FROM OUR PITTSBURGH CORRESPONDENT.

F. DOUGLASS, ESQ.: SIR:—Being in regular
receipt of your valuable paper, I have noticed the
regular absence of any communication from this
point which has induced me to take the liberty
of supplying the vacancy to the best of my
ability.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view—so
poetic inspiration has long since inscribed—and
so we colored Pennsylvanians record our
wishes relative to the political privileges "re
served and not delegated" to us by the Chris
tianized nineteenth century—civilized descend
ants of the liberal-minded Quaker founder of
our "State Patent"—wealthy in yearnings, but
"poverty struck" in the full sense of the term
in means and application, concerning the recov
ery of the great desideratum in republican so
ciety, political equality.

Placed at a great distance from us by consti
tutional statue, its denial seems to beg successfully, too, our admiration of it and its Anglo-Saxon surroundings, without infusing any vitality into our purposes, or drawing out latent energies of some practicability. We are, truly, a
jug without a handle. Apathy has settled up
on us a chronic affection, individually and socially. Here we glide along, unconscious or indifferent to the great aims and ends of humanity, enjoying largely the results of modern civilization; without contributing any one elementary principle to its more perfect development. There is a constituent part wanting in (the op
inion of a respectable portion of the Anglo
Saxons inhabiting the northern arch of this great
Republic) the physiological structure of the
spinal column of some of their worthy repre
sentatives in Congress, called , which
article, when applied to ossified matter in gen
eral, is capable of rendering astounding results—more
particularly when it is kneaded thoroughly into the , and upper joints
of the arms, thereby giving ability to do what
the intellect dictates. Look at us fairly, and
you cannot come to any other conclusion, than
we either have not any or strength in
our arms, or have not the other economical
arrangement, called joints, but, like stone and
wooden images, requiring others to dress while
we enjoy the results. Now, take the 3,500 of
our people in Alleghany County, or push it far
ther, the State at large, with its 53,000, and you
will find in a list of our "callings," nineteen
twentieths pursuing just such avocations as
take the least amount of thinking, the least

exertion, the least time to learn them in, the most
leisure, not throwing aside the consideration of
as much "material aid" as is compatible with
. If there are two causes exerting
more influence than any others, which give apol
ogy for this state of things, they are to be found
in a general want of business knowledge with
its relation to dollar and cent together with
the selfish policy of our best business men.

At the late State Fair, held here in the be
ginning of this month, I noticed a colored man
busily engaged with a man's foot; and judging
from his position and manipulations, I conclud
ed he was blacking his boots. Subsequently, I
learned he received what school-boys call a re
ward of merit; but whether it was for his skill
in applying the ebony past, or its own intrinsic
value, I do not know.

I cannot close this letter without a word or
two about politics. Passing over its bitter par
tizan feelings, its falsehoods, its short-comings,
and its long stretchings, particularly against the
negroes on one side, and "I'm not an Aboli
tionist" in the prelude of Republican
stump-speaker, on the other, I will give you an
extract from an article used by the Democrats
as a campaign document among the Pennsyl
vania Dutch, which was ferreted out, translated
by one with Republican proclivities, and handed
over to the Editor of the
of this city for publication. Here is the ex
tract from this anonymous document:

"And more—the Abolitionists, when they
have the President, will split the Union, then
there will be civil war, and Pennsylvania, our
State, lies exactly between North and South—there
the war will be waged; over our land and
ground will come an ugly confusion, as the war
will bring the houses and barns to be burnt
down, the grain trodden down, the cattle poisoned, old people and children killed, the women
and girls ravished, perhaps by niggers in the
bargain. Now reflect—our wife and girls ravished by niggers; and you, you men and boys,
must go in the war. That is the result when
the Abolitionists and niggers get the government in their hands."

Yours, truly,

DUEQUESNE.

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 23rd, 1856.