For Frederick Douglass' Paper.

EVERTON, Ind., March 20, 1854.

F. DOUGLASS:—Land despotism makes dependents and cowards of the million—prevents men from carrying out their con
victions of right and wrong. They cannot
pursue a conduct in life which would ensure
their own self-respect. They invariably nod
and bow to the prejudices of the times—are
too weak and dependent to boldly meet them,
lest poverty should more fiercely stare them
in the face. Thus they overlook the real
cause of this slavery—the cause of all sla
very, (land monopoly)—and attack a thou
sand things as the cause quite foreign from
the truth, and not even indirectly calculated
to relieve the evil. They would break the
bonds of masters and employers, without
giving the poor dependents any place to live,
or from which to draw by their favor a sub
sistence from. They would simply release
them from one set of masters and employ
ers, only to fall into perhaps a worse—into an
uncettain condition for the procurement of
the necessaries of life.
Your friend and well-wisher in
the cause for universal liberty,
JAMES ELLIOT.