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font, in order to 'gratify the aspirations to office o
eight or ten disappointed Southern politicians ?•
But, again, Secession-bids us not only cede to her
half the territory of,the United States, and abro-
gates at one blow the Constitution of Government
that held them together, but, in place of this power-
ful` and prosperous Uhicn, now strong enough for
every legitimate object of domestic or foreign polity,
it substituted at once and of necessity two indepen-
dent and hostile confederacies, separated by-no na-
tural boundary, sure to bo involved in eternal
border wars, besides carrying in their, bosoms the
fatal germ of still fur her and still more raineua
disintegration. All history, all analogy teaches US
that if we could patch up a peace to-morrow
with the 'rebel States, it would be but a temporary
truce, lasing just so long, and no longer, as might
be
.necessary for them to find a pretext for a new
war of aggression and outrage. Their leaders tell
you that they hate, despise, and loathe you; and
they have shown you what paltry and imaginary
grievances they consider a sufficient cause of war.
How is it possible that you can ever live in peace
with them if this first trial of strength, which has
been forced upon us, is decided in their favour ? If
they violate the obligations of the Constitution and
the sanctity of oaths, what respect
,are they going
to pay to the faith of treaties ? If they fly to arms
because an election, in which they took equal part,
has been decided against them, how can we hope to
conduct with them, on amicable terms, the great and
often perplexed relations of independent States?
But Secession -not .only makes this wholesale havoc
of the Constitution and the.Union,it repeals the De-
claration of Independence. I need not say that all
the States of this Union were, four-fifths ora cen-
tury ago, -colonial dependencies of the great Poiiets
of Europe. It is not yet 80 years since England
acknowledged the independence of the old 18 States.
It is less than 60 years since France ceded to us
Louisiana and all the mighty region between the
Mississippi and the Pacific, It is 40 years only since
Spain ceded to us the, Floridas ; and 14 years only
since Mexico, at this moment involved in war with
the great Powers of Europe and in imminent dan-
ger of losinglier independence, in deed if not in word
acknowledged our claim to Texas. If we recognise
Secession we admit the right, not only of the entire
Southern Confederacy .so _called, but (of each_ and
every member of it, to resume at, pleasure, its alle-
giauce_to the ancient Government,
,and thus plant a
European colonial jurisdiction allalongoiir Southern
frontier. So completely has`the frenzy Of the hour
extinguished every spark of patrietitin• In the bosom
of their leaders •that some Of them have declared
their '•preference of a foreign sceptre over the gentle
and beneficent sway of. the Constitution of the
United States.. But whether they desire it or not,
whether this madness extends to the many, or, as
we may charitably hope, is confined to the few, the
recolonisation of the States of —the South by
their "fOrmer European masters is 'an event, if Se-
cession-should prosper, highly probable, in'fact all
but certain, in reference to some of 'them; 141nd:in
reference to none of them greatly otherwise. Break
up the Union ; .let the. two: great sections, of the
country,: hamstring, each other with, the two-edged
sword of border war, and what sufficient proteCtion
would 'texas and Florida have against Spgti; Or
Louidiandagainst France, or any 'of 'them against
'England? There is not one of them; if left to them-
:s6bietrand involved in-war with a foreign ,Power,
whosaiiidependence would be worth a-year's.pur-
Qhase. Nothing has so much amazed_, oiniallthfse
disastrous complications as the filet that men of
pea acity and political experience at the Smith, and
who aspire to the name of Patikits Vtid'ataiestnen,'
should not per ceivelhat in abdicating their posi-
tion as integral members of a strong Government,
and especially one that wields a respectable naval
force, they place themselves not only at the mercy
of the great maritime powers of Europe, but at the'
tinercy of any Government able to send half a dozen
iron-clad steamers to sea. Break down the Union
as a great military and naval Power, and what pro-
iectioti is leftsfor their alluvial shores ? Are not
theorists which are long enough to reach from Lon-
don, Paris, and Madrid to Calcutta and the Philip-
pine Islands, and Tahiti and New Zealand, long
enough to stretch to Charleston, and Pensacola, and
galveston, and New Orleans ? But we have not yet
of 'to 'the bottom of the cup of humiliation Which
Secession places to our lips. Most 'great commer-
cial and naval States think that, in addition to the
fortresses which guard their home ports, it is neces-
sary to possesss some distant harbours of refuge,
End certain remoter stations, that protect the path-
way of their foreign trade. England would as
soon allow Plymouth or Portsmouth to be wrested
from her by a foreign Power as she would Gibral-
tar, or Malta, or Aden,' or Singapore, or
Hong Kong, or Vancouver's Island. Now,
the seceding States not only claim the
right to withdraw from the Union, which
they have no more right to do than Scot-
land or Ireland has to withdraw from the
union with England, but they claim the right to
carry with them the whole line of fortresses which
guard our southern coast, the Florida Channel, the
Gulf of Alexia), and the mouth of the Mississippi—
fortresses required for the safety of our commerce,
built on lands purchased and paid for by the gene-
ral Government, and on islands and sites of which
the jurisdiction has been ceded to the United States.
