The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-04-12
The .1teraio Of Freedom.
/ lawrence. Saturday. April II. 1855.
We VIII subdue You.

When the arch-trailor from Illinois
recently vomited his rage upon the Seq
ate in his declaration, I'VE intend 10
subdue you," he only re-echoed the war
whoop which, from the beginning of
things. the principle of Evil in the world
has forever shouted in its warfare upon
the Good Darkness has striven against
Light, the Demoniac against the Divine,
ever since our race was planted on the
earth, and always with the cry, eve
will subdue you!'' Tie myths and le-
gends, the traditions and creeds OF ear
ly ages, the historic records oflater times
have alike recognized and established
the existence of the perpetual contest
To "subdue" the All-powerful, Satan
revolted, and for his attempt was precipi-
tated into the abyss of utter daIkness.-
The mythology OF the East contains the
record of this immortal struggle in the
history of tie wars of Ormuzd and
Abriman. The Brahminic Iheodicy and
history turn upon tie alternating victo-
ries, defeats, and domination of these
two powers. To "subdue" the race OF
man, Satan crawled on his belly and ate
dirt in Eden. mathematical OF tile SAM !:
effort at subjection was the cEaining OF
PrometEeus, the friend and benefactor
of man, to the rocky summit of Caucasus.
So too philosophy, tie Scriptures, posi-
tive religious creels, all point, distinctly
and prominently to this struggle. But
they also point 10 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 ssub-
due" Moses and the spirit of that loflier
and purer spirituaism of which the cho-
sen people were the representatives and
harbinger. Judas sold the man who was
to be ''subdued' by the Pharisaic Sanhe-
drIm. The Douglases and Pierces OF
that day declared that, by the united in
strumentality of Judas and the Doctors,
they would 'subdue" the Godlike on the
cross of Calvary. But from that cross
has gnne forth a regenerated humanity,
everywhere subduing the subduers, and
heralding the CT rtain triumphs of eman-
cipatien, fraternity, democracy and uni
versal justice.
Xerxes and his satraps precipitated
their countless hordes upon the Greeks,
those pestilent agiiators of that epoch,
declaring, '.We Siil subdue you" But
they were scattered and fled. The boasts
of these myrimidons aroused the fires. of
resistance, and in those fires Xerxes and
his hest were consumed. Athens rose
from the terrific struggle, the brightest
and most luminous star of tie Past, she'd
ding her light for ages over the pathway
of mental and political Development
Expiring paganism, wading to The throat
in the blood of the early Christians, car
iied on its banner and vented in savage
rawlings, the words, 1--WE will subdue
YOU" But that paganism perished and
disappeared forever. 1t went down, as
the political paganism of this day will
go down, with the sounds oil its blasphe-
nous howlings upon its lips. Attila
came to the south and west of Europe,
where yet glimmered the spark of civil
cation, 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 invader exclaimed:
al will subdue you" All the tribes aud
races of people then filling the vastspaces
from the Altai Mountains to the Atlantic
Ocean, weltered in blood. But the Ligh;
triumphed over the Darkness. The des-
potism of the great barbarian was explod-
ed in thousand fragments. Hisproject-
cd conquest failed. Attila fled. So too.
when pure Christianity degenerated, the
Roman priesthood declared that mental
freedom must be "subdued." Popes
and Emperors, prelatcs and priests, rose
with one accord, and combining what
seemed to be the irresistible forces OF
the age, solemnly vowed to execute the
deter mination. They rushed upon their
work crying to the few opposers, in the
language OF the little political priests
among us, "We intend to subdue you''
Luther rose. Oppression was driven
back discomtitted. and humanity moved
onward. The kingly power of England
rose in the the person of the Stuar,s and
said TO the people of that realm and the
founders of this: eve intend to sub
due you!" Kingly power was brought
to the block and expiated its offense in
the blood of decapitation. The first
George, unmindfui OF the spirit of liber-
ty. trampled upon his loyal subjects on
this continent; all unwilling to resist.
they begged him to spare them. He re-
piled. "we intend to subdue you." Those
subjects rose and broke his power like a
reed, and freed themselves forever from
royal domination.
Such has been the experience and such
: tfa fate af those in this world who have
rashly undertaken to subdue the Right.
Tyrants and despots. reyeling in power.
have confidently relied on material force
to crush the truth. Traitors and rene
gades to humanity have ever, as now in
the Senate of the United States, cried
out in the malevolence of an incensate
hate to the men OF truth and light. to the
apostles of reason and conscience. eve
intend to subdue you!' But the end
has ever been the same. The saeriligeous
tsmpters have always been destroyed
The contest has often been protracted.
But however terrible. or bloody or en-
during the strife, whether it has lasted
months, or years. or centuries. the inter