Show A voice from arkansas on monday jan gen gantt of arkansas spoke briefly at mozart half dilall di cincinnati n cinnoti cin nati 1 A portion of his speech wo we give below deeming it too significant to be passed by in writing my letter to the people of at arkansas kansa sJ 1 I gave great kofl enco to the of tile the ie bellion and it could not have been otherwise I 1 struggled 11 haid not to write that letter follain forI aln a southern man but I 1 saw tile the oo bellion was only a struggle to axt andl and pei nugio slavery I 1 saw my people whom I 1 love so well groaning gio aning beneath the despotism of jeff davis Davi sand and llis his minions and I 1 could not bo silent I 1 dashed to fictile from the htiu struggle igle and seek some coiner where I 1 could live in peace unobserved but with these facts beffie me how hav could I 1 but speak then when I 1 spoke through that letter there was laisco against me by the of the IN north a cry that I 1 did it with a view aiji to office but I 1 told them as I 1 now tell yau that I 1 would not accept any office or emolument which it is in tile power of the people or their president dent to give I 1 wanted only to see peace ic le stored to my people I 1 would that god would blast all demagogues and place true men in office in in the first days of this government when the ship of state started out on its voyage our fathers had ever before them a barnin warning that it might bo be on the alie lock of slavery it has been to tile the people of the south tile root of all their evils this slavery a subject of continual commotion in 1860 when the people so agitated on the subject I 1 did all in my power to allay the excitement I 1 called upon pon them to bear in mind that the constitution gave them sufficient guarantees for the safety of slavery but they wanted now new and additional t 1 giai an toes mr lincoln had truthfully said in illinois that slave slavery and freedom could not exist together and Z that it must be al all I 1 s avcin or all the other tiling thing and the people of the south fearing that it was going to bo be all tile alie other thing cried out for more gual alite cs of the s safety of the institution an frfd rfd d when the blow was we found that the confederacy was based on negro slavery established solely for the perpetuation of that institution ution we had never divided the government of our fathers and we foundton found to our grief that in our anxiety for 1 or the safety of slavery we had found d a government on no pi principle icicle of pat patriotism patriots in me merely rely as a matter of dol lars and cents we c thought you wanted to drive slavery in to a cotner coiner where it would sting itself to death and we ave wanted to protect it we thought we ave would have a government 0 all to 0 ourselves this institution would not be with and we ili hoped still faither to strengthen 0 it in the course of time by grasping the island adjacent to our states by annexing mexico 11 exico and by forward even and swallowing some of the anacondas of south america laughter this tin s was all before lin coans proclamation but what was the result delaware would not come with us maryland hesitated and then clung to the old flag kentucky did not respond she hesitated in gloom and amid fields of blood and then emerging bioni aiom the cloud shone brightly as ever in the collection of stars missouri too long iong a scene of bloody conflict has aas returned to the union she toppled amid tile wreck avrech and disorder but again sparkles in the nations coronet of stai s this looked bad to us slavery seemed worse hemmed in in than ever before and we foal ed wo we should be foi ced to abandon it and the struggle 0 we waited long and patiently lor for our recognition by foreign powers but instead of that came Lincol ns proclamation of emancipation ci prolonged 0 applause I 1 dont think tile vast importance of that measure was fully understood stood either cither by the people or the president Pies ident himself when it was issued we of alie south cei did not fully or nearly appi appia cc ciata M to it but first carne his notice and at this we laughed what said wo ave lias has lincoln or his to do with us that solids sends us liis his notices let him on and seq what good it will do him stile sine clio enough u I 1 i tile the famous emancipation proclamation was avas issued but still wo we laughed C what does docs his proclamation amount to said we ave our gov ratify it it aal afflect act our constitution but armies had been raised and under the old flag the legions of the north and west bole boie down upon us and they brought thom the proclamation cheers I 1 we called them thein Lincol ns boides but with their appearance appo arance the manacles maracles man acles fell from our slaves and they were nee lice we in the int interior elior saw this ic 10 sult suit along the and we pitied our friends who thus feeling tile the effects of tile the proclamation but we ave soon felt the same trouble and we laughed no more