For Frederick Douglass' Paper

"THE MONEY CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION."

In an article which I wrote July 4th, for this paper, I said, "wrong construction of the Constitution."

The printer made me say, "money construction," &c.

Never did the blunder of a printer, or of a writer, or anybody's blunder, get deeper into the genuine philosophy of a subject.—To a great extent, it is the "money construction" which is the source of the wrong construction. "Love of money," as much as the love of power, is the root of this evil. Daniel Webster gave the pro-slavery interpretation to the Constitution of the United States! It was the "money construction" which made him such an X-pounder of our charter of liberty.

J. R. J.Johnson, James Rawson

Probably the frequent correspondent of Frederick Douglass’ Paper, James Rawson Johnson, an African American abolitionist from Syracuse, New York. Johnson was a supporter of the Liberty party and the religious abolitionist cause, as well as hydropathy. FDP, 26 June, 11 September, 9 October 1851, 1 January, 12, 26 February, 25 March, 8 April, 20 May, 9 July, 15 October 1852; DouglassPapers, ser. 3, 1:582-84, 587-88, 590-92, 596, 599.

July 21st, 1854.