Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-03-07
N. o. WALLACE, Editor.
FAYETTEVILLE. TENN:
Thursday Morning, March I, 1861
Seward and Lincoln.

Nv "uiu Wuu AsuVVlus
Whichever of the leaders of the
Republican party, the past or the
present, the rejected or the adopted,
the setting or the rising sun, Seward
or Lincoln, is to have the credit Of
originating the 'sirrepressible conflict
in our party politics, there is Won
dersul similarity 10 their views on
the subject. They both treat tho
question in reference to the general
Cover nmept and the institutions of
the States, upon the absurd and ex-
ploded old Federal notion which
regarded the Union as a consolidated
government. instead OF confederacy
|of independent sovereignties, com
bined for certain express purposes,
but retaing all rights and powers not
expressly delegated to the common
agency Of the general government.
One has been a close student and
accurate copyist Of the other, of the
fallacy that the people Of New York
cannot live under their constitution
and laws and institutions formed by
the mselves, without interference from
any quarter, in peace and security
i in the Uuion, because South Caro-
lima, an equal in the same Union,
under her 0wn laws and institutions,
formed 10 the possession of the same
rights and powers, recognizes slavery,
as New York did, until 10 her own
time, and way, she saw fit to change
her laws in that respect. The Wonder
is, that two men, claiming position,
could be found advancing SO far
fetched an a5surdity; but the Repub-
lIican leader aud ex-leader certainly
lconear in it. Here is their record: -
! Extract from Mr.. Seward's Roches-
ter Speech.
s'Shall | tell you what this coils
ion means? They who think it is
accidental. unnecessary, the work Of
interested or fanatical agitators, and
therefore erhemeral, mistake the case
altogether. 1t isan irrepressible con
fsct between opposing and enduring
forces, and it means that the United
States must and will, sooner or later
become either entirely a slavehold.
ing nation, or entirely free labor
'. nation. Either the cotton and rice
fields Of Sonth C,rolina and sugar
plantations Of Louisiana will ulti.
mately be titled by free labor: and
Charleston and New Orleans become
maris for Legitimate Merchandise
alone, or else the rye fields and wheat
fields of Massachusetts aud New
York must again be surrendered by
the farmers to slave culture and to
the productions of slaves, aud Boston
and New York become once more
the markets for trade ID the bodies
and souls Of men,"
Extract from Mr.. Liacola's Spring
field Speech. June II. 1858.
81 believe this government cannot
endure permanently half slave and
half free. do moi expect the Union
to be dissolved. / do not expect the
house to fall; but | do expect it to
cease TO be divided. 1t will 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
r. ultimate extinction, or its advocates
/ will push it forward till it shall become
alike lawful in al! the States, old as
we'll as new-North as well as South. "
>s.~O.~.--
! The New York Tribune, paper
lin the confidence Of Mr.. Lincoln,
makes tho following announcement:
"a friend, who has just had a
prolonged and confidential interview
with Mr.. Lincoln at Springfield.
writes US that Mr.. 1. Is ihrariably
OPPOSED. TO ALL COMPRO.
MISSES, NO MATTER IN WHAT
TENSE!"