 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 - Stran 508avtor: James Washington Sheahan - 1860 - 528 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 604 strani
...good of freedom with the evil of slavery. He averred that between the two there was a collision. " It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...slave-holding nation or entirely a free-labor nation." ' Few speeches from the stump have attracted so great attention or exerted so great an influence. The... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1892 - 398 strani
...incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can; . . . it is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...slave-holding nation or entirely a free-labor nation. . . . It is the failure to apprehend this great truth that induces so many unsuccessful attempts at... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure - 1892 - 508 strani
...school fund. It was Seward's record on that single question when Governor of New York that made him an * It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...slaveholding nation or entirely a free-labor nation .—Seu'ard's speech at Rochester, October 25, 1858. But there is a higher law than the Constitution... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1892 - 618 strani
...work of interested or fanatical agitators, and, therefore, ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slave holding nation or entirely a free labor nation. Either the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper - 1892 - 1144 strani
...Wm. H. Seward on October 25th following, at Rochester, NY, expressed the same idea in these words : " It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...enduring forces, and it means that the United States will sooner or later become either an entire slaveholding Nation, or an entirely free labor Nation."... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1893 - 672 strani
...been quoted. Speaking of the constant collisions between the systems of free and slave labor, he said: "It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing...slave-holding nation or entirely a free-labor nation. I certainly shall never directly or indirectly give my vote to establish or sanction slavery in the... | |
 | John Torrey Morse - 1893 - 412 strani
...afterward, Oct. 25, 1858, Mr. Seward made the speech at Rochester which contained the famous sentence: "It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing...slave-holding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation." Seward's Works, new edition, 1884, iv. 292. But Seward ranked among the extremists and the agitators.... | |
 | John Joseph Lalor - 1893 - 1154 strani
...would be correct, that "there is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, which means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholdinji nation or entirely a free labor nation." This belief of Douglas will account for the... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - 1894 - 392 strani
...work 15 of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephem\ eral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible ' conflict between opposing...become either entirely a slave-holding nation, or I 20 entirely a free-labor nation. Either the cotton and ricefields of South Carolina and the sugar... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 696 strani
...or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irreprestible 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... | |
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