For Frederick Douglass' Paper.

FROM OUR NEW HAVEN CORRESPONDENT.

NEW HAVEN, Oct. 10th, 1855.

F. DOUGLASS, ESQ.: DEAR SIR:—In continuing
our notices of the signs of the times, as
they appear in this part of the field of vision,
we begin by saying that the concert of the LUCA
FAMILY was completely successful; Brewster's
Hall, the most popular in this city, being
filled to its utmost capacity, with the very elite
of the city. This was gratifying to all who desire
the improvement and elevation of the colored
people. In this change of public feeling,
in this manifestation of the removal of prejudice,
we recognize the good fruit of the labors
of our Anti-Slavery friends, and among them,
none are to be appreciated more highly than
the Lecture of WENDELL PHILLIPS, Esq., of
Boston. In his most eloquent and able Lecture
last spring, he rebuked clearly and explicitly,
prejudice against a man simply on the account
of the color of his skin. No person would
ever dream from hearing the most of those
styled Reform lectures or Anti-Slavery lectures,
that there is in this land of boasted freedom, any
such class of persons, as the nominally free;
and very little is ever said of the moral, mental,
or of the intellectual condition of the slaves,
while the social condition of both, is wholly ignored.
The New Haven County Horticultural
Fair has just closed its annual meeting, and we
are gratified to note the fact, that the second
prize for the best squashes was given to Mr.
M. LYMAN, a colored farmer of this city. Let
this fact stimulate others to "go and do like
wise." Mr. Lyman has taken prizes at these
annual Fairs several times, we believe. In relation
to the remarks, which were made in a
former communication concerning Lectures in
this city, it should have been stated that the
"Young Men's Library Association" have
made arrangements for a course of Lectures,
which are the fourth course to be delivered here
this season. We hope the "New Haven
Union Literary Society" will have a course, and
if it cannot have distinguished speakers from
abroad, the "ETHIOPS," and the "COMMUNIPAWS,"
whose literary zeal and classic ability
are abundantly shown in the interesting columns
of —then let the
dignified LATHROP, the versatile ATHONY, the
studious GREEN, the accomplished BASSETT,
the graceful LACY, the polished CREED, the brilliant
P. F. ROGERS, and the able A. L. ROGERS
—but why enumerate the SCOTTS, the CASSELLS
the LIVINGSTONS, and the HANDCOCKS, and
others, who from the rich store house of their
acquirements, are able to interest and instruct
the public mind, and mould the public sentiment
to virtue and truth? Come, gentlemen,

thrown open the doors of your Society, and lay
your varied offerings of intellectual wealth upon
the Altar "of public, and mutual improvement."
The vote on the proposed amendment
to our State Convention has been taken and
carried, so that from this time all electors will
have to be able to read any section of any Law,
or any Article of the Constitution. Reasonable
as this requirement is, and notwithstanding
the severe storm, which prevailed on the day of
election, more than TEN THOUSAND freemen of
old Connecticut voted "No," declaring that in
their opinion, that a "white" man is qualified
for all the duties and responsibilities of the elective
franchise, if he is to read the names
on his ballot! Eight years ago SIXTEEN THOUSAND
voters of this State declared that the word
"white" should not be stricken from the Constitution,
which, had it been done, would have
admitted to the rights of citizenship a few hundred
men, among whom but few, if any, could
be found unable to read. The color of the
skin, if serious, solemn moment, the darkness
and ignorance of the mind, and the degradation
of the morals are of no consequence. So in
in Connecticut, so in the estimation of the New
York ; for it boldly and unblushingly
asserts in the face of all the civilized world,
that the "Blacks, as a class, are indolent, improvident,
servile, and licentious," but that they,
the "Blacks ought to enjoy the right of Suffrage
just as the Whites do!" Fight for the
right, notwithstanding, "as a class, they are indolent,
improvident, servile, and licentious!"—
What Philosophical guardians of the purity of
the ballot-box, the interest of civil Liberty. When
it was known that the amendment was carried
in the State, the chief Democratic paper of this
city discoursed as follows: "It is an abominable
idea that a man should be classed with criminals
and deprived of his rights as a citizen, because
he cannot read!" And yet, the Register, in relation
to striking out the word "" from
the Constitution, threw its influence against a
proposition so just and reasonable.

A. G. B.