Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-21
Lincoln and Seyyard.---TIle ITrePres-
sibie Conflict
/ PLEA FOR UNION.

The republican chiefs, LINCOLN aud ST.
WARD, have both propounded the doctrine Of
an '-irrepreSsible conflict" between the free
and slave States which must end in making
all free CT all slave. The one uttered the
doctrine in 1858, in his memorable canvass
with Mr.. DOUGLAS, the other, at 4 later peri
cd, the same year. at Rochester. Coming
from LINCOLN, local chief, whose name had
never been thought Of in connection with the
Presidency, the doctrine did not arrest eSpe-
cial attention. But when it was proclaimed
by SEWARD, the conservative sentiment OF the
whole country was aroused: in the North TO
a realization of the ultimate aims of reDubIi-
canism; and in tine South, to a sense of the
dangers which the future would bring unless
the party whose leaders held such doctrines
should be overcome The discussions which
the proclamation of his BRUTAL and bloody
doctrine provoked, alarmed the more timid
of the republican leaders, and had SD much
effect upon SEWARD himself, that he took the
earliest opportunity, in the United States
Senate, to make a speech, in which he sought
jesuiticalIy to create the impreSsio that his
views had undergone some modification
Nevertheless, he had become 50 odiOus to the
opposition to rePublieanism, of all parties,
that when the Chicago Convention assembled
It was regarded as discreet TO make some one
else the standard-bearer of the partv LIN
COLIN was chosen, and upon a platform which
apparently made some OneessiOus 10 the OF
position sentiment, COntTasted with the plat
form of IS56. For a time the supporters of
the Chicago nominee appeared to be more
moderate in their views, and less inclined to
make aggTessiOns upon the South; but, as
the canvass progresses, and success seems
probable, they are forgetting their cunning,
and the wicked and REASONABLE character Of
their designs, begin once more TO show them
selves. The Executive Committee of the par
t. at Washington have published. as cam
paign documents. the vindictivc and incendi-
airy speeches made in the last Congress by
LOvEJOY and SUMNER, whilst the N y Tri-
6luHe and other leading organs declare, that
the party will not have performed its mission
when it has prevented the further extension
of slavery; that it has other objects in IT,
war upon slavery TO accomplish.
AAGSC iHuiCdIlUuS- Dut
there are others still more significant. With |
in the present mOnth-On the Sth inst-I re- |
publican demonstration was made at Spring |
field, H., the residence of LINCOLN, aud he |
made brief speech on the occasion. Ia that |
speech he said:
Il am profoundly grateful for this rnanilcs- |
tatiOn ofy your feelings. l am gratiied because |
1t Is Il tribute which can be paid to no man. |
IL is testimony which. four years hence. |
you Will pay to the next man who Is the rep |
resentative of the truth on the questions /
which now agitate the public mind. 1t is an |
evidence that you will fight for this cause /
then, as you now fight for it, and even strong |
er than yOu now fight, though | may be dead |
and gone"
The n. Y. WOrId, the most scrupulous of
AL the Journals that prefer LINCOLN, COM
menting upon this extract. says-'.The ques-
ton will suggest itself to many minds
whether Mr. LINCOLN really means that his
administration is to leave this slavery Iues-
ton in such position as to require an even
stronger fight against the South four years
hence than now. In the face of the pro
fessed principles of both himself and his par
~, he can have no such thought The great
object for which the republican party has
commended hitherto, has been to secure the
Territories for free labor. 1t was to keep
slavery out of Kansas that Colonel Fremont
was pressed with snch energy in 1896. And
1t is to keep slavery out of al the Territories |
that Mr.LINCOLN has been so strongly recon-
mended IN 1860. He has been nominated to
do that at Chicago, and he will be elected to T
do that Bat that done, tghat them That is
the question, and the future peace of the
Union depends upon the answer which that |
question receives II Liere IS to be sozzetbiag
Ulterior, if the defeesiUe policy against slavery
extension is to be succeeded by an aggressive
policy against slzrery-ooHti llaaEce, the country
cannot too soon understand it." 1t must be
this something ulteriOr," this aggressive
policy against slaYery-eOntinuaneeH = the
..irrepressibIe conflict'-which LINCOLN had
in his minds eye when be told his Sprine field
supporters they would fight flour years
bencen even stronger than they fight now.
If he expects to accomplish anything by his |
administration, and of course he does, he |
could not refer to the isolated question OF
keeping slavery out of the Territories; but |
TO something requiring fiercer aud a |
stronger fight. And he, doubtless, intends, |
after he has prevented slavery from getting |
q foOt-hold in the territories, to initiate the |
movement which the 'next man" will be /