LETTER FROM J. C. MORREL.

BROOKLYN, Jan. 19th, 1854.

DEAR DOUGLASS:—A caricature on the
proceedings of the first neeting of the N.
Y. State Council, drawn by the hand of my
skillful and kind friend, J. N. Still, Esq., has
just come to my hand by the Aliened American.
Now, had I read it in the New York Herald,
where I and many of my brethren have
times without number been held up to pub-
lic scorn and derision, the libel should, for
me, have remained unanswered. But as the
attack comes from another branch, justice to
the Council, as well as a proper regard for
myself, demands that I should say some-
thing, in the absence of an authentic publi-
cation of the minutes, particuarly as the
statement of my good friend, J. N. Still, Esq.,
abounds in errors and misrepresentations
throughout.

The caricature is introduced by a very
silly, uncalled for, and not to use a harsher
term, a most unkind misrepresentation of
the good, noble, generous, and well-tried
brother, J. W. Loguen; but I have not tak-
en up my pen as his defender—he is well
adequate to his own defense. If it were
necessary, in my view however, J. W. Lo-
guen is too firmly seated in the great anti-
slavery heart of the nation to need any de-
fense.

I truly regret that Mr. Day has suffered
himself thus to be misled. Now to my dear
friend, J. N. Still, Esq.,

1. It is not true that the doings of Mon-
day, Jan. 2d, were declared illegal; their
minutes were adopted, and their Committee
Report was accepted and adopted.

2. It is not true that the "Rules and Reg-
ulations of the Rochester Convention" were
ever mentioned—much more, to be read and
adopted. And so far as relates to myself, I
have never read the Rochester rules in my
life—while the rules, &c., presented by the
Committee appointed on Jan. 2d, I read re-
peatedly. In relation to the anxiety of the
members of the State Council, and of their
great desire to be elected to the National
Council, I can only say that I saw none of
it. I knew of only one member who ex-
pressed a desire to be transferred to that
body. Yet that gentleman never solicited a
vote of mine on any occasion; he had it
without asking. Query.—Did he ask one of
the Lobby members? I know full well that
my friends, Smith and McDonough, had not
the remotest desire to be elected to the Na-
tional Council; and in regard to myself, I
stated in pretty plain English, and loud
enough to be heard even by a "Lobby mem-
ber," that I hoped and trusted that none of
my friends would place my name on their
tickets; but my kind friend, like the reporter
for the Herald, did not hear me. Query.—Was he studying Arithmetic at the time? So
much, then, for the "strong and striking
manifestations" by the members of the State
Council, to be annexed to the "National
Council."