Lot 866
Hand-Written "Anti-Secession" Speech. Hand-written draft of a speech entitled: "Peaceable Secession!" 10 pages, 12¼ x 7¾ in., c. 1860. Fine. In part: "There are not a few, both in the North & the South, who deceive themselves,…with the idea that secession and peace are not incompatible. It is of infinite importance that this illusion should be dispelled. To act upon it would be calamitous to the North and fatal to the South. This terrible fact that Secession is War, sooner or later, must not be for an instant forgotten. Were it possible that we should agree on the terms of disunion -- could as brought to consent that the South should separate -- who believes that such a peace would last? Where now there is one cause of complaint between the sections, a hundred would spring up. Injuries and insults which are now borne and pocketed, for the sake of the Union, and because of the Union, would lead at once to retaliation and war. … If we did not shrink from it with horror, we should be less than human… To permit secession, as it is now threatened, would be simply to commit suicide… " The full content should be read in order to attain a full and complete appreciation of this speech.
Estimated Value $750 - 1,000.
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