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4655. LIBELS, Newspaper.—[further continued].

No inference is here intended,
that the laws, provided by the States
against false and defamatory publications,
should not be enforced; he who has time,
renders a service to public morals and public
tranquillity, in reforming these abuses by the
salutary coercions of the law.—
Second Inaugural. Address. Washington ed. viii, 44. Ford ed., viii, 346.
(1805)