A Classic View
�Our country is a theatre, which exhibits, in full operation, two radically different political systems; the one resting on the basis of servile or slave labor, the other on the basis of voluntary labor of freemen. ...
�Hitherto, the two systems have existed in different states, but side by side within the American Union. ... Increase of population, which is filling the states out to their very borders, together with a new and extended net-work of railroads and other av
�Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and endu