CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 19, 1853.

FRIEND DOUGLASS: DEAR SIR:—In conse
quence of the illness of Rev. Byrd Par
ker, who is now convalescent, our ratification
meeting was postponed until last Tuesday
evening, the 16th inst., when a number of
colored citizens [congregated?] in the A. M. E.
Church, on Jackson Street, to hear the re
port of the delegates to the late Colored Na
tional Convention, at Rochester.

The meeting was organized by the unani
mous call of William Smith, late of Raleigh,
N. C., to the Chair; Joseph H. Barquet, Sec
retary.

On taking the Chair, the Chairman made
a few appropriate and happy remarks, and
briefly stated the object of the meeting. Mr.
Bonner, on the part of the co-delegates,
then reported, in a spirited, and animated
manner, the proceedings of the National
Convention. During the reading of the De
claration of Sentiments, the reader was re
peatedly interrupted by enthusiastic out
bursts of applause, and of unmistakable
marks of approbation.

Rev. J. A. Warren then addressed the
meeting at some length, and was followed by
friend Jones, who, in his usual bold and vig
orous manner, descanted upon the doings and
favorable results which he thought would
follow the late demonstration at Rochester.
The writer also addressed the meeting. He
was followed by William Johnson, and J. H.
Barquet, both of whom spoke well.

Henry Bradford then offered the following
resolutions, which, after some discussion,
were unanimously adopted.

Resolved, That we, the colored citizens of
Chicago, have listened with much pleasure
and delight to the report, in part, of the
proceedings of the great National Conven
tion of colored freemen, who assembled in
Rochester, N. Y., on the 6th of July last, and
do most cordially and willingly endorse the
same.

Resolved, That we regard the manly ad
dress, or Declaration of Sentiment, the form
ation of the National Council, and Indus
trial College, and all the important doings
and recommendations of that Convention, as
most important steps towards our improve
ment and general elevation.

Resolved, That the social, friendly, and
hospitable manner in which our delegates to
said Convention were received and treated by
the citizens of Rochester, merit, and should
receive, the lasting gratitude of all colored
Americans.

Resolved, That we will, individually and
collectively, use our time, our talents, and
our money, in the furtherance of all just
measures recommended by the great Nation
al Convention of colored freemen.

Resolved, That we recognize in Frederick
Douglass' Paper an able and efficient cham
pion of our cause, and we hereby promise to
extend to it our support.

Resolved, That we have heard, with much
joy and delight, that Frederick Douglass, the
able and eloquent advocate of human rights,
and the great terror of the slave-hunter and
slave-owner, contemplates visiting this city,
soon, for the purpose of addressing our fel
low-citizens on the above subject; and we
most heartily congratulate him and our
selves for this favorable opportunity of hear
ing "the colored man eloquent."

The meeting adjourned to meet next Tues
day evening, at the same place, to elect del
egates to the State Convention, to be holden
on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of October next.

Yours for God and Liberty,

H. O. WAGONER.