Philadelphia, Sept. 25, 1848.

Dear Star:ーI am now in Philadelphia, after a stay of one week with my dear family, in Alleghany county, Pennsylvania, whom I had not seen for six months. I left Pittsburg on the nineteenth instant, w[h]ich place I shall give you an account of on my return, arriving here on the evening of the 21st, where I found a large assemblage in waiting in the "Big Wesley" Church, Lombard st., being ably and eloquently addressed by that untiring friend of the slave, Charles Lenox Remond. The meeting of myself and Remond, at such a time and on such an occasion, was certainly a most glorious one, and long to be remembered.

On Friday evening, I attended and addressed a meeting in Hamilton village, across the Schuylkill; and on Sabbath evening a full house in "Little Wesley." On Monday night, C. L. Remond and myself addressed a meeting in the Institute Hall, at which meeting the citizens appointed a committee of 50 for the reception and escort of my inflinching and faithful colleague, Frederick Douglass.ーOn Monday at 11 o'clock, the committee were in waiting at the Walnut street wharf, when the steamer arrived, bearing with it my excellent friend and brother, escorting him to Institute Hall, where the Chairman, Dr. J. J. G. Bias, poured forth the sentiments of fraternal eloquence, which were responded to with a most feeling and happy effort by brother Douglass. Rev. W. T. Catt[o], an able and eloquent gentleman, Rt. Rev. George Galbraith, and several other gentlemen, addressed the meeting. Mr. Douglass having announced that he casually learned that that most noble specimen of a man, Henry H. Garnet, would arrive in the next train, the same committee was immediately appointed to escort Mr. Garnet to the same Hall.

Mr. Garnet arrived in the course of an hour, escorted to the Hall by the Committee, where Dr. Bias again filled every ear, as well as the soul of his distinguished guest, with the sound of his eloquent voice. Several gentlemen addressed the meeting. Here, before this meeting closed, Garnet, Douglass, Remond and myself, all had the pleasure, for the first time in our lives, of meeting and shaking glad hands together! This was a meeting the remembrance of which can never be effaced. Truly, the God of Liberty, in this instance, was lavish with favors. This evening, we had a glorious meeting at the Shilo Baptist Church, crowded to overflowing, hundreds having to go away, unable to gain admittance, which meeting had been previously appointed for myself, with the assistance of C. L. Remond. At this, as at the other meetings, subscribers were obtained; also a large number of ladies, married and maidens, offered their services to obtain subscribers, which they are now doing. At this meeting, Remond, Garnet, and Douglass spoke, I having lost the present use of my voice by hoarseness, from cold and speaking.

Yesterday evening, the 26th, our meeting was held in the Lombard street Church, ("Big Wesley,") which was crowded from the gallery to the pavement, the yard being actually filled with females, unable to enter, who remained, endeavoring to catch a sound, a glorious sound of Libertyーa word for God and humanity, and hundreds actually left, because it is against the city ordinance, else the street would have been filled. Here Remond, Garnet and Douglass poured forth the most thrilling peals of eloquence, which were repeatedly loudly responded to by the mutual aspirations of assembled hundreds. I did not speak on this occasion, for the same reason as on the last. This evening, Mr. Garnet speaks in "Little Wesley," and to-morrow evening we shall all speak in Zoar Methodist Church, Hamilton village.

Monday and Tuesday next, we hold a series of protracted Anti-Slavery meetings, day and night; and never was there a time before in the history of our people, when so much interest was felt and manifested by themselves in the anti-slavery movement. The cause of the slave is now in their own hands, assisted by our friends, and as I have oft repeated and long urged, when Liberty is fully appreciated and her cause espoused by us, slavery, that accursed monster, must fall. With the master-grasp of Garnet, Remond, Douglass, Purvis, and others, who are nobly fighting side by side with us, upon his infernal throttle, with the host of noble men and women at their backs, with the feeble aid that I shall render, the monster now staggers, and must soon fallーyea, shall fall, to rise no more!ーCould a place be obtained large enough to contain ten thousand people, at present, it could be filled, such is the interest manifested. A proud day indeed will it be for us, and a terrible day for slavery, when the colored peopleーwhen we shall stand up in the might and majesty of manhood, and declare by our strength, that slavery shall cease. When we thus determine, then, and not until then, will the day of our redemption come. Let us have but one mind, one purpose, one cause, and one determinationーyea, and but one watch-wordーLet my people go!

