Lockport, 12th mo. 2d.

Frederick Douglass:—I enclose $2 to pay my subscription to the North Star the current year. May its course be onward until it shall have witnessed the entire emancipation of man from slavery. The infamy of the fugitive slave bill is showing itself in its natural deformity, and the poor white slaves of perjured kidnappers at the North stand up in all their beauty.—Mr. U. S. Commissioner Ingraham, of Philadelphia, a man of eminent legal attainments, but totally lost to every sense of humanity and justice, is a fair specimen of the wretches that infamous law clothes with authority to sit in judgment on the liberty of freemen.—The idea that even a jury of twelve impartial men may even be clothed with power to decide whether I shall be sent a slave for life to a southern cotton field is terrible! but when such men as Ingraham, with an offer of a bribe, are to have the sole power of deciding whether I shall be a slave for life to some Southern man-stealer, every feeling is aroused, and one involuntarily exclaims, "Give me liberty or give me death." Is this in accordance with American freedom — to make laws clothing bribed wretches with power to send freemen into slavery? Hold up to the gaze of the world the representatives who dared sanction, directly or indirectly, such a law, the President who approved it, and the slaves who dare execute it! There is infamy enough for the whole tribe to cover them so deep in disgrace that the "sound of the arch-angel's trump will never reach them." Surely, such men—no, wretches—can never be "counted worthy to attain" any resurrection but that of deep, lasting and damning disgrace.

It has been suggested by a "silver grey" and "Hunker," that Ingraham should be removed from office. I think however he should keep his place.—He is the right man to hold office under the fugitive slave law. No man having a soul or conscience would for a moment think of taking office under it. The law is approved by the Northern dough-faces, and ought to be administered by Ingraham to show forth its beauties. I hope the removal of Ingraham will not be urged. Indeed, I regret having signed a petition to repeal the law. Its working will do more to open the eyes of the people than two thousand anti-slavery lecturers. So please say nothing about repealing this law, this bantling of Northern doughfaces, and under the special protection of silver greys and hunkers.

Very respectfully,

L. A. SpaldingSpalding, Lyman A.

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