FREDERICK DOUGLASS ESQ:—I desire to
enquire through the medium of Mr. John
Jones of Chicago, Ill. by what author-
ity he charges upon me the spirit and design
of disunion, in the issue of the Call for the
Emigration Convention? I can submit to
any other wrong—as I have ever been doing
all my life—from colored men, except that of
charging me with a design of injury to my
race; and this I never shall submit to with
indifference, from any source, except one too
contemptible to merit a notice.

Mr. Jones, and the members of the Ill-
inois Convention, must understand, that I am
neither a neophyte, an ephemera, nor a nov-
ice in the cause of our elevation, having
doubtless aided, either directly or indirectly,
in the elevation, morally, of many of the
members of that same Convention, as I had
the honor of starting and conducting, for
five years the first newspaper over publish-
ed or edited by a colored person in the
West, which faithfully defended the rights
of our people; and if they can so soon for-
get the services of some men, because they
are in the favor of others whom they are
pleased to set a higher estimate upon, it
shall not be done by a false representation of
my motives and designs.

There seems to have been but one course
laid out by the superiors among us—for as
such I acknowledge them, with an humble
sensibility of my own obscurity—who have
taken any public action against this great
movement of establishing our nationality,
and that is, to impugn the motives of myself,
and the self-sacrificing men, as several of
them are, whose names are attached to the
Call. I and they favor everything which
may tend to benefit us here, and do all we
can to further so desirable an end; but nei-
ther I nor they can be content, as the great-
est aspirations of our bosoms, with the
mere smiles, and rubbing elbows with white
men, and obtaining limited privileges at
their suffrance. We are doing all here, then
any others of our people are doing, and
much more than many who are making
much noise about it. It is not all who talk
the loudest about staying here for the sake of
the slave, who love him or his cause most, or
even at all; as I know of some who do so,
who would not ask a poor panting fugitive
into their houses, come along when he
would.

But we have no quarrel with those who
love to live among the whites better than the
blacks, and leave them to the enjoyment of
their predilections, and shall continue doing
all we can for the elevation of our people
and race, let that be through whatever just
medium and policy it may.
say so through the columns of the paper, and
return it to me.

Yours for God and humanity,

M. R. DELANY.

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 7th, 1853.

Well: this is decidedly one of the most
querulous, dictatorial, uncharitable, hasty,
and unprovoked assaults upon a worthy man
which it has been our fortune or misfortune
to meet with. The reader, to understand
the injustice of this letter, should bear in
mind that Mr. JONES has never written one
word for our columns, in any manner reflect-
ing upon M R Delany.—EDITOR