There are indeed a great number of colored people in this city, sufficient, if their efforts were properly concentrated and directed, to effect anything within the possibility of man; but unfortunately, with a few exceptions, though there are very many fine people of both sexes, like our brethren generally in this country, this is not the case. Though many are the praiseworthy, industrious mechanics, perhaps of every description to be found, still, young gentlemen of capital and fortunes do not invest their means in trading and business as we could desire, and which is necessary to give us equal importance with the whites. I would to God it were otherwise.

The present state of the anti-slavery cause here, demands our protracted stay, and to leave the city at this time, would be to forego one of the most favorable opportunities that has ever presented itself for doing good among our people. Consequently, Mr. Douglass will remain unti next week, when he will leave about the middle for home. On Saturday next, Douglass, Remond and myself go to Wilmington, Delaware, to hold an Anti-Slavery meeting, though a slave State. Thus you perceive we intend to "beard the lion in his den." Wilmington is the place where Thompson, the man who endeavored to discredit the Narrative of Douglass, resides, and whom Douglass so successfully refuted in an able letter from Scotland. Thus gloriously goes onward our march to certain victory.

Remond, previous to our coming, has been doing a good work, by arousing the churches to a sense of their position and duty. This was much needed, as everyone must know, since there are still a large number of colored churches in connection with the pro-slavery white churches, though the members generally are fine people, and decidedly opposed to slavery as such, their position being inconsistent; and a number of others, which, while they are independent of these pro-slavery connections, are fearful, should their doors be opened anti-slavery lecturers, of injuring the character of such churches. To convince these, our brethren, of those absurdities, will of itself be a work of mercy and love.

Among the churches which have openend their doors, are "Big Wesley," "Little Wesley," Shilo, (Baptist,) Zoar, the Baptist and Methodist Churches in West Philadelphia. An old citizen by the name of Edward Shippen Bird, a very wealthy gentleman, among his legacies, has left to his colored servants, as follows: To Hannah Parker and daughter, nurse, a fine house in Locust street and $1,000; Harriet Peterson, widow of an old faithful servant, $1,500; her daughter Jane, $1,600; Ruth Hooper, an old cook, $1,600; Elizabeth Newman, chambermaid, $1,100, and Samuel Brown, waiter, $1,100. From the liberality of these legacies, I give them as an item of news, so unusual is it for colored persons, though they may have worn out their lives in the service of wealthy men in this country, to anything like a respectable portion of their estate. And how favorably does this contrast with the bequeathment of the late Banker, Stephen Girard, who, though worth fifteen millions of money, strained an effort, when he provided in his will that two hundred dollars of an annuity should be given to an old and faithful female servant, who had worn out a valuable life in the service of that ungrateful old Frenchman.

There are now in Philadelphia, or the neighborhood, Mons. Dupee, Ex-Secretary of State of Haiti, a Haitian Senator, a fine-looking man, and a merchant, the last two of whom I have seen, and had much conversation with the merchant, who is a very intelligent gentleman, and speaks English well.

Although a fugitive prisoner, condemned, as he informed me, to four years' imprisonment, he repudiates, with contempt and scorn, the imputation upon the Haitian Republic, as charged by the miserable corrupts of the American press, and denies, positively, that the disturbance is based upon color or complexion. He referred me to France, and observed, in a tone and spirit which I shall never forget, "As well might you charge the present revolution in France as being based upon color;" observing that the partizans were made up irrespective of color, and that the President's guard were principally mulattoes. Soulouque, he says, who is black, is a very ignorant man, one who had never been accustomed to good society, and only known as an old soldier, who, two years ago, was elected general of one of the Arondissmal regimentsーthe same as our military regiments. A clique, he says, of politicians, forced him on the people, as a no-party man, in opposition to men of splendid talents and qualifications, blacks and mulattoes, many of whom were the first choice of all the intelligent citizens. As soon as the people expressed themselves against his defective administration, he became offended, and, like ignorance generally, determined on being avenged, immediately discarded the Constitution, declared it null and void, thus assuming the powers of government. However, this amounts but to a temporary matter, much as we regret it, he says, and will last no longer than the power of the present man continues, when all those who have left will return. It is only offensive to those who are terrified to leave, and these consist of blacks and mulattoes, His family is in Haiti, consisting of a wife and four interesting daughters, about whom he has no concern further than the social enjoyment of their society. No women nor children are interfered with, and all the persons condemned to death, according to his account, as far as he could recollect, were—14 in Aux Cayes, 5 in St. Domingo, 1 in Jeremie, which, added to the 12 in Porte Repubcan, will make an aggregate falling far short of the number killed in the Cincinnati mob of 1842.

Haiti, our informant tells us, is an excellent country, and he leaves here shortly for Jamaica.
I will write again next week, when I shall have more to say of Philadelphia, men and things. Until then, I am faithfully for God and humanity,

M. R. D.