For Frederick Douglass' Paper.

LATITIA ELIZABETH LOGUEN.

SYRACUSE, Aug. 14, 1855.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS: DEAR SIR: —I sent
you, a few days since, an obituary notice of the
death of LATITIA ELIZABETH LOGUEN, the oldest
daughter of our mutual friend, the Rev. J. W.
Loguen, of this city. I have not heard from it—probably it was not received—possibly it
could not be read, so badly as I write sometimes.

I am not willing this bereavement shall pass
without public notice. Latitia died the 30th
day of July last, aged thirteen years and nine
months, and her remains were followed to the
grave the 1st of August, by a large concourse
of our most respectable citizens. She has left
a void in the circle of her young acquaintance,
long to be felt, but never filled. Her cheerful
manners and affectionate sympathies, united to
personal and educational accomplishments, es-
pecially in music, of which she was unusually,
uncommonly gifted and instructed, made her the
delight of her home and the centre of attrac-
tion among her friends.

It would be strange if the child of such a
father and mother did not feel deeply the
wrongs of the slave. Their house if the slave's
castle, and his brave heart and stalwart arm the
defence of that castle. From his lips and from
their lips, and from her infancy, has she heard
the story of their wrongs - and never did a tale
of woe sink in a truer bosom. Hence, compassion for the slave was incarnated into her spirit-
ual being, and was a part of her nature. There-
fore, she interested her companions and drew
them into a society, of which she was President,
for the relief of fugitive slaves.

The loss of such a child to such parents,
to society, and the poor, is mitigated by the re-
flection that it is but apparent loss—and that
the heart that loves mercy and never forgets
the needy and the true, has but places her be-
hind natural scions among truer hearts than
ours, to perfect the medium through which to
pour consolation and deliverance to the sorrow-
ing and enslaved.

Respectfully yours,

JOHN THOMAS.