...wisest actions. A few mouths later, (October,) Mr. Seward made another prediction, at Rochester, NY " It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...slaveholding nation or entirely a free-labor nation." John Early in the same year, one of the Kansas freeBrown's state leaders, John Brown, told his friends...

...the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the rase altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and...and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a •lave-holding nation or entirely a free-labor nation." WH SEWARD, IN 1858. " Our own banner is inscribed...

...that Mr. SEWARD would be Secretary of State. In his " Irrepressible conflict " speech he had asserted that the " United States must and will, sooner or...slave-holding nation or " entirely a free-labor nation." These declarations of hostility to the South had been repeated oftener as the canvass approached a...

...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...

...interested or fanatical agitators mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between two opposing and enduring forces; and it means that the...slave-holding nation, or entirely a freelabor nation." These men merely echoed the sentiments which were the outgrowth of years of agitation, as Stephen A....

...irrepressible conflict between opposing1 and enduring forces; and it means that the United States in ist and will, sooner or later, become either entirely...slave-holding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation." In this same Springfield speech Mr. Lincoln gave the best interpretation ever made of the popular term...

...fanatical agitators. an<l therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It in an irrcja-rttiNt conflict between opposing and enduring forces; and it means that the United State* mast and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slave-holding- nation, or entirely...

...continually coming in closer contact, and collision ensues. " Shall I tell you 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...

...States must, and will, sooner or later, become entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free labor nation. Either the cotton and rice fields of South...plantations of Louisiana, will ultimately be tilled by free-labor, and Charleston and New Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or else the...

...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-labor,...