For Frederick Douglass' Paper.

NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE.

FRIEND DOUGLASS:—Having just returned from the sitting of the New England Conference, held in the city of Providence, R. I., I am happy to inform you that a resolution was adopted there, in behalf of freedom and equality, reading as follows:

, That it be the sense of this Conference that a prayer go forth from this honorable body, through the columns of , in vindication of the rights of the people of color and their children; that all the public schools in the State of Rhode Island, and all the Northern States where proscription is tolerated, be thrown open for the reception of colored children, without distinction; that we do, and ever shall, deprecate proscriptive schools in the Northern States.

Signed in behalf of the A. M. E. Zion Conference,

P. ROSS,

Seconded by

S. M. GILES.