The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-12-04

the list Of the gallant dead is made known"
The tolloSing are extracts from the
speech of Gen. E w. CAN'T, delivered be-
fore the Union Club at Little Rock, Aakan.
sas. Nov. Z, 1868:
Negro slavery.
AS secessioniets, we Suppose We were out
Of the Union. We went out to protect
slavery. We failed We now come back.
For what pupose? To protect slavery? The
absurdity is too INDUSTRIOUS to tolerate for a
moment. We want out to protect the negro
We come back to protect the white man.
We regard the negro question as definitely
settled by the last source Of appeal, and
we say there let it rest
But we Of Arkansas must dispose Of what
is lett OF this question for ourselves. We
cant dodge it. In our stating ii we are not
agItating the slavery question. Can you
agitate the dead? Is not slavery dead in our /
Stste? Did it not go down in the vortex of
secession and civil warl But though dead
Its remains must be disposed Of. Its dead
carcass is ali that lies between US and per-
feet restoration Of our former relation with
the Government. A convention Of the PEG
pie should meet and bury it, The question
OF abolition and its converse can't be made
In our midst. We are not like Missouri
With US the question is, What shall we do
with that which is already abolished? To
this there can be but one answer. Amend
the Constitution and put it beyond the hope
of resurrection. We of the North and
South. knowing that slavery was the only
distur blng element in our Government, after
many Settlements each one deemed .f-
nal" resorted to that last arbtrament-. the
sword. We who own slaves have lost
fairly lost, and We must abide the decision
The people OF Arkansas are therefore the
proper ones to act on its final extinction
In our midst. The sooner We do it the
better for US and the country. To many
this truth is unpala!able, but we can't blink
It, II must be met, let us do so like men,
There is large and growing party in
the North that is disposed to reduce the
seeded States to the condition Of Terrific
ries. The central idea of this party is to
get rid Of slavery, as the source of all our
calamities. 1t would be unbeooming in Us.
rs well as waste of time, to get up and
argue the abstract question with them as to
their right TO do this. Let US anticipate
them. and cut under them at once, by
meeting In convention, at the earliest day
that we can be empowered SO to do, and
extirpate forever the last vestage of slavery
in our midst, and bury out Of sight this
source of all our eslamisies, personal, State
and National. By this formally giving up
what is already lost, we will have secured
to US, all our rights as equal States in the
Union. If we do not do so. give it as nv
opinion that, right or wrong, we will be re-
duced 10 the condition of a Territory. and
% remain until we do pass upon this question
definitely, at once and forever You can't
find soldier in the army who has no, al
ready reached. or who is not closely an
proxins'iog the conclusion, that hishealth
happiness and life have been exposed and
jeopardized because of negro slavery, and
who does not feel. and Y no viii not insist
that, after sll his toll and hardships. this
question, which diplomacy and ssateman-
ship could not setde. being settled by the
sword. should be put at rest forever. And
this is independent of any opinion he NAV
have held before We tender him the issue OF
. settlement b. the sword am no poll. |
tician. Would not receive an Office from
President or people. and can therefore speak |
plainly. And do say 10 csndor and sin. |
cerity, TO these Arkansas politicians who |
think they are striking the popular curren,
by their efforts to re-instate slavery here. |
thst they will be borne down by the tide |
As irresistible aud powerful, as i. will ba
overwhelming and annibilaiiSs of all their
hopes and aspirations. TR1 people of
Arkansas are determined to go back to the
Union. as they now end themselves, and
'hey are not TO be frightened from their pur-
pose by having the words ..eonsistencvr ~
''Abohtionist' thrown at them. Fins;n,
slavery destroyed they can SO pass il, snd be
neither inconsistent nor ~AbolItionists y