The following will speak for itself. The writer needs no recommendation to the confidence of our readers.

BYBERRY, Pa., Dec. 25, 1854

MY DEAR FRIEND: I cannot repress the feeling to say that I thank you most heartily and earnestly for the well-timed castigation of McCane Smith. He deserved it, and I like the manner in which you have laid on the lash. The mistake of our friends, in dealing with "colored" pro slavery men, has always been, that they have shown a daintiness and scrupulosity most sickening to me. Intensely selfish, ungrateful and mean as has been the course of many of these "educated gentlemen," (?) it is well that they should be fairly dealt with—and in the case of this Smith, I again thank you, and add, "well done."

Yours, very truly,

ROBERT PURVIS