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4656. LIBELS, Newspaper.—[further continued] .

We have received from
your [Massachusetts] presses a very malevolent
and incendiary denunciation of the administration,
bottomed on absolute falsehood
from beginning to end. The author would
merit exemplary punishment for so flagitious
a libel, were not the torment of his own
abominable temper punishment sufficient for
even as base a crime as this.—
To Levi Lincoln. Washington ed. v, 264.
(W. March. 1808)