...irrepressible conflict, and who, in the dilemma or alternative of this conflict, were resolved that " the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina, and the sugar plantations of Louisiana, should ultimately be tilled by free labor," had obtained power and place in the common Government of...

...I can and must do it." Speaking of "free labour and slave labour as antagonistic systems," he says, "It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing...either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labour nation." Again, how significant are his words, "Correct your own error, that slavery has...

...irrepressible conflict between opposing and endur1 ing forces, and it means that the United States must aud will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slave-holding nation or entirely a free labor nation. " Thus spake William H. Seward at Rochester in 1858, after alluding to the constant...

...native or foreign, is not enslaved only because ho cannot yet be reduced to bondage ; one who says thera is an " irrepressible conflict" between " opposing...United States must and will, sooner or later, become entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free labor nation. This is the enlightened theory and...

...the United States become entirely a slave-holding nation, or entirely a free labor nation, and that either the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina, and the sugar plantations of Louisiana must be ultimately tilled by free labor, and Charleston and New York become marts for legitimate merchandise...

...may compare with a paragraph in his speech in the United States Senate, Feb. 29, 1860. October, 1858. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation. February, 1860. "The whole sovereignty upon domestic concerns within the Union is divided between us...

...doctrine that free States and slave States cannot perma_nently exist in the same republic. He said : "It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing...slaveholding nation or entirely a free-labor nation." The opposing conflict is between the States ; the Union cannot remain as it now is, part free and part...

...the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a Iree- labor nation. Either the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina, and the sugar plantations...

...the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a Iree- labor nation. Either the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina, and the sugar plantations...

...may compare with a paragraph in his speech in the United States Senate, Feb. 29, 1860. October, 1858. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a tree-labor nation. February, 1860. "The whole sovereignty upon domestic concerns within the Union is...