New York, June 17, 1852.

Friend Douglass:—I did not write the following article, but on hearing the writer say he intended to free his mind in relation to the apostacy of H. B. Stanton, by writing a letter for your paper, I persuaded him to allow me to offer it to the Tribune, believing, by thus obtaining a wider circulation, it would do more good. Accordingly, I offered it to Mr. Dana, one of the editors of the Tribune, but Mr. Greeley objected to inserting it solely on the ground that it gave too much consequence to Stanton. The duty now devolves on me, a little chagrined at the necessity, of sending to you the article which was originally designed for your paper.

Do with it as you please. In conclusion, I will say that a devotion of his heart and soul to the cause of the crushed bondman, from the first days of the struggle, entitles the writer in question to use that "great plainness of speech," which characterizes his strictures upon the horrible defection of the associate of Theodore D. Weld, Alvan Steward and William Goodell.

Yours, &c., Elias Smith.