Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1859 — Conflict between Freedom and Slavery. [ARTICLE]

Conflict between Freedom and Slavery.

zXccording to Mr. Everett, in his recent oration, Mr. Webster was also a believer in the irrepressable conflict between Freedom and Slavery, the first annunciation of which has been attributed to Mr. Seward. We quote: “He (Mr. Webster,) not only confidently, anticipated what the lapse of seven years since his decease has witnessed and is witnessing, that the newly-acquired and newlyorganized Territories of the Union would grow up into Free States; but in common with all or nearly all statesmen of the last generation, he believed that Free Labor would ultimately prevail throughout the country. He thjught he saw that, in the operation of the same causes which have produced this re-, suit in the Middle and Eastern States, It was visibly taking place in the States north of the cotton-growing region; and he inclined to the opinion that there, also, under the influence of physical and economical causes, Free Labor would eventually be found more productive, and would therefor* be ultimately established.”