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As Governor of New York he had refused to move against those who rescued slaves, passed laws to hinder the recapture of runaways, and in a memorable speech in 1858 coined the phrase "irrepressible conflict", which "means that the U.S. must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slave-holding or entirely a free-labour nation".

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As Governor of New York he had refused to move against those who rescued slaves, passed laws to hinder the recapture of runaways, and in a memorable speech in 1858 coined the phrase "irrepressible conflict", which "means that the U.S. must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slave-holding or entirely a free-labour nation".

Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

They saw that the North was gaining a huge superiority to the South; that the people were slowly consolidating; that when the free-labour interest did finally concentrate, it would carry every Northern interest with it, and, when the pinch came, no

The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

The Americans are teaching the man that the fruit of his labour is his own, and, for that purpose, market-places are established at many centres on the coast with the hope of inculcating free-labour notions, so that the seller can get cash for his goods and keep it.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

They seemed clannish, too, with an unemployed or free-labour sort of isolation.

Over the Sliprails Henry Lawson 1894

Defends distinction between free-labour and slave-labour sugar.

The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880

Separated as these people are from Eastern Virginia by physical barriers similar to those which divide Savoy from Italy, and united to the adjacent free-labour States by similar pursuits and moral and political sympathies, it is very improbable, come what may, that the old territorial arrangements will ever be restored.

London, Saturday, November30, 1861 1861

The number in the free-labour States, the district of Columbia, and the Territories is 223,073; in the adhering Slave States, 116,750; in the eleven Seceded States,

The Civil War in America 1861

Louisville Journal; and of Cassius Clay, the heroic champion of free-labour principles on Kentucky soil, who has lately been appointed by Mr. Lincoln to represent the United States at the

The American Revolution. The Border Slave States 1861

The fear that the slaves will not work when freed is a very convenient excuse to avoid meeting the very question of emancipation upon its merits; but the reading public may be assured that if the planters came into the plan of emancipation in a proper spirit and temper there would be no difficulty in the way of getting their work done on the free-labour plan.

A Narrative of Events of the Life of J. H. Banks, an Escaped Slave, from the Cotton State, Alabama, in America. 1861