...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...

...Speaking of "free labour and slave labour as antagonistic systems," he says, "It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and...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...

...enslaved only because ho cannot yet be reduced to bondage ; one who says thera is an " irrepressible conflict" between " opposing and enduring forces,"...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...

...upon the northern states, I will read an extract from his Rochester speech : " It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces ; and...fields of South Carolina, and the sugar plantations of Iiouisiana, will ultimately be tilled by free labor, and Charleston and New Orleans become marts for...

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

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

...and slave states cannot permanently exist in the same Kepublic. He said : u It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces ; and...either entirely a slaveholding nation or entirely a free labor nation." The opposing conflict is between the States ; the Union can not remain as it now...

...or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, 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...