For Frederick Douglass' Paper.

THE RIGHT OF COLORED INDIVIDUALS.

NEW YORK, June 20, 1856.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ESQ.: DEAR SIR:—I
beg to correct a mistake, made by you in your
issue of the 6th inst., under the head of "The
Right of Colored Individuals," and also to state
an additional fact. In relation to the suit
brought by Parker, a colored man, to recover
damages from the 6th Avenue R. R. in this city,
for the expulsion of his wife and child from one
of the Company's cars, you say "the venue was
probably laid in Richmond County with a view
of getting a jury more favorable to the plain
tiffs, than was likely to be obtained in New
York." This was not so. The reason of it was,
because the plaintiffs resided there. I make
this correction, as the effect might be to injure
their cause—which is still in suit.

The jury, as I understand, were eleven for giving the plaintiff one thousand dollars damages, and one for a verdict of "no cause of action."

Yours, very truly,

H. R.