The Daily Green Mountain Freeman

Rebel Discontent.

We noticed recently the action of Gov. Clark of North Carolina, in asserting the independent sovereignty of that State, and emphatically snubbing Jeff Davis and his bogus Government. This conduct of North Carolina is hardly less significant than a recent message of Gov. Rector of Arkansas, in which the following passage occurs:

It was for liberty she (Arkansas) 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 Mississippians, 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.

These signs of the times show which way the current is setting, and make it evident that, as our armies advance and win new victories, the Confederacy will go to pieces of its own inherent weakness. The rebel States are already quarreling bitterly among themselves, indulging freely in criminations and recriminations, and nothing but some great success—which it is now utterly impossible for them to expect—can restore them to any harmony or coherence. When thieves and robbers, in their desperation, get to quarreling among themselves, justice is pretty sure to overtake them speedily; and the traitor thieves and robbers at the South cannot expect to be an exception to the general rule.