I haven’t seen it published anywhere, or cited in any articles or books on blasphemy, so I thought I’d pass it along, since it seems to be one of the few available early decisions on blasphemy. I should note that I’m passing this along solely in case people are curious about it, and in case it helps people in their research — I’m not trying to make any statement about what the law ought to be, or even about the original meaning of the First Amendment or related state constitutional provisions.
The report is from Law Intelligence, Franklin Gazette, p. 2, Nov. 17, 1818, but it’s also reprinted in much the same form in a contemporaneous newspaper article that’s available here:
Mr. Bache,
The following paragraph is extracted from the Democratic Press of Saturday last —