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BOSTON, Mary 12th, 1855.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ESQ: MY DEAR SIR:
—The Temperance Convention was held on
Tuesday in Tremont Temple. It was an en-
thusiastic gathering of the friends of Tem-
perance. Gov. Gardner presided, and made
a speech in favor of prohibitive legislation.
Resolutions were passed, urging Temperance
men to see that the new law is rigidly en-
forced and thanking Mayor Smith for issuing
his proclamation and declaring that he will
"impartially and fearlessly enforce the law"
in Boston. The Address calls particularly
on ministers of religion, philanthropists,
statesmen, patriots, men of business, fathers,
mothers, and every "follower of God, and
friend of human kind," to aid in the work
of human redemption. The Address re-
gards "the great feature of the present law
to be the provision making imprisonment in
the House of Correction the penalty for the
sale of every glass of liquor," and concludes
that it is the most beneficial law on the stat-
ute book, repressing all crimes by the pun-
ishment of one. Rev. E. Thompson, of
Walpole, Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, of Bos-
ton, Rev. Mr. Pierpont, Rev. Mr. Sanger, of
Dover Hon. Amsa Walker, Mr. Samuel Hoar,
Rev. Dr. Nevin, of Walpole, Rev. Lyman
Whiting, of Reading, