The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-08-10
From the Pennsylvania Freeman.
Triumph of Truth.

The following eloquent extract is from the re-
port of the Susqueha nah Anti-Slavery and Free
Discussion Society, which was read at their last
anniversary on the 4th of Seventh month. 1t is
correct view of the great contest which is now
going on in the world, and particularly in our own
country. Principles resting on the basis of immu-
table truth, will never be shaken amid the shock
of contending elements. They are deeply inbed
ded on foundation which remains eternaIly and
unchangeably the same and becoming the strong
pillars in the superstructure which we build, we
have the undoubting assurance that we labor not
in vain. Let such be our hope and our conf
dence.
The great TRUTHS which are now going forth
in our land, and are doing battle with ERROR, de-
rive much of their sablimity from the very mystic
ny that enshrouds their operations and their pro-
gress. Their achievements may, for the moment
attract less of the worlds gaze than victory like
that of Pharsalia or Waterloo although their in
huences upon the world, are infinitely more i'm
portant and more lasting. The progress of war
may be distinctly traced; the deadly array-the
fierce confict--the blood-the death-the triumph
or the downfa ll-and the widespread desolation
all address themselves at once to the senses, and
produce effects pal pable and immediate. Such
struggles are readily appreciated by the vulgar
mind Far different is the moral warfare. The
mighty assaant is invisible, ethereal-her arena
is the heart, and the judgement-and her victory
will be first over abstract error and prejudice, then
those visible effects, which appear in the shape
of stripes and chains and blood. Truth marches
not like an invading army, from fortress to for
tress, and from battlefield to battlefield, in her
course of subjugation-she consults not time,
place. circumstance, nor knows art and stratagem /;
but descends at once into her field, and grapples
with every foe. And while the vulgar observer
of outward manifestations, may lament the link
added to sIavery's chain, the riot, and the murder,
which he calls effects; the philanthropist sees in
them only an evidence of the unsseed struggle,
and of the feeble and temporary resistance of err
ror. The crimes perpetrated at UTICA, PHIDADEL-
pHrA and ALToN-the strife in neighborhoods and
the divisions in churches grow not out of the OPP
eratons of Truth, but out of the opposition raised
to her progress, by Error. 1t is not the Anti but
the Pro- Slavery man. who is chargeable with
their riminaty.-Shall VIRTUE cease TO enlight-
en-, to reform, to save; because opposing VICE
strives to degrade, to darken to destroy? Shall
inviting Heaven drop its drapery Of glory, because
gaping He'll still calls for its myriad victims! No.
Truth must 60 forth as she is; immaterial, indes-
ructable, omnipotent, from the hands OF her AU-
THoR--passing unschathed, and unobstructed thro
the agot, the prison, and the fetter-stirring, ex-
citing and crushing all oppositiou-and flying
back to her spirit home, only when her triumph
is complete, and the peace Of virtue is established