Des Arc citizen., 1859-02-11
Dissolution of the Union Speech of a
 Georgia Senator.

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 In the Senate, on the 9th ult., the Pa cifc Railroad bill under discussion, MT. Iverson, of Georgia, participated. h. cidentally, he touched upon the subject of the Union, the probabilities of a disso- lution. the necessities existing and likely to arise. for 1t, and kindred topics. We present portion of his speech, to which we invite the attention of Southern peo- pie:
 And, speaking of the Union, sir, Itake occasion to say that there is another rea- son connected with It, which makes me object to any bill, the provisions of which will secure the Government aid in the construction of railroad to the Pacific, exclusively confined to the Northern States. Sir, believe that the time will come when the slave States will be com pelied, in vindication of their rights in- terests and honor, to separate from the free States, and erect an independent con federacy and 1 am not sure, sir, that the time is not near at thand when that event will occur. At all events 1 am satisfied that one of two things is inevitable ei- ther that the slave States must surrender their peculiar institutions or separate from the North. I do not inelaborate or pro- intend. on this occasion, to enter into an longed discussion of this proposition. content myself with expressing my firm belief, and brief allusion to the founda- ton of that opinion I,is unnecessary 10 look back to the commencement of the anti-sIavery agitation in the Northern States. and to trace its regular and rapid growth 10 its present monslrous propor. tions.
 remember twenty-five years ago when petitions were first presented 10 Congress for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia j. it was the beginning of the agitation, and was limited to few de- luded religious fanatics among the men and some of the weaker sex, of the New England States. It nevertheless aroused the fears and excited the angry feelings of many of the Southern people; 1t pro- duced much discussion in Congress, and among he newspape- press of the South ern States. Many expressed their be. llef that it was the beginning of a storm
 which was to sweep over the free States carrying everything before it; but they
 were met with the syren song which tht distinguished Senator from South Caro lima has recently so eloquently poured
 forth.
 "There is no danger; slavery is to'
 strong 10 be overturned; let the sound
 couservatiye mind and heart of the Noril
 be appealed to, and all will be right; ou I friends there will protect us" Behol,
 the result in the late ele tions. With tn bold, undisguised declaration of hostilit
 to slavery at the South, as enunciated b l,he great leader of its enemies al Roches l ter, with hisloud sounding pronunciament of down with the accursed things" wit
 the bloody flag of anti-slavery unfurled land :. war to the knife written on il folds, and there is not at this day a ma iority of true, conservative friends of tn rights of the South in single free Stat of this Union this side of the Rock Mountains. The demon of abolition, his most hideous shape, has covered thel all over with the footprints of his onwar :. and remorseless march to power.
 Sir, he knows but little of the working ! of human nature, who supposes that II ; spirit of anti-slavery fanaticism whic
 now pervades the Northern heart W : stop short of its favorte and final end ar ' aim-the universal emancipation of siav
 " in the United States by the operatic
 and action of the Federal Governmer
 When Mir. Wilberforce began the az
 tation of his scheme of emancipation
 lthe British West India Islands, there " 3. not corpora's guard in both Houses ' the British Parliament who sympathlz