Letter from our Corresponding Editor.

WESTERNVILLE, July 11th, 1854.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ESQ.: DEAR SIR:—Here I am three miles from the village of Westernville, in which I lectured last evening. I am just 14 miles from my next appointment. No stage running from this place, and it being off from the railroad, I have yet to make arrangements to reach there.

I had a grand meeting at Rome on Sabbath day. The Court House was crowded by "all sorts of people." I never addressed a more attentive and interested audience. Application was made for the Presbyterian Church, which was refused, the Pastor, Rev. Mr. Knox, remarking that it would be establishing a dangerous precedent. He is a most miserable specimen of that class of "divines," whose "divinity" stands so much in need of "doctoring.["] He informed me in the course of his remarks that he was a "moderate anti-slavery man," and furthermore, "he was a colonizationist."

But more of this in my Notes by the Way. At the commencement of my lecture, I informed my audience that since the passage of the Nebraska Bill, and the flagellation administered by Senator Douglas to the clergy, in which the fact was so clearly bro't to light, that they are expected to bow with spaniel-like obsequiousness to the imperious dicta of the slave power, the churches have, without exception, thrown open their doors to "hear me for my cause." But Rome, I informed them, furnishes an exception; being in Rome, however, I must do as the Romans do. I told them further, I thanked God, that though excluded from the church the doors of the temple of justice were thrown open, and my unfettered soul should speak forth the words of truth and soberness. The meeting was a complete triumph. At its close, I received a substantial token of their sympathetic appreciation. On last evening, I had a most interesting meeting in the Presbyterian Church, a most beautiful and commodious edifice, which was pretty well filled with an interested, and as I have since understood an astonished audience. There is considerable pro-slavery feeling here. The minds of the people are beclouded, and their hearts, some of them, in the wrong place. It was understood that a "nigger" was to speak, and, doubtless, fine sport was anticipated. I arose under disadvantages of a crushing nature, but had the satisfaction to know ere the close of the lecture, that the prejudices against the ""nigger" had vanished like a thing of yesterday, and they saw only a man stamped with the impress of Divinity, and one whose appeals had found way to their inmost soul. When riding home, a gentleman observed to me, "Mr. W., the people were astounded to night; you have set them all to wondering." I am now writing in this gentlemen's house, (Mr. Macomber,) and he desires me to say that a most profound impression has been made upon the people for good, and a few more such lectures would abolitionize the village. But I must bring this hasty epistle to a close, as it is time I was en route for Trenton. Remember me to our mutual friend Miss. G.

Yours, fraternally,

WM. J. WATKINS.

The crowded state of our columns last week prevented the publication of this letter earlier.