Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-12-11

1t is cheering TO read the accounts given
by the correspondents at Little Rock of the
loyalty and the antt-slavery feeling Of 4
large number of tho inhabitants of Arkan-
sas. There are said to be eight or ten
thousand of the citizens of that State now
in the federal service spd recruits are COM
ing in daily. A correspondent of the st.
Louis Democrat, writing on the 2lst ult.,
says, "to-day two entire companies came
in for the Sd cavalry aud some 800 for the
Sd Infantry" The stuff of which these men
are made is shown by the following state
ment of the writer:
"To avoid the rebel couscription one Of
without other food than raw green corn /
Another lay in cave Of Magazine Noun
tains during the three days Of snow, last
winter, without food or fire, afraid to make
tracks in the snow. And this, too, In sight
of his own house, where his wife and babe
and hearthstOne were.
al asked one how he escaped the negro
dogs2 we poisoned and shot SO many
that those who had good ones dared not
let them out after u.s."
Perry county, which had only about six
hundred voters, and which has been ram
sacked by Hindman's band for couscrIpts
for the rebel army, has just sent down a
company of ntnety.fo Union men, good
and true, to take their place In our army.
And other counties are initiating the ex-
ample of Perry. Eight loyal regiments
have lately been formed or are now form-
ing in the State. The staunch old Union
feeling has survived all the trials to which
1t has been subjected.
But the masses of loyal men are said to
be opposed to the re. establishment Of sla.
very. The correspondents report that
their opposition to 1t is stronger than that
of the patriotic citizens of Tennessee,
Missouri or Maryland. This is indeed sur-
prisiug. We had supposed that Arkansas
was as strongly welded to slavery as
Georgia or Alabama. But the weight Of
testimony on the point is SO great that We
cannot disregard 1T. Gen. CAN'T, who has
renounced his rebelliOus course aud come
out for the government, lately made
speech at Little Rock, in which he thus
spoke Of slavery as dead in the State:
"As secesstonists, we supposed We were
out of the Union. We went out to protect
slavery, We failed. We now come baslE.
For what purpose2 To protect slavery
The absurdity Is too monstrous to tolerate
for a moment. We went out to protect the
negro. We come back TO protectt the white
man. WerPgard the negro question Rs de-
fnitely settled by the last source ofapPeal,
and we say there let 1t rest.
But we OF Arkansas must dispose Of what
is left of this question for ourselves. We
cant dodge it. In our settling It we are
not agitatiug the slavery question. Can
you agitate the dead2 Is not slavery dead
10 our State? Did 1t not go dowu in the
vortex of secession and civil war; But
though dead, it's remains must be disposed
OF. Its dead carcase is all that lies between
US and perfect restoration of our former
relations with the government. A Convsn.
tion of the people should meet and bury II.
The question Of abolition and it's converse
can't be made in our midst. We are not
like Missouri. With us the question is,
what shall we o with that which is already
abolished2 To this there can be but one
answer, amend the constitution and put 1t
beyond the hope of resurrection.
The people Of Arkansas are determined
to go back to the Union, as they now find
themselves, and they are not to be frighten-
ed from their purpose by having the word
lconsiaiAnrvi nP lahnlttinniaf thFnWn at