 | 1862
...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... | |
 | William Henry Seward - United States - 1852 - 48 pages
...or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible 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 be tilled by free... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - Biography & Autobiography - 1859 - 360 pages
...or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible 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 be tilled by free... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1859 - 572 pages
...slaveholders. SLAVE STATE. A State in which negro slavery exists. Either the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina and the sugar plantations of Louisiana...marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or else the rye fields and wheat fields of Massachusetts and New York must again be surrendered by their farmers... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1859 - 570 pages
...slaveholders. SLAVE STATE. A State in which negro slavery exists. Either the cotton and rice fields of Sonth Carolina and the sugar plantations of Louisiana will...marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or else the rye fields and wheat fields of Massachusetts and New York must again be surrendered by their farmers... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 578 pages
...exists. Either the cotton and riee fields of South Carolina and the sugar plantations of Lonisiana will ultimately be tilled by free labor, and Charleston...marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or else the rye fields and wheat fields of Massachusetts and New York must again be surrendered by their farmers... | |
 | Florida. Legislature. House of Representatives - Florida - 1859 - 280 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - Legislators - 1860 - 486 pages
...upon the northern States, I will read an extract from his Rochester speech : " It is an irrepressible 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 be tilled by... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - Slavery - 1860 - 188 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - Slavery - 1860 - 178 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
