I expect that were one to dig farther into "certain groups" you'll find them to be Blacks, Slaves, Indians, French? British Loyalist's, etc.. Remember the context, and the Wars we were in with other settlers, indigenous peoples, and other Countries who laid claim to what became the United States....Remember also this was a hundred years BEFORE the Declaration of Independance and subsequent Bill of Rights.Nothing to do with safety, notice the last half of the last sentence?