Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-11-16
raDiel Webstsr ON eeeession.

| AS the constitu tional views of Mr.. " Ncbstel
cannot fail to command the attention of his
countrymer.' so long as we have Conslitu-
tion to defend and a Union to preserve, w
cite from his celebrated speech dev, red in the
Senate of United States on the 9TH of March
1888. the subjoined we.ghty reflections ant
| patriotic admoTitfoils
Mr. President should much prefer tc
have heard, from every member on this floor
declarations of opinion that the Union could
never be dissolved, than the deelar@tion o
opinion by anybody, that, in any case, under
the pressure of any circumstances, such "a dis
solution was possible. | bear with distress
and anguish the word secession especially
when it falls from the lips of those who are
patri ,tic, and kno~n to the country and
known all over the world for their political
services. Secession Ptaceable secession !
Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to
see that miracle. The dismemberment of this
vast country without convulsion! The break
| ing up of the fountains 6f the great deel
without ruffiiLg the surface Who is so fool
ish-I beg everybodys pardon-as to expect
to see any such thing? Sir he who sees
these States, now revolving in harmony rou nd
a common center, and expects to see them
quit their places and fly off without convul-
son may look the next hour to see the heav-
enly bodies rush from their spheres and jostle
against each otter il the realms of space,
without causing the wreck of the universe
Thepe can be no such thing as peaccable Sc
cession Feaceable secession is an utter i'm
possibility. Is the great Constitution under
which we live-covering tltis whole Country
is it to be thawed and melted away by seces-
sion as the SHOWS on the mountain melt under
the influence of vernal sun, disappear almost
unobserved.. and run off? No, sir! No, sir
| will not state what might produce the dis
rupton of the Union but, sir see as plain
ly as / see the sdn in heaven what that disrup-
tion itself must produce | see that it must
eYoAsre war, and such Way as / will not de-
SCRIBE in its twofni& efiaIacteE
Pesceable secession! Pcaceable secession
The concurrent agreement Of all the members
of this great republic to separate! A volun-
tarr separation, with alimony on the one side
and on the other! Why, what would be the
result? Where is the line to be drawn?-
What States arc to secet9e? What is to re-
main in American? What ans to be? An
American no longer? Am l to become a
sectional man, a local man, u separatist, with
no country in common with the gentlemen
who sit around me here, or who fill the ether
House of Congress? Heaven forbid! Where
is the flag of the republic to remain? Where
is the eagle st i'll TO tower? Or is he to cow
er and shrink and fall to the gfouuti'f Why,
sir. our ancestors, our fathers, and our grand
a. IL, tlnt
amongst us with prolonged lives, would ebuke
and reproach us : and our children and our
grandchildren would cry out shame upon us,
if we of this generation should dishouor these
ensigns of the power of the Government ahd
the harmony of that Union which is every day
6st among US with so much joy and gratitude,