Nay, they claim the right to,open and shut at plea-
sure the outlets of the Ohio, the Mississippi, and
the Missouri—the most magnificent system of in-
ternal navigation on the face of the globe. Acknow-
ledge Secession, and not a drove of mules could be
sent down from Kentucky, nor a hogshead of to-
bacco from St. Louis, nor a bale of furs from the
Upper Missouri, nor a barrel of pork from Cincitio-fl
nati, nor a keg of nails from Pittsburg, nor a Preat
lead froth Galena or Dubuque, nor a sack
from Davenport, but by the gracious leav:f;
there is a
alien Power. Finally, fellow-citizens, .this
drop of still greater bitterness in the chance The .
triumph of secession involves consequencesa jornitryrao.lynif
three
1,01 material or
,painful than any sacrifice of our 0 . .
bteheen
acontuhae°:,ri:
political interests. Not only are States
at-
inhabitants of the border Sis" •
nntam ridge that
tubed to the Union, but the 123° a lan almost to the
traverses the South, from ALD'Y
an. !al" pelves mainly by the free
„dastrious and frugal po-
Gulf, is inhabited by
Ykstern Virginia, East
pulation, who support thase,
North Carolina, • and
labour of their own_hesstilere
I'Vtaiao little interest in slavery,
Tennessee, and
Northern Alabama
th the
pdrepoB:l3o:chtelfsu
private individuals,
'war which it has forced
aapathY'svi Their citizens, consequently,
and no sy Y)
0 cruelly persecuted by the raffia
Davis, in his late message, affects
which now rules the South with a
Government' of the United States,
uponht
aarvye
rod of it
t With
Mr,
in command,
to
It is the
ito gayer,
andmaking war
fsliar artifice °ll tifiee of
nwrong-doers to charge upon
others the crimes of which they are them-
elves guilty. " Quis tuleret Gracchos de se-
ditione querentes ? For
years past, and in pro-
found Peace, a tutu or woman who should have
expressed at the South opinions adverse to slavery
would have done
so at the risk of life. A senator
Fromm one r othe Southern States made it a matter
of boast that Abolitioni •
sts coming among them
(meaning thereby every Northern man not friendly
to slavery), hung like ripe fruit on the trees. Be-
fore Virginia had seceded, and while her ordinance
of Secession was pending before the people, Mr.
Senator Mason published a letter, on the 16th of
May, 1861, with his name, in answer to the in-
quiries addressed to him as to the position of those
citizens whose principles would not allow them to
vote to separate Virginia from the United States.
If they retain such opinions,' says the merciful
senator, ' they must leave the State.' Yes, dare to
defy the oligarchy at Richmond and vote against
separating from the Union, bequeathed to you by
'your Washington as your sleatest inheritance, and
we banish you from the State. This wholesale