For Frederick Douglass' Paper.

"SO MUCH OF THE BRUTE."

(Southern Papers.)

FRIEND DOUGLASS:—The pro-slavery spirit often exhibits itself incidentally in a measure more revolting that in its more studied positions.

If a slave defends himself against abuse the pro-slavery editors exclaim "so much of a brute!" What perversion of truth! To exercise the rights of self-defence is one of the noblest indications of manhood. In the Radical Abolition meeting in New York, on the 14th inst., it is expected that the orators will maintain that "the slaveholder as such has no rights which the slaves are bound to respect." Judge Taney may not be pleased with this
proposed amendment of his proposition—but the people will yet adopt it.

J. R. J.

The above was mislaid or it would have been inserted before. —[Ed.]