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A card has been issued by the citizens of Crawford county, over the signatures of more than one hundred respectable lreeholders, in viting their fellow-citizens of Crawford coun- ty to meet in the town of Van Buren, on the 18th instant, for the purpose of taking into consideration the exposed and defenceless situation of our frontier, upon which subject the Intelligencer thus warmly speaks:

 We look forward with pleasure to this meeting, where the independent freemen liv ing in the country, upon the spot-who see, and know, and feel the necessity of the de- fence of the frontier, will assemble i'll their majesty, to discuss this all absorbing and im- portant subject; when they will patiently and respectfully state to the General Government, the true position of affairs on our border; and when they will manfully and courteous ly demand at the hands of the Government, that protection to which they are entitled, from the circumstances under which 1t has placed them.

 We learn that the citizens of other counties are moving upon this subject; and full ex- pression of our border population will be had, and forwarded to our delegation du- ring the early part of the session of Con gress.

 We place implicit confidence in the gene rosity, magnanimity, and justice of our fel- low-citizens of this great Republic, which is so well able to protect it's frontier settlers and especially the citizens of the States of Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. They have labored, and suc- ceeded in getting rid of the Indians in their several territories, at an immense cost of blood and treasure, who have been located and concentrated, by the Government, upon our immediate border They, we are as sured, will aid us in procuring protection hard to get rid of.

 Some of our friends in the East, who re- tire night after night, secure from the appre- tensions of midnight attack, and the startling war-Whoop, savage yell, and nocturnal con- hagrations, may not dream-cannot, proba- bly,, imagine the danger, the slumberng vol cano upon which we repose. They do not entertain due sympathy for us, and conse- quently treat our petitions with undeserved indifference. They tell us that all is peace among us-that we are not attacked by the lndians-and that they do not believe we will be. When the knife is at our throats-the tomahawks are upon our heads-our houses burned to the ground, and our property de- stroyed, it is then too late to inform our Co., vernment, and ask for succor. The millions in the United States Treasury, and her aveng- ing soldiers can avail us nothing, when our deceased brethren are buried victims of sa- wage war When that period arrives, we can arenge our slaughtered kin-we can throw aside the seabbard, and sword in hand plunge into the mighty strife-our farms can lay wasted-our stores will be left deserted, and we will wreak signal revenge upon our enc mies But that will not restore to life our friends, or a feeling of security for the fl- ture.

 It is to avoid this awful state of things, that we are striving. tis easier to prevent a war, and it can be done at a less expense, than the evils can be repaired