Freedom League.

Frederick Douglass:—It is time that the friends of Freedom combined to protect themselves against the blood-hounds—the Websters and Fillmores, and D. D.'s (devil's dogs.) For this purpose let leagues be formed in every city and town in the land. Let all who feel any self-respect, any sense of shame for the gross and shameful outrages that have been committed in the name of law, immediately enroll their names, and hold themselves in readiness to defend themselves and their neighbors against the assassins. Law and Justice have been trampled underfoot. Moral suasion, reason, argument, are no longer of any avail. While we are dealing with men, it is folly, madness, wickedness, to use any other than moral means. But when we have to do with brutes and fiends, we must use such arguments as brutes and fiends can appreciate. There is yet enough manliness left in the people to prevent their being rode over, rough shod by the infamous tyrants who seek to trample them in the dust. Recent demonstrations prove this. Concert of action is all that is necessary. To secure this, let no time be lost.

Francis Barry

Berlin, Nov. 11, 1851,