The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-12-05
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NULLIFICAFfON AND SECESSION.

4%tsste55S&mmgbaaa9kS J views 81 Bs6fsi Webster
n psacsable, secession, given in his last great
speech delivered in March, 1850, to those
WHO hold thar The. secession of the Southern
Stats would not disrupt the government, and
thstjt can be accomplished PedccdJly. zfar<L'
bMraaPresidrnt, I should much prefer to
haSe heard frem every member on this floor,
declarations of 6pinion that this Union could
never be dissolved than the declaration of
opinion By sanyhedy,, that, in any case, under
the pressure OF any circumstances, such a dis
solution was possible. I hear with distress
and anguish the word "Seeession," especially
when it falls from the lips of those who arc
Patriotic, and known to the country, and known
aloHer the country, for their political servi-
ces. Secession /! 'Peaceable, secession Sir,
your eyes and mine are never destined to see
that miracle. The dismemberment of this
vast country without convulson The break
ingIup of the fountains of the Great Deep
kithOut arufRing the surface Who is so fool
ish, I beg e~verybody's pardon, as to expect
any such thing? Sir, he who sees these States,
nov revolving in harmony around a common
centre, and expects to see them quit their
places and fly Gof, without convulsion, may
look the next hour to see the heavenly bodies
rush from 7their, spheres and jostle against each
other in Che realms of space; without causing
the wreck of tho Universe. There can be no
such Kffing as peaceable secession. Peaceable
secession NisHanzFntter impossibility. Is the
great Constitution under (which we live-cov-
egiAg tue, whole country is tito be Ithawed
-apdInelted, away BY secession as. the snowston
the mountain melt under the influence of a
EerHal. suu9i disapper almost lunobseryed and
Fun oFa No. sirI Twill not state what might
Produce the disruption of the Unioh5 but, sir,
I see as plainly as 1 see. the sun in heaven
whassthats,disruption5 itself must produce |
see that twill produce war; and such a war as
]. viii not describe, in its two-fold character.
-Peaceable secession! Peaceable secession !
The concurrent agreement, of all the members
of ffik kfeaFfepublic TO separated, ANoluntary
SEPARATION, With 'Alimoh5 on the M }side and
Oh the other. Why, what what would be the
result p Where is the line to be drawn p
What States are to secede? What is to rel
main 5lkmericah? What ami to be?tIAn
American no longer? Am l to become a Sec
tienal mar, "a LEGAL man, a separatist, with no
eeantry in common with the gentlemen who
SIT around me here, or who fill the other house
Of Congress?. Heaven Forbid! Where is the
Gag of the Republic to remain Where is
ther eagle to tower25t On is he to cover, and
shrink, and fall tothe ground Why, sir, our
ancestors, our fathers and our grand fathers,
those of them that are yet living amongst us
with prolonged, lives, would rebuke and re-
proach.us; and our children, and grand chill
dTrenf would cry out shame againstius, if we Of
this. generation should dishonor. these;ensigns
OF the power Of the government, and the har
monyIef,thato Union which is every day felt
among us1witfr so much gratitude. .dtLaed 10