Excerpt from Report of the Trial of an Action on the Case, Brought by Silvanus Miller, Esq., Late Surrogate of the City and Country of New-York, Against Mordecai M. Noah, Esq., Editor of the National Advocate, for an Alleged Libel

Finally, the, libel is easily analyzed. It is cal culated to injure the plaintiff in private and pub lic life - as a parent, a citizen, and public o¿icer, and to convince the community that it was not written in a moment of passion, when reason, discretion, and judgment had lost their ordinary in¿uence over the actions of the defendant, he deliberately declares that for three years he had been almost in the daily habit of representing my client to the world as he appears in this libel or, in other words, that for three years, so far as it respects my client, the defendant had been in the daily habit of violating the laws of the land, and provoking the vengeance of retribution.

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