ST. ALBANS, VA, April 16, 1855.

MY DEAR DOUGLASS: —The question has
often been asked by the pro-slavery press
and pulpit- What have the abolitionists of
the North done to "benefit the poor bondman
of the South, or to aid in the downfall of
American slavery ? And the charge has of-
ten been made, that their course has been so
fanatical as to exasperate the slaveholder
and rivet the fetters tighter on the galled
limbs of the slave. By their argument, many
kind-hearted men and women at the North,
have been kept back from doing what their
consciences dictated to them as duty to their
suffering fellow-men. But, thank God ! the
time has fully come when light cannot be
kept back from the people. They now see
great importance attached to the anti-slavery
enterprise. That cause is no longer in [?]-
brio ; it is no longer weak and unprotected
before the merciless rage of an infuriated
mob; it no longer has to sit in silence to
meet the scoff and menace of base political
demagogues in the halls of national or state
legislation. Its strength in manliness, in
moral power, dare face the mightiest cham-
pion of the slave power, and speak for right
in defense of impartial freedom, in a voice
that cannot be misunderstood, and that
makes many a Southern doughface quail.—State after State, in the annual elections, are
now bonding before the mighty power of
abolitionism The South sees it and fears
it; for, as the mighty host moves on, bearing
the banner of freedom, justice is their guide
and equal rights is their rallying cry. No
wonder that there is fear in the Southern
camp. The following extracts I copy from
an article which lately appeared in the Mo-
bile News, one of the ablest and far-seeing
of the Southern opponents of the Northern
spirit of abolitionism. It is surely signifi-
cant. The editor says:

"The success of abolitionists in the recent
election of United States Senators from the
North and north-west is ominous. The par-
ty which, twenty years ago, was ridiculed in
the North for its insignificance in numbers
and its fanaticism, and treated with con-
tempt in the South, now controls the politi-
cal destiny of States like New York. In the
East, West and North, the reverberation of
their cannon echo from hill and valley. The
fiendish joy of their boat, their bonfires and
rockets luridly glare upon their cold sky
and snow-clad earth, in commemoration of
victory Along road, river and lake, upon
the sea shore and mountain, from old Massa-
chusetts to Wisconsin, shout answers from
their jubilant followers."

This is language that cannot be misunder-
stood. It shows that there is potency in the
anti-slavery of the North, to call forth such
a growl from this Southern watch-dog of
slavery. But he says further:

"The election of several abolition Sena-
tors is not the triumph of men. Mr. Sew
ard's and Mr. Wilson's election is no expo-
nent of individual success; it the expo
nent of a great moral power; it is the pulsa-
tion of the heart of a great revolution which
has been gathering slowly, but with accelerated progress. If, then, the election of
abolition Senators is an index of a revolution in the North, and not of individual success—and if it be true that revolutions never
go backwards, what is the South to do? She
must look to no party of men north of Mason
& Dixon's line for safety She must not ex
pect it in the Constitution. The South must
prepare to rely upon herself for abolitionists
will, at no distant day, put her out of the
pale of the Union."

No one can read such talk as the above,
from a Southern press, without feeling as-
sured that there is trouble in the camp some-
where. But hear him further: