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knowledge the right of the secession of States. He next alluded to Mr. Goggin as a member of the Whig Convention which adopted a platform for the preservation of the Union and the Constitution — and he believed the gentleman from Halifax (Mr. Flournoy) stood there also. They backed up Mr. Fillmore, as he did, in enforcing the laws in Boston; but now when they were to be enforced on this side of the line, it was a very different thing. His people were a law-abiding people; devoted to the ie had offered his resolution in the hope of preventing that calamity. The moment coercion is attempted, the Union will be broken up. He did not intend to discuss the question of coercion. It was ably discussed by the gentleman from Halifax, (Mr. Flournoy,) every word of whose speech he endorsed. His resolution proposed to call a conference of the border States, in order that Virginia might consult with them as to what ought to be done. If the gentleman from Harrison was a Union man he would