But to-day we have been told by the honorable gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Lowrie) that he would prefer disunion rather than that slaves should be carried west of the Mississippi.
As was well said the other day by my friend and colleague [Mr. Mangum], in presenting some resolutions to the Senate, disunion is a question which we cannot discuss here as one for Senatorial action.
Neither can it be pretended that there was an indirect policy in introducing this discussion as an apple of discord, which might give cause to disunion among the allies.
It would be madness to suppose that among the three great agricultural classes, there can be any disunion of interest.
I believe it was Mr. Lincoln who asked him to visit Illinois, where, especially in the southern part of the State, there was considerable disunion sentiment.
It was also claimed that the only realdisunion element was the Breckenridge Democracy.
They were indignant at the New England position on the Texas question, and talked much of disunion if such a policy of obstruction was persisted in.
In any case the valuable asset of Protestant Ascendancy, with its possibilities of perpetual friction and disunion among Irishmen, was still in their hands.
With such miserable disunion at home, Germany would have gone to pieces and ceased to exist, but for the powerful participation of England and Holland in the war.
Disunion is a violent disruption of great material interests that now are wedded together.
Probably Union anddisunion sentiments met in the mind of many a volunteer Jones.
The disunion sentiments ascribed to distinguished citizens of the State were, he hoped, if indeed they were accurately reported, "the effect of momentary excitement, not deliberate design.
They believed that the South, to assert the fancied "rights" of their monstrous wrong, would accept disunion and even more, that in this cause it would fiercely accept all the terrors of a civil war and its limitless devastation.
He was the arch "apostate," leading fiends of disunion who would rather rule in hell than serve in heaven.
Such was the Republican party, such their leader in St. Louis, when the black day of disunion came.
It has frequently been insisted on that the mere geographical obstacles to disunion are such as to render the cause of slavery hopeless in the long run.
Thus was removed from the halls of Congress the most sagacious and formidable enemy that the disunion propagandists ever encountered.
To prevent the disunion so frequent between the two nations, Morgan had a clause inserted in the charter-party, empowering him to condemn to instant death any adventurer who killed or wounded another.
The grudges of the last voyage had been perpetuated, and had grown into a deep and lasting feud, producing ultimately a disunion fatal to all increase of the power of the brotherhood of the coast.
It had been the intention to have also repealed the test act; but the disunion then prevailing among the whigs had caused so formidable an opposition even to the former measures, that it was found necessary to abandon that project.
Garrison was also confident, as he said at a Disunion convention in 1857, that if the South were to secede, she would not "be able to hold a single slave one hour after the deed is done.
The idea of disunion was then scarcely a low whisper.
It is a great mistake to suppose that disunion can be effected by a single blow.
The public mind and the public heart are becoming familiarized with that most dangerous and fatal of all events--the disunion of the States.
From the first, it had been the policy of the disunion leaders to represent the question of secession as lying wholly with the South.
It is not a mere sentimental enthusiasm which leads us to combat disunion and to cherish the greatness and oneness of our country.
Pragmatism, pending the final empirical ascertainment of just what the balance of union and disunion among things may be, must obviously range herself upon the pluralistic side.
These were met by constitutional objections and considerations of expediency and convenience, and by threats of disunion and civil war.
The authors and abettors of the great crime were confirmed in their delusion that threats of disunion and rebellion could be relied on to carry any desired point.
Is it possible that with Union or disunion before us we can hesitate as to taking on this incumbrance?
The British government were not averse to disunion from the outset, and seized every pretext of tariff, or of inaction respecting the rebellion, that it might quibble with the United States authority.
That circular very briefly recited the leading facts of the disunion movement, and instructed the ministers to employ all means to prevent a recognition of the confederate States.
If we had been one, the first movement toward disunion would have hurled the traitors urging it to the dust.
May I hope that I have measurably succeeded in demonstrating that the allegations with which the propagandists of disunion have been assailing the public mind are without foundation in fact.
In his eyes, the apprehensions of disunion were a "humbug;" the threat of it mere bluster, and the fear of it silly timidity.
All who cherish disunion sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this.
The disunion upon which he counted vanished at the first threat of war.
Disunion of Germany=] Mention was made in the last chapter of the longdisunion of Italy, its division into a number of separate and frequently hostile states from the fall of the Roman Empire until its final unification in 1870.
