In the national convention Gouverneur Morris said that the fisheries and the Mississippi were the two great objects of the Union.[85] Negotiations with Spain with reference to the navigation of the Mississippi were constantly before the Congress of the Confederacy in 1787, this river being the only outlet for the products of Kentucky, Tennessee, and of parts of Western Virginia and Pennsylvania, as well as of the great then unsettled country beyond. There was a fear that the inhabitants of this western territory might ally themselves with Great Britain, because of her power to compel Spain to grant the right of way to the sea; for it was recognized that the inhabitants of that country would and must be a part of the power that held the mouth of the great river. More than this, the Constitution itself provides for the admission of new States, and the annexation of Canada had been contemplated in the articles of the Confederacy. [85] 5 Elliot, 526. Josiah Quincy’s speech, in 1811, when the admission of Louisiana as a State came up, is often quoted by Southern writers as justifying secession. He said: “If this bill passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of this Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation; and as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation,--amicably if they can, violently if they must.” This declaration does not contain any claimed right of a State as a party to a compact to judge whether it has been broken, or of a sovereign State to secede. It is an assertion that the government or nation was so changed by the annexation of Louisiana as a State, from territory formerly no part of the Union, that the other States had a right to break it up. This opinion was not concurred in by the Governor or Legislature or State of Massachusetts, which assented to the admission of Louisiana.[86] Quincy’s declaration contains no assertion of the sovereignty of a State, or right to secede at will. It admits that separation, unless assented to, must be by force. [86] H. Adams’ _History_, vol. v., p. 326. It is impossible to reconcile the doctrine of the Kentucky resolutions with those of Jefferson in his inaugural and with his whole policy during his term as President. They are fundamentally different. It must be remembered that his authorship of the Kentucky resolutions was not then known.