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The following is an extract from the com munieation of writer in the last Times, signed Arkansas, against State Government:

 asserted that tic Missouri Question could never recur in the councils of the confederacy- although, on the admis- sion of that State into the Union, stren- uous effort had been made to prohibit the existence of ''involuntary servtude" with ln it's limits; yet, that this effort had failed Tn It's object, and resulted in what was caH- ed "compromise." This appellation was allowed to an act which certainly bore nothing of the character of compromise, though digni6ed with the name for the patriot and democratic portion of both Houses united in the cause as one of con- mon interests, without regard to sectional feelings and opinions, and succeeded to the utmost extent of their wishes.

 Gordon gives it in these words =

 "La aH thet territory ceded by France ' to the United Statcs, msder Hue name of '' Louisiana, achich lies north of thirty-si1 "degrees thirty minutes north lafitude, mol ''incltded ioithm tue iinaits of tue State of Missouri. slape1y and inuoimtary serui- dude, otkerwise than in punishment of "caqnes, aOhereof tbe parties shaH haue been "duly conpicted, shaA De, and IS hereby, :" FOREVER PRoHIBITED.'

 Here is q distinct, formal and unequivo- cal recognition of the right, to hold slaves, m Missouri, and all that portion of what was formerly Louisiana, lying South of 26 l-2 degrees of North latitude. This, it will be recollected, forms the northern boundary line of the Territory of Arkan- sas. Our rights are here not only admit ted but guaranteed and secured to us by the most sacred and solemn pledge or com pact, which must and will remain inviolate, until we, voluntarily, withdraw from it and yield up our rights.

 Now, in the name of common sense, hoao are our rights admitted, guaranteed and se- cured to us,' in the above quotation from Gordon! Slavery is positively prohibited north of . certain line--does that guarantee