The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-06-08
DANIEL WEBSTER ON PEACEFUL
SECESSION.
fvsa TIE Dsveapsrs Gazette,

DANIEL WEBSTER ON PEACEFUL
SECESSION,
frusa The Daveapsrs Gaset.e
II 10 perhaps too late TO discuss the ones.
ton s.Peaceahle Secession" We think 80.
al all events. yet certain Northern papers
with Southern prociivities, perhaps Secss.
sionists at hear, hut Uaionists bv mouth,
s,ill cling TO the idea, or continue to thras,
i; ia the faces of their readers, that peace.
able secession can yet be permitted that
by some Presidential iaserposi,ioa this var
may yet be stopped, if We viii permit cer-
tain States to peacedbis srceds. The war
will asrer be stopped With that object. the
iooking-on world may be assured. There
is no such thing a. peaeeabls secession, and
it is time all men, whether North or South,
whether for the Union or traitors {, the
Union, should understand this Peace
would not bring aaon. peaceahie secession.
War can have no sach result. II We are a
Union, there is no such thing Is secession
from it peaoSabiy or Otherwise. The mo.
ment single State eecedes and the Gov
ernmcnt Acknowledges either iss right or its
power to secede, or the fact that it is no
longe. an integral portion Of the Republic.
that moment the Cpiun is dissolved. II is
because the Government will make no such
admission, but maintains that no State has
the right to secede, that this war is upon
Us. The Union must be prcssrued, and to
admit for moment any such fallacy as
peaceablc secession, is to admit thai We
have no Uniea TO preserve.
We should not probably have alluded TO
this matter, but one Of Webs,er's speeches,
having a direct bearing on this subject, has
come under cur observation, and we have
seized the opportunity to lay his opiuions
on Peaceable Secession before our readers.
These extracts may have been published in
newspapers, during the late controversy on
the subject, us they certainly ought to have
been, but We do not recollect seeing them.
In his 7th Of March speech in which he
plead for a Fugitive Slave Law to propitia,e
the Sou,h--the ''patriotic South"-Mr.
Webster said:
"Secession! Peaceable Secession! Sir,
your eyes and mine are never destined to
see that miracle. The dismem5erment Of
this vast country without convulsions |!
The breaking up of tho fountains of the
great deep without ru@,ng the surface |!
Who is so foolish, | beg every ybody's pardon,
as to expect to see any such thing! Sir, he
WIZ eees tHesr otattSy
Il common centre, and expects to see them
quit their places and 6y OF without conval-
SION, NAV look the next hcur to see the
heavenly bodies rush from their spheres and
jostle against each other in the realms Of
space without causing the crash of the uni
verse. There can be no such thing as peace
able secession. Peaceable secession is an
utter impossibility. Is the great Constitu.
ton under which We live, covering this
whole country, is it to be thawed and melted
away by secession, as the SHOWS OF the
mountain melt under the influence Of yernal
sun disappear almost unobserved, and run
off? No, sir /! No, sir! Twill not state
what might produce the d disruption of the
Union; but, sir, see as plainly as see the
sun in heaven, what that disruption itself
must produce; I see tha, it must produce
war, and such a war as will not describe
in its tvo fold character"
The italics are Mr.. Webster's own.
There can be no doubt that these last words
Tin lis tuofoid charaeisr'-mean, Mr..
Webster forsaw A CIVIL WAR ACCOMPANIED
Dy SLAVE RESURRECTION. Time will dis
close how true his foresight was. lie went
on to ask how o voluntary separation could
be adjusted: .a...... .......... 4
"Why sir, our ancestors--ou our fathers and
our grandfa,hers, those Of them that are
living among US with prolonged lives.
would rebuke and reproach US; and our
children and our grandchildren would cry
shame upon US, il We Of this generation
should dishonor these ensigns OF the power
Of the Government and the harmony Of the
Union. know, although the idea has not
been stated distinctly, there is to be, or II
is supposed possible there should be, a
Southern Confederacy. do not mean that
any one seriously contempates such state
Of things. ! am sorry sir, that it has been
thought Of, talked of, or dreamed Of, in
the widest Fights OF human imagination.
hold the idea OF separation OF
these States, those ,ha. are free, to form
one Government, and those that are slave
holding to form another, a. a moral impos.
sibility. . Here sir, are Eve mil
lions Of freemen in the free States north Of
the river Ohio can anybody suppose that
this population can be severed, by line
that divides them from the territory Of
foreign and alien Government, down some
where, the Lord knows where, upon the
lower banks OF the Mississir pi? What
would become Of Missouri? Will she Join
the arrondissemens Of the slave Stases?--
Shall the man from the Yellew Stone and
Platte be connected, in the new Republic.
with the man who lives on ths extremity OF
the Cape Of Florida? SIR, am ashamed to
pursue this line Of remark. dislike il,
have an utter disgust for it. would rather
hear OF natural blasts and mildewr, var,
pestilence and famine, than to hear gentle.
men talk of Secession.
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