Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-23

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merchants of heNorth to whom the gold is
consigned, would make as clean q sweep Of
1t as our privateers. Between the dangers
from Northern bankrupts and Southern pri-
vateers, II may be, that no more gold will be
sent from California In that event, a cargo
of ice, or.eod-fsh, or onions, or whale oil, is
all that our ptivateers need expect TO inter-
cept and capture. The Yankees have moth
ing to send abroad, and, of course, will have
nothing to purchase and bring home from
abroad. They should sell their vessels for
they will have no further use for them
PreyiDglon Northern commerce will be like
dining on skeleton--very poor pickings.
| Privateering will turn out to be not what it
is cracked up to be.
Daniel webster ON Secession Striking
and Prophetic land Appropriate DecIn.
ration. oi as-it 1r. no t-,ei - uI t1If0g %
| We make tho following extract from Mr..
webster's celebrated seventh Of March
speech. Having pointed out to the North
and South wherein they had been wrtig,,
and having urged the necessity of conces.
sion and harmony, he spoke thus on the
impossibility Of peaceable Secession: O. a.1'.'
\ Mr.. President, should much prefer to
4 have heard from every member on this floor
declarations Of opinions that this Union could
never be dissolved, than the declaration OF
opinion by anybody, that, in any case, under
the pressure of any circumstances, such O.
dissolution was possible. hear with dis
! tress and anguish the word Secession"
| especially when il falls from the lips of those
who are patriotic and known to the country
n and known all over the world, for their po-
I litical services. Secession Peaceable Sc.
cession Sir, your eyes and mine are never
destined to see that miracle. The dismem-
berment of this vast country without con-
e. vulsion. The breaking up Of the fountains
of the great deep without ruffling the
| surface. b. a. con Is.l Yt .lr.I .l..
i Who is SO foolish, l beg every body's par
/ don, as to expect to see any such thing2 Sir,
he who sees these States, now revolving in
harmony around q common center, and ex-
i plcts to see them quit their places and fly off
without convulsion, may look the next hour
to see the heavenly bodies rush from their
spheres, and jostle against each other in the
q realms of space, without causing the wreck
of the universe. Their can be no such thing
as peaceable Secession. Peaceable Secession
Z. is an utter impossibility. Is the, great Con-
stitution under which we live, covering this
/ whole country, is it to be thawed and melted
1 away by Secession, as the SHOWS on the
mountain melt under the influence of q ver-
nal sun, disappear almost unobserVed, and
run Off No, sir No, sir will not state
what might produce the disruption of the
4 sun in heaven, what that disruption itself
must produce; see that it must produce
war, and such o war as | will not describe,
in its two-fold character.
Peaceable Secession Peaceable Seces
j sion The concurrent agreement of all the
l members Of this great republic to separate
A voluntary separation with alimony on one
the result 2. Where is the line to be drawn 2
u What States are to secede2 What is to re.
main American? What am to be An
American no longer2 Am / to become a
Il sectional man, local man, D separatist, with
no country in common, with the gentlemen
who sit around me here, or who fill the
other house of Congress- Heaven forbid !
Where is the flag of the republic to remain 2
Where Is the eagle stin to tower VI is iIr TO
cover, and shrink, and fall to the ground :?
p Why, sir, our ancestors, our fathers and our
grand fathers, those of them that are yet
" living among us with prolonged lives,
would rebuke and reproach us; and our
children and our grand children would cry
out shame upon US, if we of this generation
should dishonor these ensigns of the power
: of the Government and the harmony of the
> Union which is every day felt among US
I with SO much joy and gratitude. 10
y What is to become of the army? What Is
to become of the navy2 What is to become
of the public lands2 How is each of the
thirty States to defend itself2 know, al
! though the idea has not been stated dis
tinctly, there Is to be, or it is supposed DOS
sibly that there will be, Southern Confed-
eracy. / do not mean, when allude to this
d statement, that any one seriously contem.
, plates such state of things. do not mean
J to say that it is true, but have heard it
) suggested elsewhere, that the idea has been
entertained, that after the dissolution of this
Union a Southern Cenfederacy might be
: formed. Lam sorry, Sir, that it has ever
been thought of talked of or dreamed of, in
the widest flights of human imagination.
But the idea SO far as it exists, must be of a
separation, assigning the slave States to one
side and the free States to the other. Sir !
may express myself too strongly, perhaps
! as well as in the physical world and hold
the idea Of separation of these States those
: that are fteet form one Government and
\ / those that are slave holding to form another
as such an impessibility. We could not sep
, arate the States by any such line, if we were
!; to draw it. We could not sit down here to-
| day and draw a line of separation that would
satisfy any five men in the country. There
are natural causes that would keep and tie
us together, and there are social and domes-
tic relations W hich we could not break if we
|, | would, and which we would 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 toradmit
, and compelled to admit, that ere long the
, strength Of America will be in the Valley o.
! the Mississippi. Vel, now, sir, | beg to
, inquire what the widest enthusiast has to
i say on the possibility of cutting that river
, In two, and lesying free States at the source
! and on its branches, and slave States down
. near jig mouth, each forming a, separsts
goysrhIhssRHti2 g s Hi Pray, siE lst me SAY 70 The
, worthy of their ponderings and Of theil
consid sidefation. Here, sir, are FIVE millions
, of freefnen in the free States north Of the
: river Ohio! Can any body suppose thai
this population can be severed, BY a line
! that divides them from the territory of 1
! foreign and alien government, down some
! where, the Lord Knows where, upon tht
lower banks Of the Mississippi2 rosR@ti u
4 & What would become Of the Missouri Viii
I she Join the sfrondissement Of the slavt
g States2 Shall the man from the yellow Ston,
f and the Plstte be connected, in the new re
: public, with the man who lives on the South
Q ern extremity Of the Cape Of Flofida2 Sir, [
a am ashamed to pursue this line Of remark
} Idislike it. ] have an utter disgust for it. {
! would rather hear of natural blasts and mil
Q dews, war, pestilence and famine, than b
I hear eentlemet talk Of Secession 'Fo. breal
up this great Govern Hent TO dismembe
i this glorious country 10 astonisho Edrop
. With "a act of folly such as Europe, for t~l
Q centuries has never heheld Ia any Govern
4 tnent or any peoplel No. siFl no sir Their
! win benz Seeessionl Gentlemen are not SO
. Iious " hen they talk OF Secession. 'hni i1io91q
E 'iuXh ----L isAls=-usii-I - z---a 9as0g I1a
} VIrsInIa stilI PeAFfaI OF the secessiOi
r''ly bs1bogfC0urSe There 0'lot'l 2.
: A Richmond Iva journal remarks: q q
The people of Virginia should teeollec
that they are grossly nisreprese nted BY thei