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William H. Seward on War

1801–1872 United States

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It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.

On the Irrepressible Conflict (1858)

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