The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-03-30
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) WEBSTER ON PEAcEABrE SEcVssIoN .'--M
e President, | should much prefer to have hea
f from every member on this floor declaralio
of opinion that this Union should never
dissolved than the declaration or opinion tn
in any case, under the pressure of any circur
y stances, snch a dissolution was possible {.
hear with pain and anguish, and distress Il
n word secession-esPecially when it falls fro
the lips Of those who are eminently patriot
: and known to the country, and known all ovl
. the world for their political service. Secel
ssion! Peaceable secession! Sir, yoGr eye
, and mine are never destined to see that mil
arle. the dismembetMeAt Of this vast coun
try without convulsion! The bursting up o
the fountains Of the great deep wit out riff
fling the surface! Who is so fpolish-I beI
every hody's pardoD-as TO expect TO see am
such thing! Sir, he who sees these States
now revolving in harmony around a common
centre, can expect to see them quit their places
and fly off without CONFUSION, may look Of
the next hour to see the heavenly bodies rush
from their spheres aud %jostle against each 9th,
or In the realms Of space without producing
a cTash in the universe. There can be no
such thing as q peaceable secession, Peace
able secession lie an utter impossib lily, Is
tine great constitution un er which we live
here-coVeTing this whole cOuntry-is it to be
thawed and mel,e away by secession, as the
SHOWS on the mountain melt under the inAu-
once OF a vernal sum- disappear almost un
observed, and die off? No, sit! No, sir! |
will not state what might produce the disrup.
ton Of The States, but, cir, | see il as plainly
as | see the sEn in heaven-I see that disruo.
ton must produce such q war osI will not des.
cribe in its twofold consequences.
Peaceable secession !-peaceable secession!
The concurrent agreement Of all the members
OF this great republic to separate! A volun-
taTy separation, alimony on one eide and on
the other WHY, what would be the result
Where i8 the line to be drawn? What STATE s
are to secede? What is to remain Americapq
What am | to be? Where is the flag Of the
to remain! Where is the eagle sti1
to tower! or is he to cover and shrink ard
to the ground? Why, pir, our ancestors
-our fathers and our grandfathers, those Of
them that would rebuke and reproach rs with
prolonged lives, would rebuke and r~eproach
u.s. and our children and our grandchildren
cry out shame upon US, If we Of this
generation should dishonor these ensiens of
The power Of the Government and the har
nOny OF the Union which is everv dav felt
IHiongSt Us with so much jov and gratitude
What is to become Of the army? What is to
become Of the navy? What is to become Of
he public lands? How is each Of the thirty
States to defend itself? know, although the
deO has not been stated distinctly. There ia
De a Southern COnfederacy, perhaps. l do
rot mean, when I alladeF to this statement,
nat any one seriously contemplates such a
tate Of things. | do not mean to saw that II
: true, but / have heard ii suggested elsewhere
he idea has originated ffom d design 10
am sorry, cir, that It has ever
'een thought OF, talked of, dreamed of, in the
Widest fights Of human imaginations. Blu,
he IDEA muat be Of separation including the
lave states upon Ona side and the free States
IN the other. Sir, there is not-sI may express
myself too strongly perhaps-but something's,
ONE moral things, are almost as impossible
IS other natural or physical things; and |
lold the idea OF a separation of these States.
hose that are free TO form one government
md those that are slaveholding to form nnoth-
u, as . moral impossibility. We could not
the States by any such line il we
to draw it. We could not sit down here
and draw a line desperation that would
'atisty any five men in the country. There
IRE natural causes that would keep and lie
together-social and domestic Relations
we could not break, if we would. and
we should not il we could. Sir. M.
BODY can look over the face Of this count,v
/" 'ne present moment-no body can see
"here It's population is the most dense and
without being ready to admit. and
to admit, that ere long America
will De IN the valley Of the Mississippi.
Well now, sir, | beg to inquire whn. the
widest en'huslasth has to say on The possibility
cutting of that river and leaving free
states at tie source and it's branches, and slave
states down near its mouth? PRAY, cir. urav
let me say TO the people Of this country
mat these things are worthy Of their ponder.
Ag and Of their confederation. Here air. ara
i've millions OF Resmen in the free st.,ao
l"r'h Of the river ohic; can any body suppose
its population can be severed by n lin
divides them from territory Of a loreion
ND an an alren Government, down somewhere
ne Lord knows where, upon the lower bank
II the Missis0ippi7 What would become Of
Wills size join the reimbursement Of
ne slave Statssl Shall the man from the
I elbow Stonsand the Mad River be conaectsd
= Tue new Republic with tho man who liver,