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"While we can see no cause for present alarm, none can blind their eyes to the audacity of the attempt, or fail to regard it as a pregnant sign of the times--a prelude to what must and will recur again and again, as the progress of sectional hate and Black Republican success advances to their consummation."

The South's leading fire-eater organ (the Rhetts' paper), one day after the raid's suppression: not an isolated crime but a prelude proving coexistence with the North untenable.

Read it in the original — Furman Secession Era Editorials transcription ↗

"Mr. Seward's friends defend him, by asserting that he wants to carry out these destructive tendencies only through constitutional means; but they might as well argue that a murderer does not wish to kill a man, but only to cut his jugular vein. Should William H. Seward ever be elected President of the United States, his brutal and bloody "irrepressible conflict," started by political demagogues in Kansas, and blooming again at Harper's Ferry, will spring into life and action in all the northern border counties of the slave States."

Bennett's Herald, two days after the raid, pins Harpers Ferry on Seward's 'irrepressible conflict' doctrine ahead of the New York election. From rough microfilm OCR, reconciled per policy ('Shquld' -> 'Should').

Read it in the original — LoC scan, NY Herald, Oct 19, 1859, p. 6 ↗