谣言被揭穿了——根据五点区的迈克尔-欧弗兰纳根先生和水街的启特-柏恩斯先生及约翰-亚伦先生三人宣誓负责的证词,现已证明马克-吐温先生诬蔑我党德高望重的领袖约翰-霍夫曼已故的祖父,说他是因犯盗劫罪被处绞刑的。这种卑鄙的说法是一种下流的无端的谣言,连丝毫事实根据的踪影都没有。像这样毁谤九泉之下的死者并以谰言玷污他们的令名的无耻手段,竟被人用以博得政治上的成功,这实在叫正人君子看了寒心。我们想到这种卑鄙的谣言给死者清白的家属和亲友们必然带来的悲恸时,几乎激动得要把受了污蔑和侮辱的公众鼓动起来,采取断然行动,对诽谤者施行非法的报复。但是我们不这么办!还是让他去受到良心的谴责而苦痛吧。(不过公众如果让感情的冲动占了上风,在盲目的愤怒支配之下竟至对诽谤者加以人身的伤害,显而易见,陪审员是不能给这些激于义愤的人们定罪的,法院也不能对他们加以处罚。)
The ingenious closing sentence had the effect of moving me out of bed with despatch that night, and out at the back door also, while the "outraged and insulted public" surged in the front way, breaking furniture and windows in their righteous indignation as they came, and taking off such property as they could carry when they went. And yet I can lay my hand upon the Book and say that I never slandered Mr. Blank's grandfather. More: I had never even heard of him or mentioned him up to that day and date.
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