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LETTER FROM FREDERICK DOUGLASS LETTER FROM FREDERICK DOUGLASS DOUGLASS, Victoria Hotel, Belfast, ) January 1st, 161G ) Mv Dear Friend Uarrison: I am nsw about to take leave of tbe Emo raid Isle, forOlasgow, Scotland. I have been here a little more than four months. l tn this time, I have given no expression of the views, feelings and opinions which I have formed, respecting the character and condi tiou of tho people of this land. I have re frained thus purposely. 1 wish to spe;:l; ad visedly and in order to do this, I have waio- l till 1 trust experience has brought ir.y opin ions to an intelligent main ity. 1 have been thus careful, not because I think what 1 in tv say will hive much elect in shaping the o piuions of the world, hut because whatever of influence 1 in iy possess, w hether little or much, I wm'.i it to go in tho right direction, and according to truth. I hardly need say that, in speaking of Ireland, I shall be influ enced by no prejudices in favor of America. 1 think my circumstances all forbid that. 1 lnvn no end to serve, no creed to upholJ, no governmri.t to defend; and as to nation, 1 be long to none. I have no protection at lio;niv or resting-place, abroad. Tho 1ml of my birth welcomes me to her shores only as a g'.jvp, and pi:ru3 with contempt tin; i lea of treating mc differently. So that 3 am an oat east from the society of my childhood, and r.u outlaw in tho land of l.iy birth. '1 am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as ail my fathers were.' That men should bo patriotic i to me perfectly natural; and as a philosoph ical fact, am ublu to give it an inhllee'url recognition. Hut no further can 1 go. If ever I had any patriotism, or any capacity for tho feeling, it was whipt out of me long since by the lash of tho American soul-drivers. In thinking of America, 1 sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky her grand old woods her fertile fields her beau tiful rivers her mighty lakes, and stir-crowned mountains. But my rapturo is soon check ed, my joy is soon turned to mourning. When 1 remember that nil is cursed with the infernal spirit of slaveholding, robbery and wrong, when I remember that with the wa ters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten, and that her most fertile fields drink daily of tho warm blood of my outrag ed sisters, I am filled with unutterable loath ing, and led to reproach myself that any thing could fall from my lips in praise of such a laud. America will not allow her children to love her. .She seems bent en compelling those who would be her warmest friends, to he her worst enemies. May Cod give her repentance before it is too late, is the ardent prayer of my heart. I will continue to pray, labor and wait, believing that she cannot al ways be insensible to the dictates of justice, or deaf to tho voice of humanity. My opportunities for learning the character and condition of the people of this land have been very great. I have travelled almost from the hill of 'Howth' to the Ciant's Causeway and from the Giant's Causeway to Cape Clear. During these travels, I havo met with much in the character and condition of the people to approve, and much to condemn much that has thrilled mo with pleasure and very much that has filled me with pain. I will not, in this letter, attempt to give any description of those scenes which havo given me pain. This I will do hereafter. I have enough, ami more than your subscribers will bo dis posed to read at one time, of the bright side of the pietuie. I can truly say, I have spent some of the happiest moments of my life since landing in this country. I seem to have un dergone a transformation. 1 live a now life. The warm and generous co-operation extend ed to me by tho friends of my despised race the prompt and liberal manner with which the press has rendered me its aid tho glori ous enthusiasm with which thousands have flocked to hear the cruel wrongs of my down trodden and long enslaved fellow-countrymen portrayed the deep sympathy lor the slave, and the strong abhorrence of tho slaveholder everywhere evinced the cordiality with which members and ministers of various re ligious bodies, and of various shades of re ligious opinion, havo embraced me, and lent me their aid the kind hospitality constantly proffered to ma by persons of the highest rank in society the spirit of freedom that seeui9 to animate all with whom 1 come in contact and the entire absence of every thing that looked like prejudice against me, on ac count of the color of my skin contrasted so strongly with my long and bitter experience in the t'nitcd .States, that 1 look with wonder and amazement on tho transition. In the .Sourthern part of the I'niled States, 1 was a slave, thought of and spoken of as property. In the language of the LAW, 'held, talicn,re paled and adjudged to br a chattel in tin hand of my owners and povsesors, and