Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring... The Life of Stephen A. Douglas - Page 508by James Washington Sheahan - 1860 - 528 pagesFull view - About this book
| Rolander Guy McClellan - United States - 1872 - 698 pages
...later, become cither entirely a slaveholding Nation, or entirely n free l.'.bor Nation. Either tho cotton and rice fields of South Carolina, and the sugar plantations of Louisiana, will ultimately bo tilled by free labor, and Charleston and New Orleans become marts for... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 744 pages
...the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...fields of South Carolina and the sugar plantations of Louisiana will ultimately be tilled by free labor, and Charleston and New Orleans become marts for... | |
| Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 754 pages
...the work of interested and fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...slaveholding nation or entirely a free-labor nation." Having enunciated the great truth of the inevitable tendency of the nation to be " all slave or all... | |
| Daniel Webster Wilder - History - 1875 - 692 pages
...the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation It is the failure to comprehend this great truth that induces so many unsuccessful attempts at final... | |
| R. Guy M'Clellan - United States - 1875 - 716 pages
...and will, soouer or later, become either entirely a slave-holding Nation, or entirely a free libor Nation. Either the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina, and the sugar plantations of Louisiana, will ultimately bo tilled by free labor, r.nd Charleston r.nd New Orleans become r.mrts... | |
| Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 542 pages
...wisest actions. A few mouths later, (October,) Mr. Seward made another prediction, at Rochester, NY " It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...slaveholding nation or entirely a free-labor nation." John Early in the same year, one of the Kansas freeBrown's state leaders, John Brown, told his friends... | |
| Joseph Hodgson - Confederate States of America - 1876 - 540 pages
...the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...slave-holding nation or entirely a free-labor nation." WH SEWARD, IN 1858. "Our own banner is inscribed; 'No co-operation with slave-holders in politics:... | |
| Samuel Eliot - United States - 1876 - 538 pages
...wisest actions. A few mouths later, (October,) Mr. Seward made another prediction, at Rochester, NY " It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...slaveholding nation or entirely a free-labor nation." John Early in the same year, one of the Kansas freeBrown's state leaders, John Brown, told his friends... | |
| Joseph Hodgson - Confederate States of America - 1876 - 566 pages
...the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the rase altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a •lave-holding nation or entirely a free-labor nation." WH SEWARD, IN 1858. " Our own banner is inscribed... | |
| Joseph Hodgson - Confederate States of America - 1876 - 560 pages
...that Mr. SEWARD would be Secretary of State. In his " Irrepressible conflict " speech he had asserted that the " United States must and will, sooner or...slave-holding nation or " entirely a free-labor nation." These declarations of hostility to the South had been repeated oftener as the canvass approached a... | |
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