{"id":11099,"date":"2021-01-27T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=3067"},"modified":"2020-12-09T13:55:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T18:55:33","slug":"rutherford-b-hayes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/rutherford-b-hayes-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>January 27, 1861<\/em>.\u2014Six States have &#8220;seceded.&#8221; Let them go. If the Union is now dissolved it does not prove that the experiment of popular government is a failure. In all the free States, and in a majority if not in all of the slaveholding States, popular government has been sucessful. But the experiment of uniting free states and slaveholding states in one nation is, perhaps, a failure. Freedom and slavery can, perhaps, not exist side by side under the same popular government. There probably is an &#8220;irrepressible conflict&#8221;\u00b9 between freedom and slavery. It may as well be admitted, and our new relations may as well be formed with that as an admitted fact.<\/p>\n<p>_______<\/p>\n<p>\u00b9 This phrase had first been used by William H. Seward in a speech at Rochester, New York, October 25, 1858.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 27, 1861.\u2014Six States have &#8220;seceded.&#8221; Let them go. If the Union is now dissolved it does not prove that the experiment of popular government is a failure. In all the free States, and in a majority if not in all of the slaveholding States, popular government has been sucessful. But the experiment of uniting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":93673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diary-and-letters-of-rutherford-birchard-hayes"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Rutherford-B.-Hayes-young.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}