Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-08
.Clinnings and Comments.


 ists begin to howl for blood and negro freedom, they turn him to Curtis proclamation and prove they are setting negroes free. When southern tories begin to quake for their negro property and 1t Is thought necessary 10 honeyfuggle them 9 little longer they point to the action of this fellow Phelps, and ask them if they do not see thatnegroes are restored to their owners? This backing andflling, stealing and restoring, fools nobody, not even the negro. The fact is, when they get the power, they will neither set the ne groes free or restore them to their owners, but will put them on farms or plantations with Tan kee overseers, and then God have mercy upon the poor black peon, who will soon be worked to death.
 In November 1860, the New York Tribune published the article we give below. Leta man read this and then reflect what the Tribune and it's party are saving and doing now. If they believed what they said then they are now en- acting a terrible lie. If it was done to deceive then the object was to bring on war and blood she'd Said the Tribune, in November l860
 "1he telegraph informs us that most of the cot ton States are meditatng withdrawal from the Union because of Lncoln's election. Very we'll: they have alright to mediate, and meditation is a profitable employment of leisure. We have a chronic, inYincibe disae1ei in disunion as a rene dy for either northern or southern grievances; we cannot perceive any necessary relation between the alleged disease and this ultra heroic remedy; still, we say, if anybody sees ht to mediate dIsunion, let them do so unmoesed. That base and bvDooritiraI fTOusp at SOutborn dictaton, about the ears of John Quincy Adams, because he presented petition for the dissolution of the Union. The petitioner had right to make the request it the members duty to present 1t.
 And n0w if the cotton States consider the value of the Union debateable, we maintain their perfect right to discuss it. Nay, hold with Jefferson to the inalienabe right of communities to alter or abolish forms of government that have become op- pressve or injurious; and fl the cotton States shall become satisfied that they do better cut of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be revolution ary one, but 1t exists nevertheless; and we do not see how one party can have a right to do what another party has right to prevent We must ever resist the asserted right of any State to re- main in the Union and nuliify or defy the laws thereof; to withdraw from the Union is quite an other matter And whenever . considerable sec tOn of our Union shall deliberately resolve to go out, we shall resist ali cO-ercve measures designed to keep it in. V hope never to live in a republic whereof one section 5 pinned to the residue by bayonets.''
 The army correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial Is spirited writer and @ tremen. dous liar. His letters are extensively copied in the northern papers, and lis marvellous stories greedily swallowed. One noticeable feature in a late letter is a labored attempt to make our forces at the battle of Cornth at least 90,000, and the federal force at lu,0O0. The relative proportions were truly, on tho first day, as 27,- GOO Confderatcs to 10000 federals, and the lat ter were reinforced with 20000 more on the next day. Before every battle, they brag of two or three to one, and show that victory is certain. After battle they swear taat we outnumbered them. The following bsas rom the New York | Herald contains great lea ot truth and should teach us to De at worl, straiuing every nerve to meet the vast force arayed against US. Says the Herald:
 'The United States have tN0 to oncin the field. ! They have more endurance Ttan southern men. owing 10 the climate in uhich they were born and ] the activity of their lives. They are superior in mechanical skill, so valuable ia war; They have more money anl superior resources of greater abundance of the material of war, and Uhey have arms without stint, whereas the rebels arc only half armed. But the crOwuing poiut is, that the supe- riortv in quality ofthcr weaponsrenders every man that yields them equal to two -oniederates. The physical force of the north in the field s thus, on the lowest calculation, as four o one, to say mo- thing of the formidable navy on the coast and on the naygable rivers, and the moral force Of the cause of the Union against rebelion How is it possible, under these circumstances, that the arms of the federal goyernment should not be triumph ant, and all the southern States restored in a very brief time to the national fold hence they strayed one of the most extraordinary political hullucina- tions to be found in the annals of organized com munitie7.
 A million of men are arraycd in arms-s0ders of the Union G5000o, Coniederatcs 50,00O.- 1 Since the French revolution. and the struggle to make it good against the combined powers of Eu- rope no other nation has sent so many men to bat tie. It is no wonder that the people of Europe should take 90 deep interest n the contest; for the result will not only affect the condition of the present generation of every country, from the Pil- l lars of Hercules to the North Pole, and from the i British Islands to the Ural mountains but genera tions yet unbom.'