REV. J. W. LOGEUN'S LETTERS.

MR. EDITOR: — In behalf of the many Fugitive Slaves who have passed through our city to the British soil during the past cold winter and spring, I wish to return thanks to the friends therein, from whom "they have received substantial aid and comfort." They escaped form the land of mangled bodies and bleeding hearts, and found many among you to relieve their wants and strengthen their hearts. To them we say thank you, one and all. It encourages me that many good citizens who have never before been known to stir in such [illegible] in Syracuse and vicinity, have opened their hands liberally in their behalf. When such as these leave their warm bodies in the coldest night of a winter like the past, to lead those shivering and stricken ones to the Underground Railroad Depot, where I and my family are found. I am encouraged to believe that the prowling manhunter better not dwell in or pass incog through our beloved little city.

But the genuine friend of the colored man is not satisfied with simply delivering him from whips and chains—he will joyfully open to him, whether bond or free the passages to employment and self-elevation. Who, then, in and about Syracuse will take into their shops and on their farms our colored youth, and discipline and educate them to the industry and arts of life, as white children are educated? We ask not for them professional employment, but we do ask our white brethren who engross the avenues of laborious industry to open to our gifted and unfortunate young men the paths of life.—On the plantation we are the only artizans and laborers, while as freemen at the North, our color, hitherto, excludes us from mechanical and a fair participation in agricultural employments. We are happy to say that the schools and many churches in Syracuse are thrown open to us and our children. But labor, honest labor must be connected with the education of our heads and hearts, or we can never come to the natural level of our race. We therefore wish to know how many in Syracuse and its vicinity will assist to educate our hands. We wish to know the ladies, having suitable trades for girls, who are willing to give our colored daughters an equal chance with others. I anxiously desire all such to leave their names with Abner Bates, or at Wynkoop & Bro. Bookstore, or at the office of the Mayor of this city.

J. W. LOGUEN.

Will the Sentinel, Journal, and American Organ, and all friendly papers copy the above?
J. W. L.