Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-15

"Either the cotton and rice fields of South Caro-
lima and the sugar plantations Of Louisiana, will Ill
timately be titled by free labor and Charleston and
New Orleans become marts for legitimate merchan-
disc alone, or else the rice fields and wheat fields OF
Massachusetts, and New York must again be sur
rendered BY their farmers TO slave culture and to
the production of slaves; and Boston and New York
become once more markets for trade in the bodies
ard souls of men,
The above is a sentiment uttered by Mr.. SEWARD
in his Rochester speech This is the "Irrepressible
Conflict doctrine. At first it was believed TO be
original with the New York Senator. Since the
Chicago nomination, however If has been established
beyond doubt by the Black Republican press and
speakers that their present candidate, Mr. LINCOLN,
uttered the same sentiment near two years before
Mr.. SEwARD;s Rochester speech. They claim the
paternity Of it for Mr. LINCOLN. Mr.. SEWARD is now
stumpng the Northwest for LINCOLN. In his recent
Boston speech he put his candidate for the Presi-
dency on the highest Black Republican ground
LINCOLN and SEWARD stand together. The Irrepres-
sible Conflict doctrine enunciated by each Of them
stands unexplained and unretractedn by both. Tbs
Banner on the 4th of November, 1883 commenting
on the above extract from Stewards speech used the
following language, from which may be determined
the position that the Banner viii occupy in the even
of ISco1Ns election, unless there should have beer
a change in its estimate of Black Repubcanisn
within the last two years. Read for yourselves:
I ssThe uttrance of such an infamous sentiment ha!
placed Senator Seward within the pale of the aboi
| ton organization. Heretofore he has made somt
pretension to nationality and has professed to be
Republican. But when he declares that the country
must and will become wholly free or wholly slave
territory and that the party to which he belongs Il
devoted to the taskOf making that country free. HI
places himself by the side Lloyd Garrison and Ger
rit Smith, He no longer has the shGdo1o OF clam
to nationality, and do not hesitate to declare tina
the election of such man 10 the Presidency woul'
be the instant signal for the dissolution of the Union
With the avowal of such a sentiment upon his lip
he would 20 into the Presidential chair, if elected
pledged to use the power and patronage of the Gel
eral Government for the extinction of slavery
Such interference or such pledge to interfere wit
the domestic affairs of the Southern people woul
not be tolerated one moment. We know the threat
of the South have become contemplate in the eye
of the North, from having been made so often with
out any intention of carrying them into execution
We never indulge in the idle luxury of maxim
threats, but we state it as fact which cannot b
disputed or denied that the Federal Union could nc
exist single day after the election of William I
Seward to the Presidency while the above declare
ton is unexplained and unretracted He made
for the purpose of securing'the Republican nomni
ton but we feel well assured that if nominated
all it will be by the aboltionists and not by the r.
publicans We believe there is so much coHseryi
} tism in the North that Seward will not receive
larger vote than given to Birney in 1874"