lh-ir excew tars, administrator, end assigns, ton1 intents, ennstrur!ions,and inirpiisr irh'ttxoert .' Brew Diiiest, 221. In tho Northern Slates, a fu gitive slave, liable to be hunted at any mo ment like a felon, and to be hurled into the terrible jaws of slavery doomed by an invet erate prejudice against color to in-ult and out rage on every hand, (Massachusetts out sf the question) denied the privileges and cour tesies common to others in tho use of the most humble means of conveyance shut out from the cabins on steamboats refused admission to respectable hotels caricatured, scorned, sculled, mocked and maltreated with impuni ty by any on", (no mitt r how black his heart.) so he has a whits slum Hut now be hold tho change! Eleven days end a half gone, and 1 have crussed three thousand miles of the perilous deep. Ins! Mil of a democrat ic government, 1 am under a monarchical gn.ernnicnt. Instead of the bright blue sky of America, I am cov ered with l!:: soft prey f. g of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, ami lo! the chattel becomes a in in. I gaze around in vain for onn who will question my equal humanity, claim me as his slave, or offer me an insult, I employ a cab I am seated be side white people 1 reach the hotel I enter tho name door I am sho'. n into the same par lor I dine el the same table and no one is oifonded. No delicate no;,- grow.j deformed in my presence. 1 find no di.iiculiy here in obtaining ad mi s.iion in: i any place r !' worship, instruction, or tiniusi in ut, n "oual t"r;::s with people s:s while as any 1 ever saw ia the !' ni'.ed States. I meet nothing to remind mo ei' i:iy complexion. I find myself regarded and treated at every turn with t'm kindness and deference paid to white people. When I i;o to church. I am m-l by no upturned nose and scornful lip tu tell mc, 4i"c dan I u.'.'oie nigger f in here. I reiimaiber, about two years ago, there was in lioston, mar the southwest corner of I'oston Common, a menigerie. 1 had long desired to sco such a collection as 1 under stood were being exhibited there. Never having r. ii opportunity while a stave, I re-, solved to seize this, iny first, tinee my es cape. 1 went, and as 1 approached tho en trance to g-ain admission, 1 was met and tcld by the door-keeper, in a Irirsh and contemp tuous tone, 11 We don't ulhw niggers in!i:re." 1 alio remember attending a revival meeting in too Rev. 1 lenry Jackson's ii.ceting-liousa lit Na'.v ISodfor.l, and going up the broad ai:;lc to find a s-at, I w..s met by a good deacon, who told me in a pious tone, '-We don't ullow niggers in k-jri!" Soon after my arrival tu Now Uouford from the South, I had a strong desire to attend tho Lyceum, but was told, "V.'ict don't allow niggcrt in h. re!" Whilj pis iing from New York to lioston on thf steamer Mass ichu.sc'.ts, o:i the night of Dili Dee. Ui:i, when chilled thro' willi the cold, I went into tho cabin to gel a Hub w arm. I was soon touched on the shoulder, and tuld, "l'e don't allow niggers in here!" On arriving in lioston from c.n anti-slavery tour, hungry and tired, I went into an eating house near my friend Mr. Campbell's to get some refreshments. 1 was met by a lad in a wliito apron, "We don't allow nigger in here!" A week or two before leaving iho United St iles, 1 had a meeting appointed at Weymouth, tho home of that glorious band of true abolitionists, the Weston family and others. On attempt ing to tike a seat in tho Omnibus to that place, 1 was told by the driver (and 1 never shall forget his fiendish hate,) " don't allow riigg,r in hrre!" Tii.ink heaven for tho re spile I now enjoy! 1 had been in Dublin but a few days, when a gentleman of great respectability kindly ottered to conduct ine through all the public buildings of that beau tiful city; and a little afterwards, 1 found myself dining with the Lord Mayor of Dub lin. What a pity there was not soma Amer can democratic Christian at tho door of his splendid mansion, to bark out at my approach "Thru don't allow niggert in here!" The truth is, the people hero know nothing of tho republican negro hale prevalent in our glori ous land. They measure and esteem men according totheirmoral and intellectual worth, anduot according to the calor of their skin. Whatever may bo said of the aristocracies here, there is none based on the color of a man's skin. This species of aristocracy be longs pre-eminently to "the land of tho free, and" tho homo of the brave." 