The youthful champions of the rights of human nature have buckled and are buckling on their armor; and the scourging overseer, and the lynching lawyer, and the servile sophist, and the faithless scribe, and the priestly parasite, will vanish before them like Satan touched by the spear of Ithuriel.
Quincy uses vivid imagery to describe the emerging champions of human rights and the forces opposing them.
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The tongue of falsehood can never be silenced.
With a tolerable share of common sense, I hope, in America, to be independent and free.
I have no doubt our citizens will rally a second time round the standard of Common Sense.
But the first principles of morals and politics, which have long been settled, acquire the authority of self-evident truths, which, when first discussed, may have been vehemently and portentously contested.
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