Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-10-10
Abolitionized Republicanism.
THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT AND
UNIVERSAL NEGRO EQUALITY.


William II. Seward, the apostle Of the
higher law" and the "irrepressible con.
dict" and the advocate of the election of
Abraham Lincoln, because / e is pledged
to these lawless doctrines, has been max
ing speeches in the Western States, in
which he advocates, with ability and in
genuity, principles that, if carried into
the administration of the Government.
must inevitably produce discord and end
in the destruction of the Union. In a
speech delivered on the 22d of September
last, Mr.. Seward used the following Lam
guage, as reported in the New York Tli-
5mc:
will dwell for one moment on this
extraordinary scene, full of assurance on
many points, and interesting to every one
.of you as it is TO ne. 1t teaches that
there is no difference whatever in the ma
ture, constitution, or character ofthe peo-
pie of The several States of this Union. or
of the several sections of this Union. -
They are all of one nature, birth, and ed.
,ucated in the same sentiments, Although
many OF them came from distant lands.
still the very fact of them being American
Ici,izens is sufficient to make them all a.
like. ! will tell you why this is so. The
reason is simply this The Democratic
principle that every man ought TO be the
owner Of the soil that he cultivates and
the owner Of the limbs and the head he
applies to that culture, has been adopted
in some of the States earlier than in oths
ers and where it was adopted earliest it
has worked out fhe fruits Of higher ads
vancemcnt, of greater enterprise, of great
er prosperity. Where it has not been a,
dsptcd, enterprise and industry have Ian
guished in proportion. But Il IS qoinq hro' ::
Il IS bound 10 90 Hroagh As Il has alrca,h,
gone through eighteen States ofth5 Union. So Il
Is bound 10 90 through theother fifteen. n
IS bomd to 90 through adhs hirty.lrce states
@He Union, for the simple reason that IL is Co
ING THROUGH THE WORLD. Enthusiastic
cheering.
The reader of the above extract will at
once perceive that it announces in sub.
stance the same principle which both
Seward and Lincoln have heretofore pro.
claimed, viz: that an irrepressible conflict
exists between freedom and slavery, and
that the conflict will not and ought not
to cease until all the States of tbs Union
Decome unlform-that Is, unll the time
when the pressure of anti-slavery opinion
in the North drives the South into the e.
Emancipation Of slaves. How or when
this is 10 be accomplished, Mr. Seward
does not indicate whether it is 10 be
done by the quiet and irresistible growth
OF anti.slaveryism, operating upon the
South so as to render slave property wort
HESS tlom the dangers and insecu rites
attending their possession or whether
it is to be accomplished upon the John
Brown "throttllng" system. Mr.. Seward
deals in generalities,. He steers clear of
those specifications which would tend to
illustrate the immediate dangers attend
ing the practical developement of his i'd
eas, and would show their real revolution
airy character. But his ultimate object ia
not left in doubt. lie tells us in lanp