Friend Douglass:—
I have read your paper with a great deal of satisfaction, on account of your plain dealing with the giant sin of our country. We need such periodicals, sustained and multiplied over the land. The great exciting topic, next to money-making, is liberty, not only in our own professed land of liberty and so-called equal rights, but over a large portion of the eastern continent; and while Louis Bonaparte and our friend Kossuth is anxiously attempting their different means to extend the area of liberty, and appealing to the United States, if not for men, for money and influence, we had better labor to extend the God-given rights that we, as a nation, have taken by fraud and force from three millions of our own countrymen. It should be our business to pull the beam out of our own eye, as a nation, before we even dare sympathize with Hungary. I am glad to find the colored people of the State of New York repudiate the colonization scheme as unworthy of their regard.—We need them at this crisis of our country, to stand in the gap as they have done at Christiana; and until the fleeing fugitive will give battle when on the soil of Pennsylvania in behalf of personal liberty, he cannot expect his friends to spill their blood in his behalf. Parker, Purkney and others did nobly on that occasion. It is, friend Douglass, a trying time when such citizens as aided in the rescue of Daniel at Buffalo, and those at Syracuse in the rescue of Jerry, have, for their humanity, to suffer such abuse and expense from the power that is bound to protect them.
Yours for the down-trodden and oppressed,
Wm. GrayGray, William


Wayne, Erie Co., Pa.