The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-07-04
IFrom the New York Herald
WHO Is THE AUTHOR OF THE. IRE
PRESSIBLE C0NFL1CT?

It is discovered now, when it is too late,
that William H. Seward is not the originator
of the irrepressible conflict, for which he has
been rendered so obnoxious to the conserva-
tive classes, and has been thrown overheard at
Chicago as not available for the Presidency,
but that Abram Lincoln, OF Illinois, the noml-
nee of the Republican Convention, who, In
his contest with Douglas for the United States
Senatorship of Illinois, proclaimed the revolu-
tionary doctrine six months in advance of Sew
ard. in language as strong as that employed ny
the Senator from New York. This was ad-
mitted by the Tribune on Monday last, which
quoted the speech of Lincoln, and said it was
all right. Lincoln is, therefore, the real au-
thor Of the irrepressible conflict, though Gree
lev and Blair slaughtered Seward as the au-
| thor in order to make way for old fogy Bates.
Lincoln says "the Government cannot en-
dnre permanently half slave and half free;' 1T
"must become all one thing or all the other;"
"either the opponents of slavery will arrest the
| further spread of it and place it where the
| public mind shall rest in the belief that it is
| in the course of ultimate extinction, or its ad
vocates will push it forward" &c. Here Is
the identical irrepressible conflict on the ques-
ton of slaTery, for'whose "ultimate extinction
the Republican party is organized, with Lin
| coin for it's standard bearer. Seward merely
took up what Lincoln originated, and every
body knows that in Mr.. Stewards mouth the
doctrine had a very different meaning from
what it had with Lincoln. In his speech in
the United States Senate, after his return from
Europe, Mr. Seward greatly modified his Roch-
ester speech. Mr.. Seward Is naturally and
constitutionally a conservative man. He Is
highly educated, polished gentleman, a sa-
gacious statesman, of great experience in pub
lie affairs. the facize princeos Of the Republi-
can party. He is amiable, moreover, In his
manners, and benevolent in his private char
acter It is very generally believed, there
| fore, by those who know him best, and even
by his political opponents, that, however he
NAV have PLAYED with fanatical passions for
political purposes, yet, if he were elevated to
the Presidency, would disappoint the hopes
of the Abolitionists, and be as conservative as
any President who ever filed the chair of the
chief 1nagistraey. -
This is more than any one can say or think
of the rough-spun, disputatious village polltl-
1 clan who is unknown as the "Honest Abe Lin
COLI, - honest, because he has the reputation
| of being as truculent as he promises, and, like
John Brown, means what he says. Seward
was refined Republican, whom his party
could not force beyond his own Judgment
4 Lincoln is exactly of the same type as the
! traitor who was hung at Charleston-an Abo-
litionist of the reddest dye, liable to be led to
extreme lengths by other men. Without edu-
4 cation or refinement, he will be the playthlng
of his party, whirled along in the vortex of
passion if he should gain the control of the
i Government. The comparison between Sew
ard and this illiterate western boor is odious-
! it is as Hyperion to satyr. Lincoln has In
an aggravated and vIrulent degree all that
4 rendered Seward unpopular with the conserv-
ative classes, while he has none of those re-
deeming qualities and gifts of genius which
distinguishes the son of New York. ea
i Seward has been now twice defeated by his
own party, and served after the same manner
as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John G.
Calhoun Like them he will become great
historical character in his own day. Hence
forth he belongs to the history of his country
: His public career is virtually closed. He can
no longer take any interest in the success. of a
party which has proved itself as unworthy Of
; him. IF he should remain in the u. s. Senate
i which we very much dodbt-his future path
D will not be that of the partizan chief. He will
3 be Mentor in the councils of the nations
E Nestor, to whose wisdom younger Senators
!. will look UP. The envy and rivalry which
: have made him martyr viii be buried in hi
. political grave, and his merits will be appreei
ated even in his lifetime, when it is found tina
f he no longer stands in the way of the vaultins
ambition of other men. On his tomb will b.
n inscribed, tsHere lie the remains of William Fl
It Seward, one Of the age-done to death at Chi
:, cago, on the 18th of May, 1860, by the hand
r, of Horace Greeley, of New York or Oregon
: and Francis P Blair (old Blair, of the Globe
now of Silver Springs and other conspiratorS
is He fell, covered with innumerable wounds
l. most of them in his back In his dying agon
+ he turned reproachful look on Greeley, and
le in the words of stabbed Caesar to Brutus, ez
claimed, 'Et tn quoque, Brute ="