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Quotation from Speeches on the Compromise of 1850 by Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster
“There can be no such thing as a peaceable secession. Peaceable secession is an utter impossibility.”
Speeches on the Compromise of 1850, Webster's Seventh of March speech, on secession (The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster, ed. Whipple (1879), Project Gutenberg #12606)
Webster answers Southern talk of a peaceful separation with an image of the heavenly bodies leaving their spheres.
Citation: "There can be no such thing as a peaceable secession. Peaceable secession is an utter impossibility." — Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster, Speeches on the Compromise of 1850, Webster's Seventh of March speech, on secession (The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster, ed. Whipple (1879), Project Gutenberg #12606). (id compromise-of-1850-speeches-q8)
Portrait: Henry Clay, Matthew Harris Jouett, Public domain.
