Communications.

ROCHESTER, Sept. 14, 1853.

DEAR DOUGLASS:—I perceive you continue to be attacked with most unaccountable asperity by the Liberator, Standard, and Pennsylvania Freeman. Although the last two have published long and windy articles against you, yet the points which they raise are utterly insignificant. They say you have attacked George Thompson with bitterness and malignity, but they utterly fail in thier proof. When George Thompson saw fit to attack and misrepresent the Liberty Party three thousand miles off, where there was no one present capable of correcting his misrepresentations, you saw proper to do it, and to show his inconsistency by avoiding a collision with that party while here, and by his readiness to receive money from them for his anti-slavery labors. They do not, like kindhearted friends, endeavor to show you that you are wrong, but utter denunciations, loud and long. This course will not suit a discriminating public. They must put forth something more than long-winded and vapid declamations.

Your opponents profess to think it strange that any man can consistently use his political franchise, because, in their opinion, the United States Constitution is not, in all respects, right. With a "turkey-cock strut," they would ride roughshod over the whole of us for modestly differing in opinion with them. George Thomoson was elected to the British Parliament, took the oath of office under a Constitution, recognizing a queen as sovereign—a union of church and State—a forced maintenance of the clergy—the law of primogeniture, &c., &c. Yet his course is highly approved by these pugnacious non-re sistants. He approves them and they approve him. There seems to be a mutual agreement; "you tickle me, and I'll tickle you."

Now this course to sensible men seems supremely ridiculous. It is too childish and puerile for men of as much capacity as Phillips and Garrison to put forth their efforts to support such airy nothings.

It appears to me, my friend, that you have given great offence, because you saw what every candid man could not help seeing, and because you dared to express it, that Horace Mann was completely triumphant in his controversy with Wendell Phillips. Wendell should have had a little more regard for his dignity before he commenced his attacks.—After he is "used up," it does not appear well to fall back sullenly on his dignity. He should have thought of it at an earlier period, and saved himself from much vexation of spirit. An able man, placing himself in a false position, and using all his power to support it, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong, but blind.

ALPHA