Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-07-28
CIR UL AR. To the People of the State of Arkansas.

rected by the citizens of Little Rock and of Pulaski county, to prepare and publish circu- lar, calling your attention to serious evil that af1lcts the State, expressing their opinions upon It, and inviting your cooperation to effect its removal.
 The evil is the existence among us of class of free colored persons.
 These persons are not, and by the solemn decision of the supreme court of the United States, cannot be citizens of the United States. They are not citizens of the State They do not vote, and their testimony is not receivable against white man.
 Their feelings and their sympathies are wholly with those of their own color, who are held to labor and service among us for life. As to us. they are foreign body of persons encamp- ed among us, gallei by the consciousness of an inferior position, with no love for us, and little or TO community of interests with us They ltstInctlvely take the side of those under our government, condoe with them when they complain, harbor them if they escape, tell them they are entitled to be free, and encourage them n insubordnaon, and to pifer and defraud, if not to commit offences more serious, and do acts more dangerous still
 Even if they do nothing actively their very existence here, and their condition as free men, make them constant, though silent preachers to the slave of notions that are dangerous in the last degree to Us, and injurious to him.
 The justification of the institution of slavery rests upon the inferiority of the negro race, i.s un!itness to be free, its incapacitv to take care of and govern itself. l.; is insane in us to teach the slave by our acts, by allowing the free man of his own color and race, no more than his peer in intellect or capacity, to be free, to deal traIq a Traa t,, h,,ll ] sue Tn court, that he is fit to be free and can take care of and govern himself; while in words we preach different doctrine.
 He would be deemed insane, who should fling fire bralds into a vessels hold or into a magazine of powder and stand by, confident that no fire or explosion would follow. And yet we, through mistaken kindness and elem ency, see with peri ct unconcern these preach- CTS to our slaves of di<content and sedjtiop every where settled among Us, eloquent even when silent, and dangerous even if we'll dis. posed.
 Tine submission and loyalty of the slave must come from his conviction that his condi- ton ot servitude to higher race is his natural condition; that such is the law, and that the law Is right. If you set constantly before his eyes the living contradiction of the doctrine of his unhtnesS to be free, what Can you expect but dissatisfaction, murmuring and sedition
 II, therefore. our free colored population toe'e lit to be free; if they behaved with pro- prIetv, and refralned from installing into toe mnds ot the slaves, notions injurious to our and their own welfare, 1t would still be a suicidal pbhcy to permit them to remain among uS
 But the truth ls, as we all well know. that with few exceptions, they are lazy, worth less, immoral, lmpudent and unprincipled pop ulaton, intentionally eXertins the worst irfu- ences on the slaves, encouraging them in all their evil habits aud incnations, hating Us who deny them equal privileges with ourselves; ever ready to receive stolen wares and t. harbor the fugitive; and wholly unfit to be free
 The attention of the south has been of late much drawn to this important subject. If h. diana, northern and non slaveholdlug State finds the free negro and mulatto so worthless aud depraved animal as by constitutional provision absolutely to forbid his presence within her limits; if Canada is becoming dis gusted with heir immortality filth and laziness there Is surely much more reason why their presence should be undesirable in a slavehold- ing State.
 | the pestient doctrines of the abolitonsts are whispered into the ears of our slaves, the toad that sqnais there will be foundsto be d free negro or mulatto. Through them it was that the serviie population of part of the South entertained vague hopes of advantage, and even freedom from the anticipated triumph of the Republican party and Fremont at the last election.
 We have hitherto tolerated the presence of these sewers of sediton and preachers of dis content among us, out of kindness of heart, and strong dsinclination on the part of majority of our people to adopt harsh measures, tha, would in many cases operate hardly and with apparent injustice.
 But selfdefence is the first law of human nature. This government of ours was made for the development and progress of the white race. It was made by white men, and for white men; an the safety and permanent interests of the white people thereof are the supreme law To compel the removal of these dangerous neighbors, is after al no greater hardship than thousands on thousands of our fellows volun- tarily incur every day in seekin, rew homes.
 Besides riddng itself of their dangerous pre- sence and demoralizing influences, another ad- vantage would accrue to the South from their removal. The people of the northern States aud especially of New England, are devout believers in the doctrine that the negro is fit to be free and entitled to and competent to exer-
 
 man. Their moral sensibiities have been greatly shocked by the decision in the Dred Scott case, that a negro or mulatto cannot be made citizen of the United States If the south compels universal exodus of its free negroes and mulattoes northward, the philan- thropists of New England and the North. west may see cause to modify their views in these respects. Send them half million free ne- groes and mulattoes to swarm in their towns and cities; give them neg;o pauperism in addi. ton to their present glut of pauperism in gene- ral; and let the laziness and bestaty of a degraded and depraved race Qor they would soon become so ntere) reek in all their stree,s and lnfeSt their neighborhoods; and their negro. phily would cease to be epidemic or virulent.
 It will be their impudent intermeddling, under the pretence of lofter moral sense on their part, with matter that concerns us alone that will, to a great degree, have brought about this necessary measure of selfdefence on the part of the South. Let them reap the fruit of their folly. They love the negro. claim him as brother. their very bowels are profoundly moved for him, because he is denied the rights of ctizenship.
 If the South is wise, she will give them an ample dose of the article of which they are so fond. If it produce nausea and reaction. so much the better for the country and anankind. Send them all our free people of color, and you lay the devil of abolitionism for many long year.
 Mississippi has already acted, and excluded 1 this incendiary population from her limits alto cether. The whole south is waking to the l importance and even memorable necessity of the measure. It was attempted here in Arkan- sas two years ago. but defeated upon the notion | that. being citizens of the United States, the | free negroes and mulattoes had constitutional right to remain here The judgment of the snnrcrna interpreer of the constitution has set