The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-08-20

Universal Brothe1hoCd- Bond
of Brotherhood, &c.
No. 3.

Our globe contains about 820,0ooooo OF
inhabitants, with diversity Of 80 distinct
languages, and 5000 dialects. Only about
one-fourth. or 200 900, 900, of our race have
ever been enlightened. The light of useful
knowledge has perhaps, never shonc upon
their darkened intellects. Nearly two thirds
of the continent of America-the greater part
of Africa, Sumatra, Borneo, New Holland,
Siberia, Thibet, Tartary, and most OF the
Empire of Turkey, with almost countless Is
lands of the great oceans, are cropping IN men
tai and moral night. Comparatively, they
know nothing of science, nor revelaton-
Their minds are debased, and instead of
knowledge of the true God and eternal life !;
they are merged in a sea of ignorance and
blind superstition. Having naught but ma
lures light, to guide them to true religion,
what wonder that they should institute false
systems, degrading in their natures & effects
If their minds we're ever Illuminated, it has
been but CLEAN of light wandering forth from
the sun of science, las it burst from the sleep OF
ages dark, but like the meteor's blaze, soon
went out aoain-or rainbow hues, to fade IN
"darkening, quivering tints" from VIEW
Malignity, hate, revenge, are the principle
traits of their character but not theirs alone,
They are found in the very soul Of Chris
tendon, and sometimes very strikingly exhiG-
tied.
Every age has presented to our view, If we
may believe history, scenes of cruelty, OPP
preston, war and bloodshed, devastation and
ruin. To look over the history of the past,
to trace the actions Of men, from one gener-
alton to another, to note the rise and fall OF
Empires, thrones and kingdoms; to count the
ruins of cities--riyers made red with human
blood-to listen to the bondmen's signs, the
widows tears and orphans prayers, one might
infer, did it not reflect upon the character OF
his author. that man was created and placed
here to plumber, rob, burn, waste, Cypress &
destroy his neighbour friends, kindred and
nation, and drench the world in floods ofhu-
man gore. These are but the records OF the
b,ser passions of the nature of man acted out.
History does not record it all AS it regards
all the transactions of mankind, from the time
when first the morning stars sang together"
we can only conjecture. Where are Assyria
and Babylon, once the glory and pride ofthe
whole earth? Ask the Tigris and Euphra-
tes waters, and they mournfully murmur, for
ever vanished. Go walk through the subtle
ranean cities of the dead, inquire, Of those
statute mummies, of Memphis and Thebes-
of lettered Egypt, once the glory of the Pto-
lemies and the Pharaohs, and they are an
swerless as are her heaven-towering Pyra-
mids. Inquire for Africs Carthage; she
slumbers in the tomb of obi Won. Tyre and
sidon are chafed by the flowing and reauent
tide. Jerusalem sits solitary and weeps, fol
her spendor and glory have departed, and
the shadow of her former greatness, fingers
qhost upon her sunlit hills. Rome and Con
stantinople live only in dishonor. Their glo
ry survives only in their massive ruins, which
show forth the downfall of the eternal En-
pire. The wandering Arab strikes his tent
on the ruins of Balbec and Palmyra, ano
their music is but the songs of the nightingale
and the owl The history Of Ghengis Khan