Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-22
NartI- Rsst. Alk- Sent. 6 1Si3


 DEAR DEMoCRAT-Though not much oi, newspaper contributor, yet your generous kni. ness on former occasions inspires us with coli dence to again drop you line.
 The health of our p rtion of the State is yer good, perhaps too good for the short crops raised here this season, for if our appetites remangcd we will have eaten up every thing raised bson another year ushers in its products. Our oaa were almost an entire failure, the long dJ weather has cut our corn crop short at leastols half. So we will have to resort to the cane o1 the Arkansas river, to winter our stock Wheat crops were very light to the acre, yet the gan was very fine.
 It will be seen by reference to the last Demo crat, that James P. Owen, of Huntsyle-A. H. Rutherford, of Little Rock, and s. M. Scot, editor Arkansaw Traveller are candidates fa the first clerkship ln the lower House ofaa next Legislature. It is not my purpose to VII an electioneering letter for friend Scott, but ! would just say, in justice to him, that he vas faithful and efficient clerk to the last Legsla- ture, and as believe was universally esteemed as a gentleman by the members, and t S thought that he will get the vote of every reelected member of the ensuing Legislature
 We are proud in this portion of the State to see the decided action taken by the people oi Little Rock. in expressing their wish aud IS believe. ought to be the wish of every southern man, upon the subject of legislating so at the next session as to cause the removal of ever free negro from the State within given tine
 How long VII the southern people sufs themselves insuited and trodden under fooIg the abolitionists of the north and the free ne groes of the south? How long, suffer the ir'' negroes to remain here to incite our slaves ia irsuboriinatiou? How long tolerate the s'ns- 5amation of the whites and the free nesoes which Is too often occurring among the lowe order of the whites aud negroes? Is there's man elected to the Legislature who has any conscientious scruples Gas some pretended have had last session) about the constitutiouaE  ty of removing them? hope not. see ? the election returns that Clark county let oa' both of her old representatives, and l surmS' on the ground of their disobeying printed T. structons last session to vote for the bill forihs removal of the free negroes from the Siats- The senators from Madison, Benton and Wash- ingtou, will perhaps not be quite so sympathsas and tender footed on that subject as the 0A ones were.
 Ship them--yes ship them, and let them lpa an ylum in the north, where the aboliuoass are standing with open heart and oustIe'ens' arms to receive them to their bosoms. ToeOr cision in the Dred Scott case by the Sapien' Court of the United States, and also the de1 sions of Attorney General Cushing and seer tary Cass, have settled the point and put II " yond cavil, that free negroes are not c'tlssHsO O' the United States
 That being the case, why tolerate them annOD' us, worse than worthless set of vagabonds
 fouwiii pardon my tresspassing so long uPO1i i your time, and perhaps you will not be troaO'' by me often. Yours as ever
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