The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-03-28

"rreedem ard slavery Never vii
AarMsnixe.y
The an.agonism between freedom ant
slavery is implied and indicated in III,
definitions of the terms. The truth, how
ever, il rendered palpable by the history
Of the world for two thousand years. The
battles Of the ages on the field and in the
senate furnish the imperishable records
OF this ever op-going conflict of antago
mist interests and principles.
This truth was known to the aneienIs
as well rs to the moderns Ii is no new
discovery of the present times, and the
fact that it's terse statement in the yraph.
ic terms " irrepressible conflict" has ex-
cited SO much indignation in conserva.
tive minds, only furnishes clear indica
tion of the decentralization wrought by the
domination of the Slave Oligarchy in our
land OF freedom. The idea of the natur-
al incompatibility of freedom and slavery
does not owe Its FIRST expression in words,
however, either to Mr. Seward or Mr..
Lincoln. The Richmond Examiner had
uttered it and argued ii at length, before
either of them had furnished catchw erd
Tor the nation. And the idea rose to the
surface with such universal spontaneitv
throughout the country that we doubt not
Its expression might be traced to still
earlier date in country newspapers, stump
speeches and bar-room wrangles. Indeed,
the Dubuque Times has already unearthed
one such expression of the identical senti-
ment in the old files of the Dubuque Her
aid, and from the pen of the notorious
Dennis Mahoney. Here is the extract
from the Herald, in August, 1858, elected
By the conflict over the Lecompton Con-
stitution:
Freedom and slavery will never har.
monize in the United States, and there
will be trouble while slavery exists as a
political institution. We speak not as
partizan, either way, hut give our opinion
as matter Of fact
That is true, whoever may say it, and
IN whatever terms. The /" irrepressible
conflict of Seward, the divided house,
OF Lincoln, the "neyer harmonize" of
Mahoney, all point to the same fact and
mean the same thing and since their ut !.
terances it has been repeated in thunder
tones at Sumpter and Manassas, at Roa
noke and Fort Donelson, and a score of
other places, whose names will be as "fa-
mlliar as household words to posterity.
The martyrdom of the heroic Lyon and
his brave troops, at Wilson's Greek; the
massacre OF the gallant Baker and his de-
voted followers, at Balls Bluff, and the
terrible slaughter and savage barbarities
In the Ozark Mountains, proclaim the fact
In characters of blood to the world. And
the dark unknown OF eur eountry's histo.
~ In the near present and the distant fu.
ture will add its testimony, whether OF
veal or woe, to the fateful truth tina,
freedom and slavery will never harmon
ize.',
The incompatibility is not simply ha
btual it is constitutional. 1t is not mr.
tlheial and temporary, dependent on tn,
tempers and fashions of the times. bu,
natural and permanent 1t is not Deepen
dent upon the changing customs and pc
culiar laws of men, but is founded in tina,
universal and everlasting law wherein i,
Is declared that God made mankind Of
one blood, to dwell upon the face of the
earth, and endowed them with certain in.
herent rights, amongst which ia Liberty
Freedom, then, is natural, rightful, and
IN accordance with the law of God Will,
slavery is unnatural, wrongful, and in Vi
olation of the law of God. Freedom !,
rght,-slavery is wrong,-and the con
met, therefore, is between good aud evil
between right and wrong,-betweer
the Powers Of Darkness and the Children
OF the Light,-betweeu God and the Arcl
Enemy of God and man.
In tins view. when should the conflic
cease when will it be at an end forever,
Only, If Gods word be true, when tn,
victor, OF freedom shall be complete ane
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