Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-10-11
The lIrrepressibIe Conflict Again-Mr.
Seward

We see some of the Southern press beginning to
apologize for Black Republicanism, and represent
ing it as quite moderated, and likely TO be very
harmless in the control of the General Government
We give extracts from Mr.. SEwARD's late speech
ut ST. Paul's Minnesota, to show the unchanged
policy of thisspsrty:
l can look southwark and see, amid all the convul
sions that are breaking up the ancient provinces Of
Spain, the Spanish American RepublcS-see IN their
decay and dissolution the preparatory stage for their
reorganization eff Free equal and independent mem
bers of the United States of America. Standing on
such an eminence and looking with that far distant
range of vision, can now look down on the states
and the people of the Atlantic cOast-ot Maine and
Massachusetts and New York and Pennsylvania, ana
Virginia and the Csroljnas and Georgia and Lousl-
/ ana and Texas, and round by the Pacific coast to
California and Oregon can hear their disputes,
their fretful controversies their threats taI II telr
own separate interests are not grained ana con-
suited by the Federal Government they will sepa-
rate from this Unon-wil secede from 1t, VIII DIS
solve it; and while hear on their busy SIDEWALKS
these camOrous contentious am able to say, Feace'
be still These subjects of contention and dispute
that so rrtate and anger and provoke you, are but
| ephemeral and temporary. These institutions winch
YOU so much desired to conserve and for which you
would sacrifice the welfare of the people OF this
continent are almost as ephemeral as yourselves
| The man is born to-day who will live to see the
| American Union, the American peOple-the whole
| of them-comIng into the harmonious understand
| ing that this is the land of the free mentor the
free men-that 1t the land for the white man; and
that whatever elements there are to disturb lis
present peace rrtate the passions OF Its possess
ors will in the end-and that end will come before
| lung-pass away, without capacity IN any way TO
disturb the harmony OF or endanger this great Union
| IApPlause.l
Certainly. since we can lay so little claim to hav-
| ing produced these results by our own work. or
| wisdom or virtue what could it have been but that
| overriding power which, by Its higher law, controls
| even the pervcrse wills of men, and which means
that this shall be- henceforth and forever, as 1t was
| established in the beginning, land not OF slavery
| but a land of freedom. (Cheers.)
| Fellow citizens, either in one way or the
| other whether you agree with me In attriDut
ing 1t to the interpositon OF Divine Providence or
not this battle had been fought, this victory has
been won Slavery to-day is, for the first time, not
only poweress. but without influence in the Amerl-
can republic. The serried ranks Of party after party
which rallied under 1t to sustain and support IT, are
| broken and dissolved under the pressure OF the
| march-the great and powerful marCh-of the
American people, determined to restore freedom to
its original and just position the government For
the first in the history OF the United states, no
man in a free State can be brbed to vote for slav-
cry. The government of the United States has moi
| the power to make good bride or a seduction by
which to make and convert democrats to support
| slavery (Applause) For the 6rst time IN the his
tory of the republic the slave power has no. even
the power to terrify alarm the freeman so as 10
make him submit, and scheme, and cOnclde,and COM
promise 1t rails now with feeble voice, as II
hundred in our ears for twenty or thirty years past
With feeble and muttering voice they cry out that
they will tear the Union to pieces. (DerslVe laugh
teri Who's afraid daughter and cries Of No
one" They complain that if we will not surrender
our principles and our system, and our rlght-De
ing malority-to rule, and if we will not accept
| their system and such rulers as they Will give us
they will go out OF the Union. Who's afraid !
| Q.aughter) Nobody afraid: nobody can be bought
Now fellow citizens let ask you, since you are so
prompt at answering-supposet that any time with
in the last forty yeart we could have found Amerl-
can people in the free States everywhere just as
they are everywhere in the free States now-ln
| such a condition that there WAC no party that
could be bought nobody that could be scared-how
much sooner do you think this revolution would
have come in which arc now engaged: l do
not believe there has been one day since 1857 until
now when slavery had any power in this Govern
mcnt except what it derived from buying up men
of weak virtue principle and great cupdlty, and
| terrifying men of weak nerve in the free States.
! Laughter and applause) This battle Is fought and
this victory is won. provided that you stand deter
mined to maintain the great Republican party, un-
der its great and glorious leader, Abraham Lincoln
in inaugurating its principle into the Administration
! of the Government, and provided you stand by nm
in hs administration if it shall be- as trust II shall,
| u wise and lust and good one, until the adversary
shall find out that he has been beaten and shall vol
UNFAIRLY retire from the field. (Appluase) A voice
-(.We,n do it'O Unless you do thatthere is still
danger that all that has been gained may be lest.