SLANDER.—Surgery may heal a bodily wound; but what balm can bind up the bite of a slanderous tongue? It runs like a contagion over the whole country, and cannot be recalled. Robbery may be48recompensed by restitution; but how can you ever make amends to the man whom you have traduced? I tell you truly, not all the wealth you have in the world, can wipe away the wrong you have done in such a case.—Robert Bolton. 1634.