Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-11-09

l. To ignore and spurn the autb ,r;tv ot all the corrupt and tyrannical nol;t;cai ;n. stitutlons which the shareholders have es- abolished for the security of ther crimes
 z' soon as may be, to take the political power oi your State, into your own hands anu estaoiish governments that shall punish 'lla'cnolalhg as crime, and also give to .ne saves civil actions for damages for tbe wrongs that have already been committed against them.
 ,: Until such new governments shall be instituted, to recognize the slaves as free ,i ,,ieh' ana as being the rightful owners of 'ne property which is now held bv tbe;r masters, but which would pass to them if !uStice were done; to justify and assist them III every effort to acquire their liberty and ootaih possession of such property, by stra- tagem or force; to hire them as labora,s pay them their wages, and defend them meanwhile against their tyrants; to sell them hre-alms, and teach them the u, of them; to trade with them, buying the pro- perty they may have taken from tbeir on p!essors, and paying them for it: to cnconr- age and assist them to take possession of the lands they cultivate and the crors they produce, and appropriate them to their own uSe' ana Tn every way possible to recognize them as being now the rightful owners of the property, which justice, if admins tered, would give them, in compensation tor the injuries they have received.
 4. To form vigilance committees. or leagues of freedom, in every neighborhood or township, whose duty it shall be to stand in the stead of the government, and do that justice for the slaves which govern ment refuses tosdo; and especially to ar rest try and chastise (with their own whlps) all shareholders who shall beat their slaves, or restrain them of their liberty: and compel them to give deeds of enamel patton, and conveyances of their property to their slaves.
 Q. To treat, and teach the negroes to treat, all active abettors of the shareholders, as you and they treat the shareholders them selves, both in person and property.
 Perhaps some say that this taking of property by the slave would be stealing. and should not be encouraged. The ans wer IS, that 1t would not be stealing: it would be simply taking justice into their own hands and redressing their own wrongs. The state of slavery is q state of war. In thls case It IS just war on the part of the negroes-a war for liberty, and the recom- pense of injuries, and necessity iusti6es them in carrying it on by the only means then oppressors have left to them. In war, the plunder of enemies is as legitimate as the killing of them, and stratagem is as legitimate as open force. The right of the slaves, therefore, in this war to take prop erty IS as clear as their right to take life, and their right to do it secretly is as clear as their right to do it openly; and as this will probably be their most effective mode of operation for the present, they ought to be taught, encouraged and assisted to do it to the utmost, so long as they are unable to meet their enemies in the open field. And to call this taking of property stealing, IS as false and unjust as it would be to call the taking of life in a just war murder.
 It Is only those who have a false and superstltlous reverence for the authority of governments, and have contracted the habit of thinking that the most tyrannical and lnlquitous laws have the power to make that right which is naturally wrong, or that wrong which is naturally right, who will have any doubt as to the right of the slaves (and those who would assist them to make war, to all possible extent, upon the prop erty Of the shareholders and their abettors
 We are unwilling to take the responsi- bllity of advising any general insurrection, or any taking of life, until we of the north go down to take part in 1t, in such numbers as to insure q certain and easy victory We therefore advise that, for the present. operations be confined to the seizure of property, and the chastisemen of individual shareholders and their accomplces; and that these things be done only so far as they can be done without too great danger to the actors.
 We specially advice the fogging of in dividual shareholders This is case where the medical principal, that like cures, will certainl y succeed. Give the shareholders, then, tast of their own whips. Spare their lives but not their backs. The arro- gance they have acquired by the use of the lash upon others, will be soon taken out ot them when the same scourge shall be ap- piled to themselves. A band of ten or twenty determined negroes, we'll aroused, having their rendezvous in the forests, coming out upon the plantations by day or night, seizing individual shareholders, slipping them, and logging them soundly, in the presence of their own slaves, would soon abolish slavery over large district.
 These bands could also do good work by kidnapping individual shareholders, taking them into the forest, and holding them as hostages for the good behavior of the whites remaining on the plantations; compelling them to execute deeds of eman- clpatlon, and conveyances of their property to their slaves. These contracts could probably never afterward be successfully dIsavowed on the ground of duress, (espec- tally after new governments favorable to llLerty should be established, inasmuch that such contracts would be nothing more than justice; and men may rightfulIy be coerced to do justice. Such contracts would be intrinsically as valid as the treaties by which conquered nations make satisfaction for the injustice which caused the war.
 The more bold and reSoute slaves should be encouraged to form themselves into bands build forts in the forests, and there collect arms, stores, horses, everything that will enable them to sustain themselves. and carry on their warfare upon the slavehold- CTS
 Another important measure on the part of the slaves will be to disarm their masters, so far as that is practicable, by seizing and concealing their weapons whenever oppor- tunity offers. They should also kill all slave hunting dogs, and. the owners too, if that should prove necessary.
 Whenever the slaves on plantation are not powerful or courageous enough to resist, they should be encouraged to desert, in body, temporarily, especially at harvest time, so as to cause the crops to perisl for want of hands to gather them
 Many other ways will suggest themselves 10 you, and the slaves, by which the slave holders can be annoyed and injured, with. out causing any general outbreak or she'd ding of blood.