Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-11-13
THEsUBMIssIoNoF APRoMINENrREBEL

Address Of Hon. T. w. Can't, qfMe Rebel Con-
gress-Ag Eloquent APpeat to Return to Tie
Union.
L. W. CAN'T, elected to the National Congress
in 1860; subs bsequently OF the Rebel Congress-
and still later n Rebel General, has issued an ad-
dress to the people of Arkansas, dated Little
Rock, October 7, 1868. The fore part Of it is
devoted 10 the local politics of Arkansas. lie
then goes on to prove the utter hopelessncss of
the Rebel cause, and shows that they can ex-
ptct nothing else but TO have to surrender to the
Federal arms nj last, and concludes as follows;
hesitated long, my fellow citizens, before
determined to issue tins address | dislike to he
abused and slandered. But, more than ALL dis
like to live under cloud with the friends who
have not yet reached my stand point, aud, be-
sides, all possess is in the Confederate lines
Their leaders will deprive my family of slaves
home, pfoperty--debts due me-in n word, re-
duce ihcm from competence and ease to penury.
Aside from what have inside the Confederate
lines, ! could not pay for the paper this address
is written upon. But il may all go. Did | de-.
sire future promotion, aud could bring my con
science to it, would do like the Johnsons safe
from bullets and harlships themselves :ley as
sist in holding you on u this hopeless and ruin.
Gus struggle, nnd at the end OF the conflict will
come back and sny:--"I staid withSou TO the
last9' " Honor me and minen God deliver me
irom such traitors TO humanity, and to the inter
csts Of our blerding people. 10 me, the path OF
duty is plain Il is TO l. nd my feeble aid 10 stop
this useless eltusion of blood. Agd though il
beggar my family and leave me no lay of hope
for the future, sball follow it.
have witnessed the desontion Of the South
cru States from one end to the Other. This hope.
less struggle but widens it. Ench day makes
new grayes, new orrhnns, and new mourners.--
Each hour filings into this dreadful whirlpool more
Of wrecked hopes broken fortunes and anguish
ed hearts. The rich have mostly iaeu. The
poor have drunk deep OF the cup of SORROW while
surely, mud not slowly. the tide Of rum, in its re-
sisiless surge, sweeps towards the middle classes,
few more cOmpnigus mud they VIII form part of
the general wreck. Each grave and each tear,
each wasted fortune and broken heart puts us
that much further oil from the object of the
struggle and that much further off from peace
and happiness.
Viewing il thus, the terrible question was pre-
sented to me, to whether should continue
my lot in mn enterprise so fruitles md 70 full of
woe, aud help hold the masses Of the people on
to this terrible despotism of Davis, where only
ruin awaits them or whether should be quiet
observer of it ALL or lastly whether should as.
sist in saving the remnant of you from the wreck.
| have chosen the latter. / shall send this ad-
dress to every hill aud corner Of the State, to
the citizen and soldier at home or in prison. and
/ chAli aShu wan IL my llhgNta ~ fAlnllHuiJ huu
to arrest them in their pathway OF blood and
ruin. Why trust Davis any longer? Had he
| twice our present resources he would still iail--
With success he would be despot. But the
whole thing is tumblng to pieces, Soldiers are
leaving dsgusted and disheartened, aud whole
States have gone back to their homes in the ma
tiona galaxy. Maryland and Delaware will nev
er again be shaken. Kentucky has intrcnchcd
| herself in the Union behind wall of bayonets
/ in hp hands Of her nvvu sturdy goua Migsnuri
is as firmly set in the national galaxy rs Massa-
chusetts. Tennessee, tCmpest-tossed and bolt
riyen, under the guidance Of her great pilot,
steers for her old mooring, and will be safely an
chored before the leaves fall while the rays of
light from the old North State, flashing out ftful-
ly from her darkness across the troubled waves,
show that she strs is not lost, but is struggling
to rejoin her sisters.
None of these States will ever join the South
again. Then, with crippled armies, with deyas-
tated fields, with desoate cities, with dsheart-
ened soldiers, and worse than ALL wi III weak and
corrupt leaders, what hope ia left to the few re-
naming States, but especially to poor, oppressed
aud down-trodden Arkansas None Better get
our brothers home while they are left US. Open
the way for the retnrn of husbands. fathers and
sous, and bind up the broken links of the old
Union. The people must act to do this. l tell
you now, in grief and pain, that the leaders don't
care for your blood. Your suiferings move them
not. The tears and walls of your angushed and
bereaved ones fall on hearts of flint. While
they can make dollar or wear an epaulet they
are content. Finally, with griefsticken and
sorrowful heart, limplore mothers, sisters wives
and daughters to assist, by all their arts, in
ing their loved ones from this terrible scourge,
ere ruin overakes you and them irrelrievably.-
While God gives me strength, daunted by no pc
ril and swerVed by no consideration Of self,
shall give you my feeble aid
To break the force Of these utterances honest
ly, patriotnally and sorrowfully made, the
Johnsons add certain reptiles who crawl around
t Little Rock under Federal protection, together
! with all other like men, who, from ther own
| innate corruption are not able to appreciate
pure motives in others, will tell you that desire
10 90 to Congress has influenced my conduct
Do they suppose that l would lose the last dol
! lar have and subject myself to their sander
and abuse for the chance of running for an office
: when peace is made? Does not my refusing
e upon principle TO take my seat in Congress in
Q 1860 after triumphant election, in which
carried twenty-five out of twenty. eight counties
i show them what little value l set upon such a
bauble But will stop their mouths by the
t solemn assurance that there are not people
enough on the continent to induce me to go tC
Q Cyngress, / an sick, tired and disguised witt