Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-08-14
Uhe Social Uirfle.
Written for the Green Mountain Freeman.
Truth crushed to Earth shall rise
AGAIN.

again"
No truth yet unfolded to the world, whch-
or uttered by the low and ignobe, or reveal
ed by the great and illustrious, has ever been
annihilated, although the torch, the rack, and
all the evil Vaccinations, which ignorant and
perverted man has invented, may have been
employed to destroy it.
The experience of every age veri6es this
proposition. All history is replete with ex-
amples tending to corroborate it. In all
ages of the world, those fearless minds, that
have dared to question the time-sancti6ed
usages Of society, to explore new regions Of
thought, apd to unfold new truths for the
benefit Of their tellow-men, have been de.
nounced, illuminated and mathematical by
their ignorant, bigoted and superstitious CO.
temporarics.
Every age has had its dungeons and its
instruments of torture to torment and cruelty
those who, true to the noblest impulses of
the soul, have sought to reform and regener-
ate the world. Yea, the pages of history
are believed with the blood of martyrs and
heroes who have died 10 defence of truth and
Justice.
When the great Italian philosopher, Gal
ieo, announced to the world the startling
truths of tho Copernican theory respecting
the revolutions of our solar system the crown
ed and inferred tyrants of the Romish Church
employed their demonacal instruments to
torment and crush him. But though they
could destroy the person through whom It
was revealed, yet all the powers of Church
and State combined could not obliterate the
truth itself Phenix-like it rose from the
dust and ashes to which Popish bgotry and
intolerance had consigned it, and spread its
mighty pinions over all the world.
And when the meek and lowly Nazarepe
came forth into the world to enlghten the
darkened understandings of men by the pure
and genial rays of Celestial truth, the crush.
Ing arm OF Intolerance was brought down
upon him. He was prosecuted, scourped.
and even crucifed by the bigoted and fanati-
cal Jews, whom he sought to disenthrall from,
the bondage Of error and sin. And from that
time through all succeeding ages, blind Ma.
terialism and Skepticsm have marshalled all
their forces and leveled all their batteries
against those great and divine truths to which
he gave embodiment.
But, forsooth, as well might man, in his
wild infatuation, attempt to expunge the sui
from the heavens, or to annihilate the mate
rial universe with all its countless forms and
multivaried creations. The germs Of truth
which he had scattered broadcast upon the
world found root deep in the earth, and nc
mortal power could exterminate them.
Thus it ever has been, and it ever will be-
Truth is mighty and will prevail" Indeed
It must be SO from the very nature of things
tor all truth is Of divine origin, and like III
great Author, It is eternal, inmutable and
omnipotent '
The bones Of the worlds iIlustrious men,
its patriots its philanthropists its saaes and
its philosophers, who lived in the pastD-have
long since mouldered 10 the dust Of aoos
and their crumbling sepulchers now give sv;
dence Of ruin and decay !; yet those area,
truths, to which they gave utterarca Still al,
live, and will live forever. Man NAV s srr
and the world may be arrayed against n,
champions Of truth, yet no great thought wa
ever uttered, nor was one noble and God.l;k,
deed ever performed in vain. A divine 6n
ger traces them oil, in living characters upo,