New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-24
WE WILL sUBDUE YOU.

When the arch. traitor from Illinois recently
vomited his rage upon the Senate in his declara-
tiop. "We intend to subdue you" he only re-
echoed the war-whoop which, from the be-
ginning of things, the principle Of Evil in the
world has forever shouted In its warfare upon the
Coed. Darkness has striven against Light, the
Demoniac against the Divine, ever since our race
was planted on the earth, and always with the cry,
"We will subdue you! The myths and legends,
the traditions and creeds of early ages the historic
records of later times, have alike recognized and
established the existence of the perpetual contest
To "subdue" the All powerful, Satan revoltod, and
for his attempt was precipitated into the abyss OF
utter darkness. The mythology of the East contains
the record of this immortal struggle in the hlsto
~ of the wars of Ormuzd and Ahrlman. The
Brahmipic theodicy and history turn upon the
alternating victories, defeats and domination OF
these two powers. To "subdue " the race Of man,
Satan crawed on bis belly and ate dirt in Eden.
mathematical of the same effort at subsection was
the claiming of Promethcus, the friend and bene-
factor Of man, to the rocky summit of Caucasus.
So too philosophy, the Scriptures positive religious
creeds, all point, distinctly ard prominently, to
this struggle. But they also point to the glorious
certainty of the final victory Of the Right and the
infamous and accursed end of the Wrong in all its
attempts to "subdue its great opposite" The
Pharoahs tried to "subdue Moses and the spirit of
thstlofer and purer spritualism ofwhch the chosen
people were the and harbnger. Judas
sold the man who was to be "subdued" by the
Phalisaic SaDbedrim. The DOuglases and Pierces
of that day declared that by tho united instrument
tally Of Judas and the Doctors, they would "sub-
due +" the Godlike on the cross of Calvary. But
from that cross has gone forth a regenerated bu-
maDity. everywhere subduing the subduers, end
heralding the certain triumphs of emancipation,
democracy and universal justice.
Xerxes and his satraps precipitsted their count
less hOrdes upon the free Greeks, those pestilent
ngitators of that epoch declaring. ave will subdue
you" But they were scattered, and fed. The
boasts of these myrmidOns aroused the fires of re-
sistance, and in those fires Xerxes and his hOst
we're consumed Athens rose from the terrific
struggle, the brightest and most luminous star of
The Past shedding her light for ages over the path
way of mental and political development. Expiring
paganism wading to the throat in the blood Of the
early Christans, carried on it's banner and vented
in savage rawlings the words, eve will subdue
you" But that pagansm persisted and disappear
ed for ever. 1t went down, as the political pagan
ism of this day will 60 down, with the sounds of
its blasphemous howlings upon its lips. Attila
came TO the south and west of Europe where
yet glimmered the spark Of civilization, and
where lay the germs of the social and political
ideas of modern times full of hate for all
that was lofty and noble, this savage in
vader exclaimed: 81 will subdue you" All the
tribes and races of people then filling the vast
spaces from the Altai Mountains to the Atlantic
Ocean, weltered in blood. But the Light triumphed
over the Darkness, The despotisn Of the great
barbarian was exploded in thousand fragments.
His projected conquest failed. Attila fed. So
too, when pure Christianity degenerated, the
Roman priesthood declared that mental freedom
must be "subdued.' Popes and EmperOrs, pre-
lates and priests rose with one accord and combin
ing what seemed to be the irresistible forces of the
age, sOlemnly vowed to execute the determination.
They rushed upon their work crying to the few
opposers, in the language of the little political
priests among US, ave intend to subdue you ~
Luther rose. Oppression was driven back discom-
fitted, and humanity moved onward. The kingly
power of England rose in the person of the Stuars,
ard said to the people of that realm and the
founders of this: 1--WE intend to subdue you ~
Kingly power was brought to the block and ex-
plated its oIense in the blood of decaptstion. The
1Orx h. Of
tAmple upon his loyal subjects on this continent;
all unwilling to resist, they begged him to spare
ahem. He replied, We intend TO subdue you"
Those subjects rose and broke his power like a
reed, andsfreed themselves forever from royal do
minatOn.
Such has been the experience and such the fate
of those in this world who have rashly undertaken
to sutdue the Right Tyrants and despots, revtl-
ing in power, have confidently relied on material
force to crush the truth Traitors and renegades to
humanity have ever, as now in the Senate Of the
United States cried out in the malevolence Of an
insensate hate to the Of truth and light, to the
apostles of reason and conscience, 1--WE intend to
subdue you ~ But the end has ever been the same
The sacrilegious tcmpters have always been de-
stroyed. The contest has often been protracted.
But however terrible or bloody or enduring the
strife, whether ii has lasted months OF years or
centuries, the interests If humanity the cause of
truth and justice, have advanced. The world has
grown wiser and freer and better, in spite of tyr
amy and oppression and wrong. And its history
in the future will be vet more radiant than in the
past The goddess crowd who resist mans eman
cipation and enlightenment, who oppose every step