For Frederick Douglass' Paper

CANANDAIGUA, Oct. 28th, 1854.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS: DEAR SIR:—I have just read Gerrit Smith's letter to Judge Bronson, which throws some doubt on the Anti-Slavery position of our estimable townsman, Myron H. Clark. Mr. Smith thinks because Mr. Clark is a Whig, and the nominee of the Whig party, therefore he cannot hold to unconstitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law, and refuse to obey its inhuman requirements.

Now, I apprehend Mr. Clark is not the kind of Whig that used to be running for office in "Tippacanoe and Taylor too" times; but he is a Buffalo Platform Whig, and will be found true as steel to whatever he has said against slavery. He is not the man to look one way and row the other. We have not seen the like in nomination by the Whig party before. Mr. Smith also complains of Mr. Clark's want of sympathy with him when he spoke in Canandaigua last year, in behalf of the noble rescuers of Jerry.—But perhaps Mr. Smith was not aware that his meeting was held on Mr. Clark's ground; that seats were fitted up in part at Mr. Clark's expense; and that we were assured of Mr. Clark's protection from molestation. Mr. Smith gives but one man credit in Canandaigua, of standing up straight with him in his noble effort for the Jerry Rescuers.—He evidently feels like a certain prophet in ancient Israel, who thought there was but one man left to worship the Lord; yet he was assured, on high authority, that there were more than 700 of the same sort left. So, I trust in this vicinity it will be found that there are more than that number who will not bow the knee to slavery, nor obey its bloody code.

It is very important that every friend of Freedom and Temperance should cast their vote for Clark at the coming election. Not a truer man lives, or one that the allied forces of Rum and Slavery hate with more bitterness. It is death upon them without benefit of clergy, and they know it.

Yours for the right,

JOHN MOSHER.