Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-07-24

, oA 'o wa southeFher, Och, now away wit } ylr honsinse about the tederals using the bayo WHAT GEN. CAss SAYs.-Somahodv aske, Oen Cass, the other day, in Detroit
 "General, what may we do to save tho I-,;on2 ,,
 Anything"
 '' May we abolish slavery!r
 Abolish anything on the face of the eartl to save the nation"
 We notice the following mysterious para. graph in late Mobile paper:
 Coop NEws-We are in confidential ,o.,ou sion of bit of news, that is (as far as # gnosl as good as the thrashing out of McClellan [, VIII not De long, we hope, before we will be at lperty to chronicle another glorious and crush- Ing victory over the invaders.
 We notice paragraphs of the same mysterious import n the Missssippian and the Memphis Appeal. We doubt not they refer to move mentS being made to surround and cantura Dueh ana hls army on their march upon Chat tanooga. Gen. Kirby Smith in his front bas been reinforced by Gen. Churchill's Arkansas brigade and Gen. Cables brigade of Texans while brAgg with his whole army is fonowipg n the rear We do not see how Buell. can es- cape. He will soon be hemmed up in pocket
 "e emp the following from Mobile paper;
 LARRY ME A LITTLE FARTHER. tbe oattie ot Shiloh, early in the action. I saw young warrior by tree aiming deliberately to- curiosity, i fr6daY r6deY dYlth Sharps rife, and from was shooting at The reply was, '-ssrtn<h-. I to some of them" asked him why hess lid not ad~ vance, and he said my leg IS broken, but if you will carry me little farther, will kill more of them, for l have yet six cartridges" This brave fellow. whose leg afterwards amputa- ted, was young Cherokee, formerly from Tah eQuah, Cherokee Nation. D. c.
 The union slave owners in the border States begin to fear the loss of their property, and cen sequently begin to vince. The following is very feeling letter from the traitor Amos Ken dall
 WASHINGTON, May 18th, 1862. | T1 he Editors oftbe Nat. Intetligencer: My attention has been called to Washing ton letter, in the Philadelphia Press, in which the writer, after quoting passage from one of my letters published in your paper, says: Thus it will be seen that even the veteran democrat Amos Kendall. while obiecting to the | course of the abolitionists, is entitled to the credit of having made the proposition which I Gen. Hunter has thus practically carried out | Now, 1 should consider myself traitor to my | country if 1 were to approve the late order oi | General Hunter, purportlng to set free all the | slaves within his military district. While eX- posing to Southern rebels the gulf which is I +l, l,o on. tered ny brain that any military commander or the President himself could constitutionaly, or by general or proclamation confscate their pro- perty and emancipate their slaves, or that such an object could be effected otherwise than by conviction for treason by due course of law in the courts of justice In the order of General Hunter, see the essence of military despobsm, utterly suDver8ive of the constitution we are fighting to maintain; and 1t Is deplorable that the President does not, by the enforcement ot a general line of policy, repress these assumptions of power by his subordinates.
 Every such assumption unrebuked by him ex poses him and Congress itself to the charge O hypocrisy and peridy in their announcements of the purposes for which the war is waged; i discourages the loyal men in all the slavehod ing States, and ln an equal degree encourages the leading rebels; 1t will cost the North thou 1 sands Of lNtS ana millions or money II alafin COnstl faliFc tllSH GNtI rphere, and makes II ~ begin to think their own liberties in danger; l strengthens dlsl0yal men iu ioya 1tutes, anu et'
 ables them to emharrass the government i'll it
 legitimate operations. h iiue, there is but on
 sa.e course for the government 10 pursue, an
 that is to disregard all party affiliations, and ad
 here firmly to the programme originally an
 uounced. VIZ; The prosecution of the war fo
 the sole object of preserving the Constituuo and the Union, with the rights of the States in tact, to De followed by peace as soon as the ot jects dan attained If there b. not firmnes
 enough in the administration to do this, we ar
 Oh a sta of revoluton with scarcely hope {
 ever again reaching the haven of unity an ! peace. AMOS KENDALL. TIE FIRST WAIL.-The defeat of Mcclellan grand army comes home to the boasting an . i bptlvinr Yankees The weeping and wailin