FRED. DOUGLASS ON THE "FREEDMEN."—A letter from Fred Douglass to a friend in England, is published in which he says:

The newly-freed people are victimized on every hand. Their strong men have been literally swept into the army, and the weak ones left to endure untold suffering. Heretofore our Government has hardly paid them money enough to buy the shoes they march in. The more you can say of the swindle by which our (The Federal) Government claims the respect of mainkind for abolishing slavery—at the same time that it is practically re-establishing that hateful system in Louisiana, under General Banks—the better. I have not readily consented to the claims set up in the name of anti-slavery for our Government, but I have tried to believe all for the best. My patience and faith are not very strong now.