Arkansas intelligencer., 1849-11-24
ABOLITION, COLONIZATION, &c.

W hIlst Northern MethodlStS are SWarmlDg from
the Abolition hive, and Free Soil politicians have
gone so energeticaly to work in the Of
Negro-dom, in slave-hodng Missouri and Arkan-
sas, it behooves the friends of our peculiar in
stitutions'' go TO work in earnest, to discomft
them and their allies, wherever and whenever 1t
lies in power. Let make war upon every
Free Soil politician, every Northern Methodist
Preacher, and every free negro who may be in the
State against its laws.
1t is no political movement, no religious intole-
rance, persecution of CASTE thus to wage war
against the whole s. kith and kim" And it will
show great want of sagacity not to commence
that war at once. Before some influential polit-
clan la Benton rises traitorlike, to uphold the
enemies of our institutions, and i've tone to his
numerous minions. Before the Northern Preach
ers get foothod in our midst, and in establishing
congregations, lay nest eggs, from which will be
hatched full fedged a5oIitionsts. Before free
negroes become so numerous and respectable"
as they are in the southern city of Norfolk, that
the eradication Of The evil is found be impossible,
and the free white chivalry of Arkansas like that
in Old Dominion is compelled to submit to cir
cumstances.
Let US take particular pride in expeIling free
negroes from State. Send them TO their
friends and allies in the Northern States, where
the people maintain the sacred dogma, that all
men have equal, natural, and inalienable rghts"-
where the negro is as good as white man-where
all friends and equals.
Whilst the abolition zealots Of Canada pledge
themselves to "abolish the accursed system Of
slavery" in the United States, they at the same
time protest against the colonization of free ne.
groes in their midst and maintain that the free
negroes should be made TO stay in the slave States.
They assert that free negro population is a
to any community, and in the same breath swear
to the extent oftheir ability, to set free the negroes
of the South.
What an nsolent, unneghborly violation of
comfy is here exhibited They declare that free
negro population is and an evil and yet
they pledge themselves to inflict that curse upon
US. We publish the following resolutions passed
at a meeting in Canada on the 18th August last,
to show up the hvPocrtical cant of these whining
zcaIots who entertain such horror at being as
sociated with the free African, while they are
shedding tears the slave of the same race:
CANADIANs:-The hour has arrived when we
should arouse from our lethargy F.; when we should
gather ourselves together in our might and resist
the onward progress of an evil which threatens to
entail upon future generations a thousand curses
Thousands and of thousands of American
neg roes, with the aid of the abolition societies in
the States, and with the countenance given them
by our own philanhropc institutions. will con-
tinue 10 pour into Canada, if resistance is not now
offered Many Of you living al distance from this
frontier have no conception either Of the number
or the character of these emigrants. or of their
poisonous effect upon the moral and social habits
of community
Feilolo Christians Let us forever maintain
the sacred dogma that all men have equal, natural
and inaenable rights. Let US do every thing in
our power, consistent with international politv
and justice, TO abolish the accursed system of
slavery in the neighborng Republic. But let us
not, through mistaken zeal to abate the evil OF
another land, entail upon ourselves a misery
which every enlightened lover of his country mus,
mourn. Let the slaves of the United States be
free. but let 1t be in their own country; let us not
countenance their farther int reduction among US :;
in word, let the people Of the United States bear
the burthen of their own sins.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
3. Resolred, That in the opinion Of this meeting
it would be unconstitutional, impotic and unjust
in the Government, to sell large portions of the
public domain in settled parts Of this province to
foreigners, the more so, when such persons belong
to different branch of the human family, and
are black.
4. ReSolred. That petitions be Immediately pre-
pared and signed, TO be presented the next ses-
sion of the provincial Parliament, urging the ne
cessIty of legislation on the subject of negro i'm
migration, paupersm and colonization.
We think it would be the interest and policy of
the Southern States TO enforce the laws rgidlv
against the residence of free negroes among us,
and where sufficient laws do not exist, to enac,
such at once. We ought to compel them to live
among their friends and advocates in the free
States IL ought to be policy to make the
people of the free States sick of free negroes--we
ought to drive upon them full, flowing, and ever
running tide of free negroes; and perhaps when
they become well dosed with them they will then
work TO abate the evil, and in so doing they will
have TO put straight-jacket upon aboitionsm.
AS an offset to the abolition societies in the
North, suppose we organize societies to raise the
means to coonize the free negroes in slave States
not to Africa--no! but into Canada. 1t is esti
mated that there 200 900 free negroes in the
slave States. We may safely calculate upon each
one OF those worthless scamps rendering worthless