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 slave-holding nation or entirely a free-labor nation. The Vassar Miscellany - Page 91881Full view - About this book
| 1862
...labour and slave labour as antagonistic systems," he says, "It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the...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
...agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the...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... | |
| Benson John Lossing - Men - 1890 - 312 pages
...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... | |
| David W. Bartlett - Biography & Autobiography - 1859 - 360 pages
...agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the...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... | |
| Florida. Legislature. House of Representatives - Florida - 1859 - 280 pages
...ho cannot yet be reduced to bondage ; one who says thera is an " irrepressible conflict" between " opposing and enduring forces," and it means that the...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... | |
| James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 556 pages
...states, I will read an extract from his Rochester speech : "It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces • and it means that...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... | |
| Thomas Prentice Kettell - Slavery - 1860 - 198 pages
...in the United States Senate, Feb. 29, 1860. October, 1858. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the...slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation. February, 1860. "The whole sovereignty upon domestic concerns within the TJnion is divided between... | |
| Thomas Prentice Kettell - Slavery - 1860 - 186 pages
...in the United States Senate, Feb. 29, 1860. October, 1858. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the...either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a tree-labor nation. February, 1860. "The whole sovereignty upon domestic concerns within the Union is... | |
| Tennessee - Law - 1860 - 764 pages
...agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the...either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a Iree- labor nation. Either the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina, and the sugar plantations... | |
| Tennessee - Law - 1860 - 760 pages
...agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the...either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a Iree- labor nation. Either the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina, and the sugar plantations... | |
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