1 have never found it abroad in any hut Americans. It slicks to them wherever they go. They find it almost as hard to get rid ef it as to get rid of their skins. Tho Bcc.onrt day after my arrival at Liver pool, in company with my friend Bull'um,and several other friends, I went to Katon Hall, tho residence of the Marquis of Westminster, one of the most splendid buildings in Kng land. On approaching tho door, 1 found sev eral of our American passengers, who came out with us in the Cambria, waiting at the door for admission, as but one party was al lowed in tho house at a time. We all had to wait till ths company within came out. And of all tho faces.expressive oi ciiagriu.iiiose oi me Americans were ore-eminent, i ney iookcu as sour as vinegar, and bitter as gall, when they found I wastoboadniiltcd on equal terms with themselves. W hen the door was open ed, I walked in, on an equal footin" with mv while fellow-citizens, and from all I cnnl.l see, I had as much attention paid mc by the servants unit snowcu us inrougii the bouse, as any with a paler skin. As I walked thro' tho building, tbe statuary did not fall down, the pictures did not leap from their pl-.ccs, the doors did not refuse to open, and the ser vants did not say, 'We don't allow niuuers in here. A happy new year to you.au 1 all ihe friends of freedom. Kxcuso this imperfect scrawl, and believe me to bo ever and always yours, FREDERICK DOUGLASS From the Pennsylvania Freeman THE LIBERTY PARTY. To the few words which wo have to say upon this subject, we respectfully reuuest the attention of the abolitionists of the Liberv I'ar'.v. e are aware that in that party there are warm-hearti.d and sincere frki: is of the slave, and however mistaken we may regard their policy, wc douht not they are secunnr to promo'.e the cau.;e of freedom. Such can not close thf'ir eyes la the fact, however much the1 nny desire todoso.that the Liberty party is on the decline. They, doubtless, have per ceived and regretted this, yet perhaps, will bo startled at our prediction, that, in a very short time, it will havo gone llui way of ail similar parties, and tho places which now know it will know it no more. Judging from the history of the past, and from tho nature of tilings, we believed, at the beginning, that it was destined to a brief existence, but now there appear cw lunees of its actual decay, which must arrest the notice ef its friends and supporters. Wc speak of these in no spirit of triumph over opponent-, lit from a desire to prove tho verity of predictions, in terred ul an c ir'ier stage of our enterprise, but because they are facts which demand expla nation, and which, we believe, may be used for the benefit of the anti-slavery cause. At the time of the last Presidential elec tion, it was accounted a striking evidence of the growing prosperity of the Liberty party, that, amid the excitement of the struggle, when so great and sometimes successful ef forts were made to win abolitionists from their integrity, and induce them,,.r onee, on so important an occasion, when the annexa tion of Texas, and the coiiscn' eul extension of slavery was to depend, perhaps, on their votes, to giva them luratiM "ehnl.lrr, that par ty was able to poll so many votes as (he re turns of tho election showed. At cur last c lection, then, w hen these diflieulties no long er existed, rind tho comparative apathy of the public mind was favorable to its success, the party, even if il had made no progress in the interval, should have polled a much larg er vote than in IS 1-1. lint what was the fact? In Massachusetts, tho pioneer state, where no efforts have been spared, and no ze.il wanting among tho leaders of tho party; there, with a daily issued organ, anil all the appliance of successful operation, the num ber of voters fell, in round numbers, from nine to six thousand. In Ohio and New York, other strong holds of iho party, there has been no perceptible increase, and in east ern Pennsylvania, where it has had tho ad vantage of a weekly newspaper, able lectur ers, industrious committees, and a fair field, furnished by the apathy of the public mind, relative to the election, ine increase was scarce ly worth notice. It is a f.ict somewhat re markable, that in five years, there should hrivo been an increase of less than two hundred votes. In l - :0, the vote for liirney was 107; in IS 1 1, for Lemoyne, ll)H; in for Hir- ney 2 J7; in Hlo, for Canal Commissioner, 301. As to tho western part of the State, we bavj the testimony of one of its leaders, and the ed tor of its organ there, that the professed friends of its principles, seem iaditferoiit about vot ing for them. In New Y'ork the pvrty is on tho eve of a disastrous crisis. In the approaching elec tion to form a Convention for tho purpose of amending tho State- constitution, its friends will be compelled to chooss between adher ence to the party organization, and fidelity to principle. The extension of tho right of suf fiage to the colored population being the on ly question of peculiar interest to anti-slavery voters, the Whigs are very naturally call ing upon them to aid in securing it, a d not to defeat tho measure by pursuing their poll cy of independent nominations. If they re linquish this policy, and unite with the Whigs, they will probably carry this meas ure, but they will lose their identity as a par ty, and practically acknowledge that it is sometimes right to vote with pro-slavery par