Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-08-06
From the Missouri Denccrat.1
AIandering The Dead.

Extract fran a Speech deferred at Ft1-
HeHH Hail. Marcia 7th, 1850, by Dan.
ieE WsbStsr
d" If the internal fanatics and Aboli-
tionists ever get power in their hands
they viii override the Constitution, set
the Supreme Court at defiance, change
and make laws to suit themselves, lay
violent bands on those who differ With
them in their opinions, or dare question
their infallibility. and finally bankrupt
the country and deiuge It With blood.
The above card has been struck of
and IS being circulated By some misera-
able secesh traitors, who can think Of no
better way to uphold their putrid cause
! than to circulate a pretended extract
from speech Of the immortal Webster.
The whole thing is a .faLsehs OF There
IS no such sentence, no such sentiment,
nothing like IL, in Daniel Webster great
speech delivered on the It'll of March.
1850 The whole speech was an earnest
argument aud appeal against secession
and disunion, and though he alludes to
AbolItlonists il is in very respectful terms,
as honest, welLmeaning men, mistaken
only in the means by which they some
times sought to manifest an opposition
to slavery, which he shared, aud was
willing to manifest, as far as it could be
done consistently with constitutional OBJ
legations.
Daniel Webster never uttered a word
from which the unprincipled rebels and
rebel sympathizers now deluging our
country with blood can derive any sup
port or encouragement in their traitor
Gus course. Ii is a&aste Of time, and
Of money, perhaps-the money of other
people-foF them to forge denunciations
against Abolitionists as the authors of
this diabolical rebellion. Compared
with rebels and rebel sympathizers, the
Abolitionists are purity itself, aud it is
too late to seek to hide the deformity of
treason b. raising hue and CRY against
them. Alas, to what degradation have
secession sympathizers fallen, when they
deliberately perpetrate so base forgery
upon Daniel Webster, who, being dead,
ye. speaks. and every word and thought
Of his is burning, withering denuncia-
ton Of every sentiment and every utter
ance Of these traitors aud friends OF trail
tors who are so basely villifying bis
msmory
Let such traitors read that speech
hear what Webster says, and then if any
shame or common deceney remains to
them, let them cease to dishonor the
memory Of the great patriot and states
man by attempting TO torture any word
of his into justification Of their Infamous
treason. This is what Daniel Webster
said on tie 7th of March, 1850, of Sc
cession:
Secession, peaeeable secession Sir,
your eyes and nine are never destined
to see that miracle. The disnember-
ment of this great country without con-
ynlsionl The breaking up Of the foun-
tains Of the great deep without ruffliug
the surfaced Who is so foolish, beg
evsrybodys pardon, as TO expect 10 see
any such thing2 Sir, he who sees these
States now revolving in harmony around
a common centre, and expects to see
them quit their places and hy of With
out eonvnlsion, may look the next hour
to see the heavenly bodies rush from
their spheres ana lostle against each 9th
er 10 the realms OF space, without eaus-
ing the crash Of the universe. There
can be no such thing as peaceable seces-
sion Peaceable secession is an utter
impossbility.
| will not state what might produce q
disruption Of the Union; but, sir, see
as plainly as | see the sun in heaven
what that disruption must produce;
see that it must produce var, and such q
war as will not describe in its fro
fold character"
Such was Daniel Webster's opinion Of
secession, and yet those friends Of seces-
sion who are hoping to see it successful,
while they bypocritienlly pretend 10 be
egriends Of the Union" seek to conceal
their hideous treason by depouncing Alb
olitionists and falsely citing Wooster as
their authority USoS.