Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1850-04-11

seriously contemplates such state of
things. do not mean to say that il is
true, but have heard it suggested else
where that the idea has originated from
a design TO separate. l am sorry, sir,
tha, it has ever been thought of, talked
Of, or dreamed of, in the wildes, flights
of human Imagination. But the idea
mus, be of a separation including the
slave States upon one side and the free
States on the other.
Sir, there is not--I may express my
self too strongly perhaps--but some
things, some moral things, are almost
as impossible as other natural or phys.
cal things; and l hold tie idea of sep
aration Of these States, those that are
free TO form one government and those
that are slaveholding, to form another.
as a moral impossiblity. We would
not separate the States by any such line
if we were to draw it. We could not
sit down here to-day and draw line of
separation that would satisfy any five
men in the country. There are natu-
raj causes that would keep and tie US
together--social and domestic relations
which we could not break if we would
and which we should not if we could.
Sir, nobody can look over the face Of
this country at the present moment
nobody can see where its population is
the most dense and growing, without
being ready to admit, and compelled to
admit, that ere long, America will be in
the valley of the Mississippi.
Well, now, sir. l beg TO inquire what
the widest enthusiast has 10 say on the
possibility of cutting off that river and
leaving free States at its source and its
branches, and slave States down near
its mouth! Pray, sir, pray, sir, let me
say to people of this country that these
things are worthy Of their pondering
and of their consideration. Here, sir,
are five millions Of freemen in the free
States north Of the Ohio river; can
any body suppose that this population
can be severed by a line that divide!
them from the territory of iurcigr
and alien Government down some
where, the Lord knows where, upor
the lower banks of the Mississippi!-
Wha, would become of Missouri
Will she Join the reimbursement of the
slave Stale? Shall the man from the
Yellow Stone and The Mud Rives be
connected in the new Republic with
the man who lives on the Southern ex
tremity of Cape Florida? Sir, an
ashamed to pursue this line of remark
dislike it, have an utter DISCUS, fol
it. | would rather hear of natura
blasts of mildews, war, pestilence, and
famine, then hear gentlemen talk O
secession. To break up. to break vi
this great Government--to dismembe
this countty--to astonish Europe wit
an act folly such as Europe for tw
centuries has never beheld in any Gov
ernmen? No. sir no, sir! There will
be no secession. Gentlemen are no
serious when they talk of secession.
Sir, | hear there is TO be a Conyen
tion held at Nashville. | am bound t
believe that if worthy gentlemen NEE
at Nashville in Convention, their obiec
will be 10 adopt counsels conciliatory-
TO advise the South TO forbearance an
; moderation, and to advise the North t
forbearance and moderation--and I
inculcaie principles Of brotherly Low
and affection, and attachment 10 tn
constitution of the country as it no,
is. belief that if the Convention NEE
at all, it will be for this purpose; fo
: certainly if they meet for any purpos
= hostile 10 the Union, they have bee
singularly inappropriate in the seleC
. ton Of place. remember sir, thi
. when the treaty was concluded bt
. tween France and England at III
}, peace of Amiens stern old Englisi
/. man and an orator, who disliked th
Y terms of the peace as ignominious t
: England. said in the House of Con
{ mons, that if King William could kno,
C the terms of the treaty he would tur
y in his coffin. Let me commend tn
y saying, in all its emphasis and all i
f force, to any body who shall meet
e Nashville for the purpose of concerin
l.. | meaauraa for tho ovarthrow Of tho IT,