Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-11-10
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TUESDAY. NOVEsf BER 10, 1908.
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witness,


witness.
Hon Z w. CAN'T, formerly member OF
,ho reboI congress, subsequently brigadi"r
general in the rebel army, ana still more re-
GENTLY promoted to be prisoner of war with
IN the federal lines, has formerly recanted-
acknowledging the folly of secession, and
counseling submission. In an elaborate adj
dress, Just issued to the people Of Arkansas
he reviews the accumulated curse which the
revolt has brought upon the southwestern
states. and in sane and uDanswerable argu-
ment shows how hard bargain they made
when they joined lots with the adventures
ut Richmond. He is sure that the mill
itary rule of the confederacy has been
as contemplate and disastrous as it
could well be; but the civil rule is no better.
With defeat and humiliation in every field
there is naked bankruptcy and ruin in every
town and city under the anarchy of misrule
and disorder, called for dignity the Cenfede-
rate government. The pertinent and sensible
question, What shall be done2 he answers
with the sagacity of man who does not mean
10 be overwhelmed in the approaching ruin Of
the secession experiment END the struggle,
and submit! We are whpped-fairly beaten
The last man is in the field, Half our terri
tory is overrun. Our cities are gone to wreck
--peopled only by the aged, the lame and
halt, women and children, while desert
ed towns, and smoking ruins, and
wasted plantations, and disappointment,
and anarchy, and ruin, lower all over the
land" Somebody suggests to him ''foreign
intervention" But all foreign governments
have abandoned their cause to the contempt
of the world. 'Dissensions at the north'-
but there are no dissensions as to the right OF
rebelion-only as TO methods OF fighting It,
"Negro savery"-that institution did have a
divine mission, but it is accomplished. Now,
says Mr. CAN'T it must move on and give
place to the ideas and systems of better and
nobler order of things. To effect the results
which he is advocating he urges that immedi-
ate measures be taken for resuming the old
relations of the state with the federal govern
ment, and that Hon. w. X. Sebastian, who
never gave sanction or encouragement to the
rebellion, be instructed to return at once to
his place in the United States senate. Thus
laying down their arms, and quitting thi;
hopeless struggle, he is sure the day cannot be
far distant ''when his state will rise from the
ashes of her dt ISOLATION, to start on path o.
higher destiny, than with negro slavery, sh'
ever could have reached; while the reunited
government, freed from this cankering sore
will be more vigorous and powerful, and NOR
thrifty, opulent, and happy, than though tn
o." HHa5fzntoMa had never desolated her field
The Walls Crumbling-LOUHs.
Shelter
The pilgrimage of jeff. Davis through h
forlorn doniinions could hardly have contrib
uted to the elasticity or cheerfulness of h
spirits. From Richmond to the MISSISSIPPI
and from the Mississippi round to Wilmin
ton, where he made his last wild promise
independence and prosperity for their wret
Of confederacy, he was confronted with ii
tress and foreshadowings of revolution
every step We can concede great deal
the eXaggerations of over-sanguine reporte
about the wants of the southern people, al
yet have evidence enough from their ow
lips that the vital forces of the rebeic
are in the last stages of exhaustion
and may at any moment reach the article
death. In anticipation of an early collaps
the secessionists of Louisiana have offere
their bid Tor reuni0n-not in the form of d
rect and specific offer, but as a kind of tie
of public opinion. These precious propose
are published in the New Orleans True Del
of the 18th ult., as part of a plan of negot
atoms already submitted to the federal GOV
eminent and to the hopeless and decaying al
thories at Richmond They contemplat
suspension of arms for four months, susper
sion Of negro enlistments and REMINDING
their masters all slaves not already enrolled
the consolidation of the United States an
confederate debts taxes on land and cotto
to pay the interest, constitutional amendment
relative to the election of president and men
bers of congress, compensation to maste
for slaves who are freed, the perpetual excl
sion of the slavery question from the nation
congress, and other things quite as absu
duu hC eIBHluCdilSS VI tuGeS plOp
sitions consists. not in any intrinsic impo
lance of their own. but in that they disclo
how far the conscious apprehension of faiu
has extended, and terrified the timid rebe
into discussion of their future policy.
A GALLANT ExAMPLE.-The famous Exec
sior brigade, composed of New York reg
ments, and now commanded by Col. VIM. ]
Brewster, have offered to re-enlist for thrt
years or the war, on condition of being allo,
ed to reOrganize mounted infantry, and
return to New York for sixty days for the pu
pose of recruiting. The officers are then will
ing to guarantee a brigade of five thousar
men. This brigade has been in all the gre
battles of the army of the Potomac except Al
tetam, and has been reduced by CASUAL
and battle to little more than fifteen hundrC
effective men.
TWENTY FIFTH REGIMENT.-We have r.
ceived from Lieut.. Carter, acting adjutan
the following report of the 25th Massachl
sets regiment for the month of October =