 It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.  The Life of Stephen A. Douglas - Page 508by James Washington Sheahan - 1860 - 528 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hugo Reid - Nova Scotia - 1861 - 328 pages
...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 slave-holding nation, or entirely a free-labour nation."—" It is the failure to apprehend this great truth that induces so many unsuccessful... | |
 | Felix Gregory De Fontaine - Antislavery movements - 1861 - 78 pages
...and collision ensues. " Shall I tell you what tlrs collision means? It la an Irrepressib'e contact between opposing and enduring forces, and it means...United States must, and will, sooner or later, become entirely a alaveholding nation, or entirely a free labor nation. Either the cotton and rice fields... | |
 | George McHenry - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 396 pages
...Southern people declined being ruled by such a madman or political trickster. Here are his words : — ' It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...either entirely a slave-holding nation ' or entirely a free-labour nation.' Mr. Seward, finding that he had then gone too far, and in his desire to obtain... | |
 | Constitutions - 1863 - 474 pages
...continually coming into closer contact, and collision ensues. "Shall I tell what this collision means? It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...United States must, and will, sooner or later, become entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free labor nation. Either the cotton and rice fields... | |
 | George McHenry - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 372 pages
...Southern people declined being ruled by such a madman or political trickster. Here are his words : — ' It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...and it means that the United States must and will, H ' sooner or later, become either entirely a slave-holding nation ' or entirely a free-labour nation.'... | |
 | Clement Laird Vallandigham - United States - 1863 - 282 pages
...: Is there "an irrepressible conflict" between the slaveholding and non-slaveholding States? Must " the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina, and the sugar plantations of Louisiana," in the language of Mr. Seward, " be ultimately tilled by free labor, and Charleston and New Orleans... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It /s an irrépressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces; and...entirely a free-labor nation. Either the cotton and rice-fields of South Carolina and the sugar plantations of Louisiana will ultimately bo tilled by free... | |
 | Clement Laird Vallandigham - United States - 1864 - 586 pages
...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... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...entirely a free-labor nation. Either the cotton and rice-fields of South Carolina and the sugar plantations of Louisiana will ultimately be tilled by free... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1865 - 500 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." For this phrase also, "An irrepressible conflict," Mr. Seward has been not less bitterly reviled and... | |
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