For Frederick Douglass' Paper.

COUNTY FREEDOM ASSOCIATIONS.

"Proud that beneath our proudest dome,

And by our humblest cottage hearth,

There is a welcome and a home

For every stricken soul on earth!"

MR. EDITOR:—One writes—"History, like a tantalogical orator, is frequently found to repeat itself." Whether the comparing of History to Nature, the events it records to her ever-changing yet recurring seasons,—welcome spring, golden summer and sumptuous autumn succeeding to each winter's snows and gloomy;—will not a better comparison—I stay not to enquire—but would call attention to the similarity of those "County Associations," (for the protection of the respective districts against the marauding adherent of Charles, and his prince of plunderers, Rupert,) which heralded the grand "Cromwelliad" of old England, to the recently inaugurated RACINE COUNTY LEAGUE.

I do this chiefly to introduce the following suggestive passage from Thomas Carlyle, which all connected with such societies will do well to heed:

"The Eastern Association is alone worth naming. All the other Associations, no man of emphasis, (or duly forward to risk himself,) being in the midst of them, fell in a few months to pieces; only this of Cromwell's subsisted, enlarged itself, grew famous."

Honor to the Racine Pioneers, whose words can neither be "trifling" nor "insane," while backed by deeds! That their worthy example may be widely followed throughout the Free States, and that "men of emphasis" may be nowhere wanting,—heartily wishes a

CROMWELLIAN.