A friend at Auburn writes:—

BROTHER DOUGLASS: DEAR SIR—Your fa-
vor of March 31st was duly received, con-
taining a circular, and my bill for your pa-
per. Enclosed is two dollars, please pass to
my credit. I cannot refrain from express-
ing my concurrence with the views con-
tained in said circular. That humanity de-
mands some thorough and independent me-
dium, through which its claims can be advo-
cated, and the rights of man sustained
against the monopoly and wicked legislation
of the nation, is felt by every thinking
mind. I am rejoiced at the allusion you
make to the elevated principles of the Lib-
erty Party; to my mind, it is the only true
foundation of civil government. As the U.
S. increases in wealth and population, there
seems to be a determination among the politi-
cal leaders of this country to exterminate en-
tirely the free colored population, under the
false and damnable pretext of civilizing and
christianizing some other parts of the globe.
The South have made their demands mainly
on the general government; now the State
of Illinois, as if anxious to show her devo-
tion to the slave interests of the nation,
bows down before it with all the sanctity of a
Romish Priest, or the devotion of a heathen
Pagan. Many of the States of this Union
are reviving the Colonization scheme—a
scheme that never ought to have existed;
and if it had sprung up as if by magic, it
should have been murdered with its first in-
dications of life, and have been buried so
deep that the most designing and treacher-
ous enemies of mankind could never have
raised it.

Our worthy friend and brother, W. W.
Chapman, of Oswego Co., has written to me
in regard to calling a convention; he is
chairman of the State Committee; I am
chairman of the National Committee of the
Liberty Party. He asks, shall it be a Na-
tional, or State Convention? My opinion
is, it should be a State Convention. He says
if this is thought best, he will call it to be
held on the 4th day of July next, at Syra-
cuse or Canastota. I would suggest that
Auburn be the place; there is plenty of fal-
low ground to be broken up here, and there
are many who wish to see and hear Fred-
erick Douglass, Gerrit Smith, and others, on
that question. The time, I think, is appro-
priate, when the nation is engaged in boast-
ing, through its orators, of civil and reli-
gious liberty, let us get together and lay be-
fore the nation the just demands of millions
that justly ask the rights of manhood. Sir,
please give us your opinion on the subject.

Yours for the enslaved,

WM. C. SHAPCOTT.