GERRIT SMITH'S LETTER TO MR. CROSWELL.

F. DOUGLASS, ESQ.: DEAR SIR:—I wish to offer to the public and following detached observations on some of the statements of our common friend, Hon. Gerrit Smith, in his letter to Mr. Croswell, as published in your monthly number of the present month.

Mr. Croswell says, that Fremont ignores the right of property in man; but that Col. Cochrane recognizes it.

Mr. Smith says, that the Abolitionists agree with Mr. Croswell, yet would abolish slavery; and then gives what equivocal credit he can to the charge against them, of folly and wickedness.

Mr. Smith says, the North cannot afford to be divided by miserable party prejudices and jealousies! But who are so notorious for such prejudices and jealousies, as himself, and his head prophet, W.L. Garrison?

Mr. Smith says, let our one common concern be to save our country. But there is another and greater concern, viz., that is to save impartial liberty and justice, without which the country would remain what it is, in these respects, an empire of fraud, felony and murder.

Mr. Smith says, that the President was educated to worship the Constitution. Nay; but to worship a travested, falsified and mutilated thing called the Constitution, as differerent from the real Constitution of the U.S., as impartial liberty is from the chattel slave system.

Mr. Smith displays great zeal in contending that the Abolitionists agree with Messrs. Croswell and Cochrane. According to his school of Abolition, perhaps they do. But the Abolition heart can never compromise with slavery. The double-minded only, whatever they may be called, can possibly prefer political expediency to everlasting truth and love.

There are, indeed, many, many, called Christians and Abolitionists, who are greater enemies to religion and truth, than honest infidels. But the whole heart is what God requires, and no single feature, however beautiful, can be sanely substituted for the whole.

C. STUART.

LORA, C. W., Jan. 17, 1862.