Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-12-17
"THE LRREPRESSiBLE CONFLICT"

According to Democratic authority the Re.
publicans are all "sectionalists," bent on dis.
turbing the peace and harmony of the Union,
while the democrats only are loyal to the Con-
stitution and the Union. According to demo-
cratic authority WIN. II. SEWARD is the arch
agitator, the incarnation of all that is sectional
and reasonable, while the Union generally and
the South particularly are the objects of his
constant scorn and abuse
In speech delivered at Rochester in 1858.
Gov. SEWARD, in reference to the collision
which had occurred between the two systems
OF labor in the United States, said of this colis-
ion:-
ut is an irrcpre sble conflict between opposinp and
enduring forces; and il mems that the United State
must and VIII, sooner or later become either entirely
slave holding nation, or entirely free labor nation
And OF the process by which this result was
to be effected he said
"Whst ! confidently believe and hope that nv
country viii vet become land OF universal freedom
do not expect that it will be made so otherwise thn
urough me action OF the several States cooperating
with the Federal Government aud all acting in strict
conformity with their respective Constitutions"
This is the treason Of Mr. SEWARD, the head
and front Of his offence. For the utterance of
such sentiments he is arraigned as a traitor
and for the expression of this opinion promi-
nenl democratic politicians and prominent dem.
ocratic newspapers threaten to secede from the
Union in case he should be elected President.
Not to notice the patriotism of such threats let
us see it any body else has been or is guilty of
entertaining and uttering similar reasonable
sentiments
In letter written to a friend in 1921, THoM-
AS JEFFERSON said -
Nothing is more certainly written in the book of
inta than that these people (negro slaves) are to be
free; nor is it less certain that the two FORMS Of
cannot DO perpetuated under the me government
In speech delivered before the American
Colonization Society in 1927, HENRY CLAY
said: =
Until universal darkness and despair shall prevail
It Will be impossible to KEPREss the svmpatbes and
me efforts OF freemen in behalf Of the unhappy por
non oil our race who are doomed to bondaged
In 1906, two years before Gov. SEwARp's
Rochester speech The Richmond ENQUIRER
said:-
Teo opposite and conflicting forms of society cannot
among ue'ttzed men, cO-erist and endure The one
must give way, aud cease 10 exis-the other become
universal II free society be unnatural immoral and
~ mus '"'' nlu give way 10 slave society
man." ~"
1t Gov. SEWARD is to be arraigned for trea-
son he will have some democrats of hiyh stand
Sng to keep him company.
during the past week the national House
of Representatives have been greatly exercised
because certain Republican members signed a
accommodation OF book written by South
erner, and known as Helpers Impending Cri-
Sis" This book is denounced as reasonable.
hbellous and false. The passage which has
been oftenest quoted in Congress and the pro-
slavery journals as reasonable and abhorrent,
is that in which the author calls on the cowed
and anti slavery whites of the South to stand
by each other and overthrow the despotism