FROM OUR PROVIDENCE CORRESPONDENT.

DEAR DOUGLASS:—Your Boston Correspondent "S," who was one of the Secretaries of the National Convention held in the city of Philadelphia, says in his last communication to your paper, that the minutes of that Convention were sent to : this may be true, but Philo has not received them, nor does he expect to receive a manuscript copy. Once upon a time, he hoped to receive a printed copy, but he is now more anxious for his friend —excuse me, Dr. Smith. Your Correspondent would have the Doctor receive a copy first, that he may be satisfied that "The Industrial School was not discussed by the Philadelphia Convention," is a mistake, if he has not already discovered the same by reading another portion of the identical paragraph that contains the denial, which says as follows: "A report got up by a few Philadelphia gentlemen proposing the establishment of Industrial Bureaus, and OBJECTING , DISCUSSED." Communipaw, I bring thee against Communipaw.

However, perhaps, he has worked his imagination to such a pitch upon this creation of his, as to give it very essence, and means that IT was before the Convention. The Doctor is mistaken as to the range of the discussion before that Convention upon the Industrial School. It is true that the Doctor objected to the phraseology of a particular sentence; which phraseology was amended or stricken out.—Nevertheless, other parts of the Philadelphia gentleman's paper containing the argument sustaining the particular assertion stricken out, was adopted by the Convention.

When we three shall meet again, Communipaw, your Boston Correspondent, (who was a Know Nothing the last I saw of him) and Philo, I will have a word with both about practice, precept, and point out to them er
rors in their estimates.

It is significant about these times to see colored men approached and importuned most earnestly to cast their votes for freedom, (having reference to Kansas) in many cases by the very men who in voting for Scott and Pierce in 1852, voted for the opposite of freedom to triumph, not only in Kansas, but in every State and Territory. The difference is here, in that case, it was felt to be bearing only against the colored man: now they have discovered that the white man's freedom is endangered. We could have told them this years ago. Let the excitement roll on. are upon the troubled waters, and whether they would have it or not, we must tend with the tide, which will flow up to freedom's march, when we can enter the desired haven, if we will

"Paddle our own canoe."

PHILO.

PROVIDENCE, April 2, 1856.