on that subject and here lot let me express my belief that god almighty intended this war to bo be the deathblow to slavery from the first we can trace circumstances and signals which point unmistakably to this fact every circumstance in this rebellion shows a struggle in the nature of bilings 0 to free tile 00 nation from the bli blight lit of this curse and wo we will throw it off and be a more homogeneous and united people than before tile the people of tile south did not understand this aliis at first but they aie beginning to learn it and to see tile the philosophy of events many of us its see it now and desire the evil uprooted foi ever I 1 believe this aliis war avar neatly neaily ended I 1 believe that if certain men in the north will stop talking about peace and conservatism and use every effal t in support of the war that the lobel lebel lion would be so pushed as to collapse by springtime spring time tinie you would think if you visited us in alkansas kansas Ai that the seat scat of abolitionism had been transferred fi aiom om now new E england i to aikan sas our people have h ave a right god knows to be sick of slavery and they are sick of it oh I 1 so sick they can point to desolated homes devastated fields forsaken fi resides and smoking villages as a monument of slavery they turn from it with loathing indescribable but while we who are arc so much interested pray for delav ciance from this curse is a sneaking party in the north who would force us to keep this curse with us we would return to our allegiance with slavery blotted from our oui state constitution what a si sight lit is here presented I 1 tell tel 1 you my friends that if you desire to prolong this war you have only to continue this talk oi of conservatism ethcie is nothing eliat has snoie assisted jeff davis than this conservative serva tive peace p party arty of the north the work of that party lie he said was the first ray of light lie had bad perceived and rejoiced at during t this whole struggle let me appeal to you then to drop this talk of conservatism and support the war avar measures which are in force you people of ohio have done a glorious work in this war your soldiers ors have blakely ie presented this state on many a battlefield battle field gl glorious olious to the arms of the union but never did ohio strike such a blow at the rebellion as when her voice gave a hundred bundred thousand majority in ill favor of the principles represented by lion hon john brough loud and prolonged cheers that was one of the most terrible blows blow s the rebellion over ever received c it was the greatest victory of the age its moral force is above all computation and your own city of cincinnati in its cicat sanitary fair has achieved another victory which will have a great influence in the cause of freedom but if I 1 return again 0 to the subject of tile the people of arkansas you ailt must st not consider me tiresome for it is one of great importance to me and my people As ai example of the intense desire of our people to return to the union and have slavery abolished I 1 will relate one incident A regiment 0 of eight hundred liun died alk Aikin busas tusas sas s soldiers 1 ers wilo alio have served in mr prices ai abny in y returned home I 1 was ivas ic quested to address them and add I 1 did so these men lien one fourth of the state for many of them privates though they were were prominent citizens professional men judges of the courts legislators etc before the war var at the close odny address I 1 took a vote on tile the question of ledurn in ing 0 to allo allegiance 0 bance to the old government avith slavery abolished and how low man many y votes think you were given in in favor just eight hundred there was not a man of them who was ivas not in favor of ic turning to his allegiance 0 and having the curse of shively removed from off liis his state some people of the north have said that I 1 do not represent the people of my state but they will soon see that I 1 do they will see sec that I 1 represent a people terribly in earnest in this matter and people who in four months time will avill bo be back under the old flag 0 with avith the curse slavery removed from their shoulders and when we ave are back we want people aiom the north to come to us we will remove the obstruction of slavery and invite you people of ohio to come with us and exchange a portion of your greenbacks green backs for a portion of our land there are fair haired bright eyed dati daughters b liters of ohio with us who ablio came to to us years ago and who during this terrible war have waited anxiously for the appearance appeal ance of the old fl flag ag they will wait as anxiously for your appearance and so will avill we all we need more people in arkansas people to till the broad lands which await their coming people to assist us its in in brin bringing g i tic that state to a prosperity within withie i the next five s such as she lias has never enjoyed before all of which wo we intend to do and shall do |