For Frederick Douglass' Paper.

MADISON CO., Dec. 4, 1854.

MY DEAR FRIEND DOUGLASS:—I am now snowed in within six miles of our good and glorious friend, GERRIT SMITH'S house, and I can feel the influence so sensibly of this MODEL man among white men, that I have thought that I could not improve the time better than to write a few lines to my model man among colored men; and that man is FREDERICK DOUGLASS. I know of nothing that will be more agreeable to me, than to report to you a little of my whereabouts. I am in Clarkville, very comfortably situated, (after a hard day's work on the Sabbath,) in the kind family of N. S. Cady, Esq., of Clarkville. I had meetings at Canastota and this place; they were well attended for such a day, for it snowed hard all day. The meeting in this place in the evening, was a sterling one, and I talked to the people as well as I know how. It seemed to have a good effect upon them, and I think good was done. I had a good time myself with Brother Stickney's people. I was to go North today to attend other meetings; but the snow—O the snow, it compells me to disappoint, and will for some days. There are some things that we cannot overrule, you know, in this world. I am trying, in connection with talking on slavery, to do something for our brethren that are so nobly struggling from bondage to freedom; and a noble struggle it is, to try to be free. We are passing them every week, more or less.

I congratulate you on your late triumphant tour at the West, and your safe return to you own State again, where hundreds of us rejoice to know that you are one among us, for we consider it an honor to live in the State where your influence is felt, as it is in the State of New York. Would to God we had a FREDERICK DOUGLASS in every State of this wicked and hellish Union of political and church devils. O that every man among us would truly be himself, and not ape after those that would use us meanly, for their own convenience. (O, let us be men and not apes!) We cannot all be Douglasses; but we could do a mighty work in this land for outraged humanity. I rejoice at the stand that some of our friends have taken in the State of Pa., in inviting FREDERICK DOUGLASS to their State, where much has been done by some to destroy his influence.—We are happy to see such honorable names among the many—as Dr. J. J. Gould Bias, Prof. C. L. Reason, and Wm. Whipper and others. If the LORD will enable you to raise such a flame for liberty, in other parts of the State, as you did in Sugar Grove, Pa., last summer, I shall rejoice greatly; for that was a time that will never be forgotten by many of the friends in Sugar Grove, Pa. I have seen a great many men that called themselves the ministers of the most high God; (and many of them, no doubt, were;) but I never, in all my remembrance, saw the man that looked more heavenly to me than did FREDERICK DOUGLASS, the beautiful Sabbath day that he stood in that Grove to address the hundreds that had come from afar to listen to his unbounded eloquence. But enough from us, for the half cannot be told by our pen.

Truly your friend,

J. W. L.