| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irreprestible conflict between opposing and enduring forces; and...slave-holding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation. Either the cotton and rice-fields of South Carolina and the sugar plantations of Louisiana will ultimately... | |
| Elbert B. Smith - United States - 1975 - 252 pages
...irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces," and it meant that the United States must "sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation." A revolution, said Seward, had already begun: "Twenty Senators and a hundred Representatives proclaim... | |
| Milton Martin Klein - History - 2001 - 1102 pages
...on October 25, he characterized the conflict between North and South in the most radical terms yet: "It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing...either entirely a slave-holding nation, or entirely a free labour nation." With the national debate over slavery as backdrop, New York's parties turned their... | |
| James M. McPherson - History - 1988 - 952 pages
...physical, moral and social energies of the whole State." A collision between these two systems impended, "an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring...and it means that the United States must and will . . . become either entirely a slave-holding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation."61 Southerners... | |
| James M. McPherson - History - 2003 - 947 pages
...physical, moral and social energies of the whole State." A collision between these two systems impended, "an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring...and it means that the United States must and will . . . become either entirely a slave-holding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation."61 Southerners... | |
| Roger L. Ransom - Business & Economics - 1989 - 340 pages
...the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. 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.66 Such rhetoric did not go unanswered.... | |
| Robert N. Rosen - Charleston (S.C.) - 1994 - 232 pages
...work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. lt is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation. Either the cotton and rice-fields of South Carolina and the sugar plantations of Louisiana will ultimately... | |
| Paul Finkelman - History - 2012 - 372 pages
...in Rochester, New York, that an "irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces . . . means that the United States must and will, sooner...slaveholding nation or entirely a free-labor nation." Seward had already alienated constitutional unionists in 1850, when he claimed that a "higher law than... | |
| Marc Egnal - History - 1996 - 317 pages
...happiness throughout all its mountains and plains?" 31 And in a widely quoted speech, he observed: "It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing...slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation." 32 The beliefs Seward espoused must be set in a broader context. The ideology of free labor affirmed... | |
| Michael J. Sandel - History - 1998 - 436 pages
...William Seward stated in 1858, that there was "an irrepressible conflict" between North and South, that "the United States must and will, sooner or later,...slave-holding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation." As Republican Theodore Sedgwick asserted on the eve of the Civil War, "The policy and aims of slavery,... | |
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