Nubia to Frederick Douglass, April 6, 1855

FROM OUR SAN FRANCISCO CORRESPONDENT.

MR. FREDERICK DOUGLASS: SIR:--The people of San Francisco are a strange people. A man may be shot down in the streets without causing a remark; but the circumstance of a colored man voting in a convention of whites, causes the public mind to heave and surge like an angry sea. The circumstances are these: Mr. Moore is a colored man, and the teacher of a colored public school. A convention of teachers is called. Mr. Moore attends the convention and participates in its deliberations. This fact becoming known to the Herald of the city, its "indignation is aroused, its sense of propriety outraged, and hopes the disgraceful scenes enacted in New York will not be repeated here." This calls out a number of communications, all to the effect "that the negro did not vote." The President of the convention denied that there was any negro present in the capacity of member, but says he might have been "attending to the [illegible]," Another communication was to the effect that the "negro was there as a watcher, but was not allowed to vote"--The truth of the whole matter is, that the convention had not the moral courage to array itself against pro-slavery opinion, by simpky saying that the admission of Mr. M. was a right of which he could not be justly deprived.

The Legislature is in session. Mr. Flint (one of the members) asked leave to introduce a bill to prevent Chinese and all others not eligible to citizenship, from holding mining claims. If this bill should pass, it will strike a terrible blow at the colored miners, some of whem are in possession of the best claims in the State.

Intelligence of the death of Kamekameha, the King of Sandwich Islands, has been received. He was in favor of annexation to the United States. His son, on the contrary, (who succeeds him,) is violently opposed to it; and being a man of education, (having been educated in England,) the Americans may despair of having this "star added to their constellation."

Business is ecceedingly dull. The want of rain is severely felt, especially by the miners, who have lots of dirt thrown up, containing millions of dollars, but is, nevertheless, worthless without a rain. The papers from the interior are filled with accounts of horrible murders, lynchings, starvation among the Indians, &c. Alas! the poor Indian, unable to adapt himself to the circumstances of civilization, he soon becomes an object of charity. But at this moment I am reminded of the negro hating Cherokees, and my milk of human kindness is suddenly turned to gall.

The Alta Californian the oldest newspaper in this city, has been sold at sheriff's sale.--Its new proprietors give its readers to understand that it will be sound on the "nigger question." Nothing is so much dreaded by western men as the application of the term abolitionist. This State is so thoroughly pro slavery, so proscriptive to those having anti-slavery predilections, that many northern and eastern man are afraid to aknowledge the State that gave them birth.

The "San Francisco Athenaeum" recently celebrated their second Anniversary. The report of the Secretary showed the Institution to be in a flourishing condition. The President, for the ensuing six months, is Jacob Francis, of New York, a man well qualified for the position he occupies.

What of the great Cleveland Convention? Have any of those mighty spirits, pregnant with big ideas, and great enterprises, attempted to put their quixotic scheme into execution: I hope, for the sake of the respectability of those composing it, that this great mountain, after so much labor, will not prove unfruitful. Some of the articles in their declaration of sentiments are amusingly bombastic. One of them reads: "we are willing to pay the price for liberty, which others have paid for it." The next says: "We will pay that price, let the cost be what it [illegible]." What nonsense! what brag [illegible]. It seems that these "wise men of Gotham" distinguish between cost and price, but this is one sided. There is, undoubted [illegible]; but my mental vision is [illegible] farsighted to perceive it; but [illegible] not already dead.) and I [illegible] epitaph.

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NUBIA.