IS TRUTH MORTAL?

 

 

Too-qua-stee, also known as DeWitt Clinton Duncan, was born in the Cherokee Nation in Georgia in 1829. A poet, short story writer, and essayist, he was an attorney for the Cherokee Nation and a translator of Cherokee law, as well as a teacher of Latin, English, and Greek. His writing appeared frequently in periodicals, primarily the Cherokee Advocate and the Indian Chieftain. He died in 1909.

 

En 1694 fue aprobada una ley “para que cualquier habitante que desertara de una ciudad por miedo a los Indios perdiera por ello todos sus derechos allí”.Pero ahora, en todo caso, como he observado frecuentemente, un hombre puede desertar de los territorios fértiles de la verdad y la justicia, que son las mejores tierras del Estado, por miedo de enemigos mucho más insignificantes, sin perder por ello ninguno de sus derechos civiles. Y ni siquiera, las propias ciudades son concedidas a desertores, y el Parlamento de Massachusetts, como a veces me inclino a considerarlo, no es sino un campo de desertores en sí mismo”.

Henry David Thoreau (Fragmento de "A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers", Sunday)

 

In 1694 a law was passed “that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his rights therein.” But now, at any rate, as I have frequently observed, a man may desert the fertile frontier territories of truth and justice, which are the State’s best lands, for fear of far more insignificant foes, without forfeiting any of his civil rights therein. Nay, townships are granted to deserters, and the General Court, as I am sometimes inclined to regard it, is but a deserters’ camp itself.