ties, thus conceding tho point for which they havo so long contended; if on the other hand they pursue their plan of independent nomi nations, they will provo that they value par ty forms ubovo practical righteousness. hicliever course, tiierciore, nicy may adopt, the party must sustain severo injury. There is, doubtless, a combination of caus es to which the diminution of Liberty votes may bo traced, but we do not think that it is to be ascribed to a flagging zeal in behalf of freedom. A principal cause, we believe, is a want of fuiih, and consequently of interest, in the party, as an anti-slavery measure. It certainly is not tho result of a want of zeal or of skill on behalf of its leaders, but a want of vitality in the party. In view of these obvious facts, wo cannot but hope that many of tho friends of the slave, who are supporting this party, are beginning to perceive its inadequacy us a maans to the proposed end. Wo woulJ ask such, to re consider their position, and inquirn if there is not "a more excellent uj-.v." n i,;,ri,n, rn.i of action, whereon they once stood, when with tho present leaders of the Liberty parly, they deprecated the formation of a political anti-slavery parly, and urged good and sulli cient reasons against it, and from which tbev were tempted, by tho specious bait of poli- .po, , m'sccnu. Having tneU and proved toe iiiedicieney of apolitical party to carry ;..i a moral reform, we trust that they will be t idueed to r. turn to the position which they tormerly occupied, and prove again the supe riority of moral over political power. There in our print strength lies. Tew imagine that toe machinery of political parties can convert men to the truth, or win them to the practice of righteousness. It is admitted that thi3 must he done, to prepare them to do the work for which the parly was formed. If the time, the money, the energy, which have been ex pended upon the m..re machinery of this now declining party, bad been devoted to this end, bow much might have been accomplished which now remains to be done. A great ren ovation of public sentiment mu! be wrought before a distinct anli-slavery parly can pos sibly succeed, and when" that "change is wrought, other political organizations, which are ever tho exponents of public sentiment will do the woik, without tho necessity of such a party. In what wc have said on this occasion, we havo pokcn as to the friends t.f the slave, who have our common cause ut heart. We have spoken frankly and plainly, but in kind ness, and for the slave's sake." To those of our readers who may diller from us in opin ion, and especially to those to whom this ar ticle is addressed, v. e s iy, " Hear us for our cause ! " COMMUNICATIONS. Columbus, 2nd mo. 5th, 1816. Friends r. JHorr : The great Whig Convention was held here yesterday, every county in the State except one was represented.the meeting was harmonious, Win. llehb of Duller coun ty was duly nominated for fiovernnr; the vote on second ballol stood, for Ilebb 153, Collier C3, FUhor 37, Wade -28. In the af ternoon a most enthusiastic meeting was held in the State House yard, which was address ed first by Collier, then by Pebb. The Whis are truly encouraged having a very a ble candidate who has pledged himself to traverse the st ile. Oh what cause of rejoic ing would it be to down trodden humanity if the Whig cause was the cause of human rights ! Evon in the state of Ohio we should have Ibis strong man, young, talented, ener getic, pleading for the redemption of the bond man. We should have the Ohio St.ito Jour nal enlisted manfully in the glorious work, and an hundred daily and weekly sheets throughout t!ic State beating time with it and rallying half a million freemen under the unfurled banner of Freedom; Liberty would become the great idea of Whig Legislation in '!'ickoye State, her example would be followed, and "Tho dwellers on the rocks and in Iho vales, shout to each other, And the mountain tops from distant moun tains catch the flying joy. Till nation after nation, t night ihe strain, Earth rolls the rapturous llosanna round !" What a theme to contemplate the result of Such an array enlisted under a banner un spotted with tho blood of the despoiled ! If a handful of abolitionists can rock a nation, what could not be done with such an array as the professed friends of freedom would con stitute, if they would but m iko unirersul lib erty, tho ground work, the corner-stone of their enterprise I But it should be humilitnting to men who aro advocating the cause of partial liberty to bo under tho necessity, in order to give a sort of spuriousness to their discourse, to say "e qual rights" "no exclusive privileges" &c, when they know they at the same tinio de spise that doctrine. 