New York Times US
SECEDING FROM SECESSION.--Arkansas furnishes an additional illustration of the inevitable tendency of secession to work out its own destruction. Though not in form, yet in spirit this development is of precisely the same character as the remarkable movement in North Carolina, noticed yesterday. Gov. RECTOR, of Arkansas, has issued an address to the people of that State, in which, amid a great deal of coarse rhetoric, of the true Arkansas stamp, about subjugation by the "Hessians of the North," domination by the "detestable and execrable Lincoln Government," &c., the following significant passage occurs:
"It was for liberty she struck, and not for subordination to any created secondary power, North or South. Her best friends are her natural allies, nearest at home, who will pulsate when she bleeds, whose utmost hope is not beyond her existence. If the arteries of the Confederate heart do not permeate beyond the east bank of the Mississippi, let Southern Missourians, Arkansians, Texans, and the great West know it, and prepare for the future. Arkansas lost, abandoned, subjugated, is not Arkansas as she entered the Confederate Government. Nor will she remain Arkansas a Confederate State, desolated as a wilderness; her children, fleeing from the wrath to come, will build them a new ark and launch it on new waters, seeking a haven somewhere of equality, safety and rest."