason. One of our prover!s says, “Slander leaves a score behind it.” Rumour spreads and multiplies it and gives it various aspects. It resembles a snow-ball that gathers as it rolis. And this pestilent and cruel power is exercis- ed by the most worthless of mankind. How many gallant gentlemen went to the block for the forgeries and perjuries of Titus Oates. We have still, perhaps, many Oates, Bedloes, and Dangerfields among us were the opportunity given them to be enriched by calumniating others. But slanderers cannot aim so high as in former times, and so the vilest of them are reduced to black, mailing. These, however, are the ex- perts in this vice. By easy gradations we descend from the turpitude of black- pring to ordinary slander and _ back- biting, and from these to mischievous tittle-tattle. The expressive wink, the sly inuendo, the shrug which says noth- ing but means so much, and even silence when the truth should be. told, are all in a small way pressed into the service.
For there are some who slander for pleasure, as others for profit, and. who resemble the libeller described by the author of A/udibras. He “endeavours with his own evil Words to corrupt an- other Man’s good Manners. All his Works are but of two Things, his own Malice and another Man’s Fautits. ... He is not much concerned whether what he writes be true or false, that’s noihing to his purpose, which aims only at fi/thy and ditter. and itherefore his Language is like Pictures of the Devil, the fouler the better- He robs a man of his good Name, not for any good it will do him (for he dares not own it) but merely, asa Jackdaw steals Money, for his Pleasure.”
Yet all feel it to be as true as when Shakespeare wrote it,that itis far worse to rob one of reputation than of hard | cash :—
Good name, in man or woman, dcar my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls;
Whosteals my purse steals trash; “tis some- thing, nothing;
’ Twas mine, ‘tis his, and has-been slave to thousands;
Bat he that filches from me my gocd name,
Kobs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
If this be so, then the assassin of a good and deserved reputation merits a heavier punishment then the thief or
burglar.
How then can we arm ourselves against the malice of envy or the falsehoods of slander? By treating
them with contempuous silence and living down their assaults; by render- ing good for evil and kindness for rail- ing; by acting up to our consciences in ‘right and duty regardless of what may be said: and by opposing to vero- mous obliquy the sweetness of a blame- less life. It is not the weapon or word of Justice that. can blunt those of ‘Slander; whose*edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue outvenoms all the worms of Nile,” but the exampleset by virture. “You should live virtuously for many reasons,’ said the caustic Juvenal about eighteen hundred years ago “but particularly on this account, that you may be able to despise the
tongues of your domestics. The
tongue is the worst part cf a bad serv- ant.”
From this we gather that the very slaves indulgeq freely iu slandering their owners, so prone ts human nature to detraction. perhaps Juvenal also found, as many do still, that there were tellow citizens bace enough to interview the servants for domestic treason in order to traduce the family. Such ver- min occasionaily infest English homes as well as the Roman. But all who value the purity and comfort of society, and who believe in the inestimable worth of a good name, will unite in putting down such pests, with all other meddlers and busy-bodies and private detectives in the cause of defamation.
As Cicero said, “It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.” But when the evil is forced upon our notice, patent and
notorious, it would be affectation to shut our eycs tu it. Slander is an enormous and acknowledged — evil.
thousands who live by it, to of others. It is to some
encouraged, and tends The welfare of society ace of families demand, should be me: with and no good
There ar: the suffering extent publely to increase. and the } therefore, that it every kind of repression, citizen will refuse to assist ia so manly and whulesume a work.
Rev. Mr. Samuels, a minister in New Jersey, has introduced the phono- graph into his church, to repeat prayers, Bible selections, hymrs, and the bene- diction, and says the congregation “are delighted with it.”
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