'et all tho political par ties do it. I havo heard such expressions daily during tho past month by democrats. Yesterday W. Bebb declared himself in fa vor of the equality of mankind, whether Eu ropean, Asiatic or African. Tho Liberty party aro for equal rights to all opposed to taxation without representation, or depriving any one of an inalienable right. At the same time they deny half of tho human family tho right to vote while they claim the right to tax tlicm, and aro, under certain circumstanc es in favor of depriving men of one of their dearest inalienable rights their lives. Thus do wo see that practice and profes sion do net go hand in hand, however great tho pretensions to this consistency. You will perceive tho tuuth have tarried the day, again, in tho nomination of a candi date for (Jovernor, whether lie be an anti-slavery man or not, we have no evidence that I have yet learned except what he has said since he was nominated. I must acknowl edge that in the few words he spoke yester day on that subject he talked just like an ab olitionist. He will perhaps be quite ultra on the subject when he gets up near tho lake shore, but anti-slavery voters ought to inform themselves how he was regarded by the anti slavery people in Butler county, whether on their side or against them. Second day next is tho day assigned for tho discussion of the Black Laws in the House, I shall stay a few days longer than I intended on that account. The temperance bill lias not yet passed through, several interesting debates have ta ken place upon it. The bill provides that a m ije.ity of the voters of any township, &c, by remonstrating against tho granting of li censo may prevent any being granted and that the court should continue to withhold until a majority should petition for it. More than twelve thousand persons have petitioned the present Legislature for this or a similar law. When this bill came up the other day A. Foust moved its iudefinito postponement. J. Flinn said selling liquor was wrong, and to license an evil was erroneous. He would have the license law repealed and offered an amendment lo that effect. C. L.Yallandigham asked the gcnllmin from Hamilton whether he would vote to r frn and then to prohibit the sale of strong drink. He said that gen tleman had got himself into this position. Flinn said ho would talk of the prohibition when it came up did not seem to relish the idea of taking either horn of the dilemma. J. P. Cutler was in favor of the entire prohi bition of selling strong drink. B. S. Cowen was himself in favor of prohibiting all sales cf a less quantity than one quart, but thought the public mind not ready to repeal the li cense law. S. Mason thought it would de tract from the "dignity" of the Court to pass this bill, we ought to repose the greatest con fidence in a Court. He was in favor of the "let alone" doctrine. The act would be a fearful a most pernicious one. The Court by the passage of this bill would incur tho "stigma of a partizan to the cold water cause ! " Tho bill was most ably defended by T. W. Tipton, after which the voto was taken upon its indefinite postponement and lost, Y'eas 31, Nays 32. This bill has again been recommitted and I have a hope it will pass. Tipton is to be employed agaiii by the Stato Temperance Society and will endeavor to prepare the public mind for more decisive action next Miitor. Respectfully, B. D. NO UNION BETWEEN SLAVERY AND RELIGION. FmcN'ns Editors: This is a subject of much importance, and of common discussion. In order to give my thoughts, I will in tho first place speak of religion, and secondly of slavery. If (iod designed when ho niado man that he should bo happy, and establish ed religion as a means to mako him so, it follows that religion is right, and any relig ion that will not make him so, is a false re ligion. And if it be true that Cod created man a religious being, (and if he did not, ho could not be religious without being created a- new,) and established laws for his government as such, it follows that obedience to these taws constitute his religion; 'and the effects of this obedience, his religious enjoyment. And as man's physical existenco requires a union of tho mental and physical things of creation, bo also it requires a union of the mental and physical laws to govern this existence. Heneo the violation of the oiio is an infri.ig menl of tho other, as it has a tendency, in a greater or less degree, to sever the link which unites them. And as vbedienrc to tho physi cal laws, is requisite to a perfect physical ex istence, so also this perfec t physical exis tence is necessary , in order th it the mind be per fect, that it make a perfect exhibition of itself. As religion m.ikc9 men happy, that wh'n h m ikes them miserable is contrary to religion, Hence the violation of i.ll Physical, Mental, Moral and Xocixl law s, is a sin against Ged, and contrary to religion. Consequently o bedieuee lo these laws, is necessary in or der for man to be perfectly religious. For that which is physically wrong, is morally wrong, the two principles being connected by Ihe union of mental and physical things,