Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-12-16

The FfecmaM's Catechisnn Cn-.I
cerning the Irrepressible Conflicl.
Qaestion-Who FIRST promulgated the doc.
tride Of the irrepressible confiotf
Answer-Tm mas Jefferson.
u. When and where did he promuleate
AIN letter written to friend in 1921
Q.-What did he say
"Nothicg is more certainly writtan IN
the book of fate than that these people (ne.
gro slaves) are to be free nor e Il less
CERTAIN tnat the two forms Of society cannot
% PerPetaated under the same government"
Q.-Who next promulgated it!
A.-Henry Clay.
Q.-When and how did he promugate III
A. In q speech delivered before the
American COLONIZATION Society in 1921.
Q--What did he say
A.-"Until universal darkness and de-.
spair shall prevail it will be impossible to
REPREss the sympathies and the efforts of
free men in behalf Of the unhappy portion
OF our race who are doomed to bondage"
Q--Who endorsed Mr.. Clay's remarks
A.--Daniel Webster.
Q.-Who says 500
A.--Edward Everett.
Q.--Who next promulgated it (
A.-The Richmond Enquirer, q Demo-
cratic newspaper,
Q-When did it promulgate it?
En- the Presidential campaign Of 1856
Q--What did it say /?
A.--''Two opposite and conflicting forms
OF society cannot, among civilized men, 90
exist and endure. The one must give way
ana cease to exist--the other become uni
versal
IF free society be unnatural, immoral and
unchristian. it must fall and give way to
slave society-a social system old as the
world and as universal as man."
Q.--Who next re-stated the fact?
A.--Willian H. Seward.
Q.-When, where and how
Ain speech delivered in Rochester in
Q.-What did he say9
A.-Whllst referring to the collision
which had occurred bet y cen the two sys-
TENS OF labor in the United States, he said,
Ut the collison) is an irrepressible con-
nict between opposing and enduring forces
and it means that the United States must
and Will, sooner or later, become either en-
trely slaveholding nation or entirely
free-labor nation"
Odd he indicate the process by which
they must necessarily become 80
Ale did. He said s'Whilst I con-
fidently believe and hope that INV country
Will yet become land of universal Free.
oom, 90 not expect that it will be made
so otherwise than through the action of the
several States cooperating with the Fede.
raj Government, and all acting in strict con-
formlty with their respective Constitutions
lis there any treason in this :?
A.-Not unless Thomas jefferson, Henry
Clay, Daniel Webster, and the editors of the
Richmond Enquirer were traitors.
To my friend, DR.. Daniel Breed. in bond.
m Warrington, '.Jor expressing his opin.
MY DEAR FRIEND II am of opinion that
our country is running a tremendous race.
| call for halt just at this time, and let
US see where we are going. In November,
1882 you expressed your opinion at the
Capitol OF this great and glorious Rep ublic
this noble lard of boosted Freedom, not
freedom from slavery, but freedom of
speech and freedom of the press. Lot US take
stand point here, and survey the ground a
little.
have been, my dear friend, a spectator
OF political affairs in our beloved country
Tor some years. 1t is true have done nv
own voting, but have had but little to saw
upon the subject-preferring useful reading
to politcal-preferrins when did speak or
write, the subject upon which l thought {
could accomplish some good rather than
JoiD.in the great political turmoil at which
so many are tugging to so little purpose
to sach an injurious purpose.
To our stand point, December, 1859, John
Brown was hung and you expressed an
opinion similar to that of Washington and
Jefferson, and was put in bonds.
We have run wonderful race since the
days of Washington and Jefferson. am Of
opinion that had John Brown lived in those
days, he would have been hung with the
same kind of sympathy Major Andre re-
ceived--sympathy for him personally, and
for his noble character, but not a drop of
sympathy for his military acts against our
country. And had you lived in those days,
your words would have been common place
talk-that of patriot and true friend of his
country. John Brown has done wrong and
you have done right. Why can't our nor
thern and southern men so see and under.
stand it 2 When we were school boys, ten
years old, it would have been an easy lesson
for US to have answered the right and the
wrong of these acts And now we see
newspapers and politicians and statesmen
SO blinded and prejudiced, that they deny
the truth and are worse than liars. Our
nation cannot long survive under such mis-
rule. l call for halt in this awful race.
What has led to this awful folly aud rash
ness and madness
Within our short memory, the statesmen
and everybody at the south, saw, and knew
and confessed that slavery was IAN evil
which had been transmitted to them by |
their fathers, and which they would glad.
ly be rid of if they could" The north
said, let US tend every man to his
neighbours business, and rid our southern
neighbors of this evil. But the south called
for halt, and said let us shift our burden
upon the other shoulder, for it is better We
suffer our own wrong, than that our neigh
bors should be troubled with it. From that
lay the scuth said slavery soos good, bless
ing established By the Great Governor of
human destinies; we are proud of tive
never said it was an evil-it was only rhet-
)rical flourish.
The north part of Oregon was claimed by
he English. We clamored loud and said