For Frederick Douglass' Paper.

LETTER FROM J. M. GLOUCESTER.

NEW YORK, May 30, 1854

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ESQ: DEAR SIR:—I hasten to give you a word or two in reference to a very interesting, soul-stirring meeting, held last Sabbath evening in the Rev. Dr. Pennington's Church, in sympathy with him, for the unspeakable outrage committed upon him, by the constituted authority of the Government, in the forcible egress of his beloved brother, and his two sons, from this city, into the infernal hands of slavery.

The manner in which it was accomplished, I suppose you are now perfectly aware, from the press of this city. What I wish to communicate to you, is, that while my indignation is severe against the whole procedure, I am yet filled with joy at so glorious an exhibition of the tone and spirit, as manifested by our white friends at that meeting. It must have encouraged the deeply wounded spirit of the Dr., to have beheld so great a gathering of noble brothers and sisters, and to receive, as he did, their unfeigned sympathy. Indeed, sir, it was an illustrious tribute to Freedom, such as has never before been witnessed in this city. I do wish you had been here; it would have encouraged your great heart, in your arduous labors.

Let me say, however, that no fugitive will hereafter leave these shores, unless it is by stealth, or base falsehood, without his enemies receiving from his friends a warm reception. And why should it not be so? As Mr. Culver said, in his very effective speech at that meeting, that resistance to the Fugitive Slave Bill is virtually disobedience to no law, but when it is basely used to denied to us even the forms of law, then nothing is left us but resistance; and so thought his audience, and evinced it by the unison of happy hands and voices. I do trust sir, that in this day of hope, the problem is working out, that we are, at least, to have one part of this great country glorious and free; that in its solution, we, the people of color have a wonderful, glorious interest, and that we may greatly aid its consummation. I trust then we shall not forget the great part we bear in the interesting drama now, that we only have a hold on Freedom—a claim to its right —as we stand up as freemen—stand by free men—Freedom—advocating by means, by voice, by moral and intellectual worth and loveliness—using the weapons that God and the Right has placed in our power, for so
happy an achievement.

Let this be our position; and then the
host that is with us, armored for Freedom,
with the God of Freedom, shall battle on
our side, and we shall be victorious. My
kindred, your kindred, all of our kindred,
shall come out of the house of bondage.—
Ethiopia shall lift up her unfettered, redeem-
ed hands unto God!

Your friend,

J. M. GLOUCESTER.