Meadsville, April 10, 1850. Frederick Douglass: Dear Sir, ー I employ the present occasion to inform you that the Rev. Samuel R. Ward, of Syracuse, has been invited by the members of the Senior Class of the Meadsville Theological School, to preach their Anniversary Discourse on the 27th of June next. I make this statement, that you may, if you please give notice of the fact to the readers of your journal, and oblige. Your Friend and obedient Servant, B. J. Butts.

Matters and Things in General.

FRIEND DOUGLASS:—If my caption does not present a wide enough platform, your printers may enlarge it.

I am amazed, (or next to it,) that neither "J. T.," or J. W. Loguen, nor any other Syracuse wielder of the pen, has told you of the new argument by which the agent of the Colonization Society sustained his cause, when he honored us with his presence. "Hear ye! Hear ye!" The great idea is this: "The colored people must go to Liberia; for if they stay here, they will wear cotton and eat sugar, which are the product of slave labor, and thus sustain slavery!"

There! Now we are down. Douglass, won't you begin to pack up now? How in mercy can you stay and eat the sugar, and thus keep the shackes on the millions! Our Religious Recorder is mightily pleased with this logic. Some imp—saucy rascal—has suggested that we white skins may as well post off, or stop using slave products: just as if a cotton shirt on a white skin endorsed the chain and whip, as much as if the "darkies" wore it! Or, slave sugar, passing between the real ivery, doing more mischief to free labor, than when appreciated by the delicately trained taste of the Hon. J. R. LAWRENCE!

O. S. Fowler has lectured us thoroughly. His special lecture, given to men only, was enough to produce the greatest reformatory movement—enough to bless Syracuse, and all coming generations. His warning against "the needless expenditure of the vital energy" was worth more to reform men, than scores of the fashionable perionical religious outbursts, where the claims of man, as MAN, have no place.

Rev. Charles G. Finney has done us good: he has told much truth, but he failed to make such an earnest practical application of it as the times demand. For example: on his last Sabbath P. M., at the Park Church, when the Lord's Supper was administered to the disciples of Christ who chose to approach— then, on that occasion, when Mr. F. gave some important instruction to young converts—he left them without one word of warning against joining churches which uphold the slave system! He had no right to leave Syracuse without bearing his testimony most explicitly and publicly on the right side of that great practical theme. To merely say that he laid down the general principles, leaving others to apply them, will not do. We needed something to the point.

Yours,

A CITIZEN OF SYRACUSE.

April 20th, 1853.