Washington telegraph., 1864-06-08

CAN'T on sIoS.-Locking over
some dusty papers we have lighted upon
an address Of tac then Hon. 4. W. Gannt
to the people Of Arkansas before her Sc
cession. II was a. the time when Ar
kansas was hssitating, and majority Of
her citizens were in favor Of holding of
in the hope Of obtsining new guarantees
of their rights. CAN'T was frantically
urging secession. The thing then hung
fire, aud CAN'T was writing to Yancey
and others, /" for Gods sake keep up the
agitation, and not let this matter STOP"
Then CAN'T, whose mind is like an
apothecary's window-ja jar, which receives
anything poured into it and displays it
well, was thoroughly imbued with South
ern sentiments, and, in his eloquent way,
uttered many stirring truths which these
Southern patriots had taught him. Had
CAN'T had the irnness, courage and hon.
esty TO adhere to them himself, his con-
nexion with this movement in Arkansas
would have distinguished him at least !;
but greatness was never possible. He be-
gins as follows
"For more than two months / have been Ia
boring earnestly and faithfully 60 arouse our
citizens to q sense Of the dangers that threat
en- us, and to a necessity Of preparation to
meet them. / have taken extreme grounds,
for | have felt that the evils needed an ex-
treme remsdy-THE DISSOLUTION OF THE
UNlONr'
Thus be speaks Of the dangers Of de-
lay:
Should we fail TO 20 out and assist in the for
nation Of Southern Confederacy before Mr..
Lincoln is inaugurated, we becsme a part of a
Black Republican government By means Of
the Southern secession we become in a hopeless
minority. The Constitution will be amended
and ratified in fifty days, SO az to make II TREAS
OF TO sEcEDH Then when we feel oppression.
we will have to fight our way out Of the Union
alone. Arkansas against the whole North, For
We need not suppose that the Southern Confed-
eracy would sustain US in violating a provision
we stayed IN the Union and helped to make
We need not suppose they would embroil them
selves for people who would not come to their
rescue in their hour ofperil, aRd who had proved
themselves dead to all the noble impulses that
animate magnanimous and liberty loving peo-
pie They would justly leave us TO our fate.
We would not be regarded a. worth the sacrifice
they would have to make for our rescue and
We would be debased, despiseI ignoble
race Of serfs cringing beneath power that we
hated, and that returned contempt for our ha-
tired.
Again. Coercion i resor.ed to. We become
party 10 that coercion. We being with the
North, array ourselves against Louisiana. Ala
6Ama, Texas DC. We pay money into the trea-
sury to assist the government in COERCING
our own brothers and friends Your father
your brother, your cousin. THE companion of
Your boyhoei, your friend is 10 be pierced iiv
the bayonet and murdered by the bloedy missile
that you contributed funds to purchase. Your
sister, your mother j. to be dragged back a
CHASED captive into Black Republican govern
ment. to be degraded to the level of a negro.
and you are to help furnish the money TO do it..
But worse still. You are drafted byorder Of
Nr. Lincoln to enlist under bis banner 10 fght
The SOUTH, dRlyou are 5orai 10 1o.-to meet
in deadly conflict your friend and brother On the
battlefield How humiliating. how degrading
the thought. Yet il il not only p9ssiJle but pro-
bG5le, if we procrastinate. Oh, my countrymen.
let u fly from such degradation a. the worst
possible calamity that could befall us
Let rs arouse ourselves and assist il forming
Southern Coniederacy, whose social fabric
should rest upon negro slavery-whose white
men should be equal and homogeneous in their
pursuits and tastes and we will be clear of these
dangers; and apprspriating to ourselves, a.
United South. the fame, the glories and trad-
tions Of our ancestors rear aloft and dedicate
to their memories the model of the government
they fought 10 establish.
CAN'T asks, Can the South sustain her
self out of the Union and thus re-
spends: ....- -...-i. ..-, -
This question il proposed. not to serfs and
slaves, residing upon barren rocks and sterile
plains. hnt TO twelve millions Of freemen, brave,
frugal and industrious. inhabiting an expansive
country blest with every variety Of climate and
soil. and rich in mineral and agricultural re-
sources. A people having the ez1lHsire EzoHaPoly
cf cation gToring. upon which rePnse the fnau-
cial and political strength and security of both
England and the North. We could dictate terms
10 them-could bring them a slppliants FOR our
favor, and each Of these rivals could be made to
vie one with the other, in respecting cur rights
and regarding the inviolabilitT Of our cOmphcts.
We pay more 10 keep up the goyerunent.-
produce more from our soil, export more anil
contribute more TO the general wealth OF our
country than the North In a smaller govern
ment our burdens would be Iut talf-orr sccu-
rity and peace thousand fold more
The deluded fanatics or the North who, for 40
many years, in their blind folly and insane love
for the negro, have been tugging at the pillars
Of the temple Of the Union, have at last succeed
ed in pulling Il down. And they alone will he
buried in its mournful ruins, while the South
will be uninjured. Bound together in a common
brotherhood united in feeling and sentiment
tranquil and happy, with her white men free and
equal, with her slaves contented aud happy
with her rich lands teeming with her peculiar
staples cotton, rice. sugar aud tobaceo-with her
commerce unfettered by olerous taxes, and cz-
panded by her boundless exports the products
Of slave labor and with her people free from
oppressive tariffs. she would soon recover from
the shock Of dsunion. and her strides To power
and 10 opulence wonld challenge the world FOR
comparison.
We have room for but one more extract,
and it is still suitable for the times. "A
whitening answer to the secret disloyalists
who would instil into the minds Of the
ignorant poor man the idea that it was
his fight for the benefit Of the rich:
This class is more interested than any other
The man Of wealth can 90 70 other elimes-can
expatriate himself, or. if negro slavery i abol-
ished, can do as they have done in the North,
enslave rkite men who ought 70 be his equals.
Not SO with the poor man. a. it f. he Il the
equal of the most opulent. The path tc pre-
ferment and renown. TO wealth, power and dis
tinction is open to him and bis family. But free
the negro. Take him from under the social fab
ric. IL settles down upon and crushes the Door
white man TO the earth
According to Mr.. Lincoln. The nero u Iii
/ .,al In ftar hrr- ~.