FOR FREDERICK DOUGLASS' PAPER.

HARRISBURG, Penn, Oct. 21, 1856.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ESQ.: DEAR SIR:—

In the 34th chapter of Jeremiah we read of
the terrible woes denounced against the Jews
for having bought in Slavery amongst them
again, after that the slaves were released by
the command of God. How much more guilty,
then, is America in holding 3 1/2 millions
of their fellow creatures in cruel slavery. Those
who argue from the Bible, that Slavery is
right, and agreeable to the word of God, forget
that this argument proves.

The Jewish slaves were !—consequently
to be consistent they must defend white as well
as black slavery, and this they are beginning
to do in the Slave States. But their false and
abominable doctrines cannot for one moment
stand the light of God's holy word: a day is
coming when it will be seen that they have wrested the scriptures to their own destruction.

It is easy to see why the laws in the slave States forbid the teaching of slaves to read or
write. They it. Educate a
slave and he will be a slave no longer. He
will scatter his chains and oppressors to the
winds. There is much sympathy here for the
oppressed of other nations, Irish, Hungarians,
Italians, &c., &c. Public meetings are called
and tyrants denounced. But what is the worst,
European tyranny compared to American Slavery? It is a light and easy yoke scarcely
worth the name. There is not a spot on the
whole earth at this present moment which presents such a glaring inconsistency of principles with practice, and such revolting contrasts of vaunted liberty and basest servitude, as this republic, which proclaims to all the world that all men are born free and equal with inalienable rights to the pursuit of life, liberty, happiness,—holding at the same moment 3 1/2 millions of innocent men, women, and children, in worse than Egyptian bondage. Shall not the Lord be avenged on such a nation as this?

J.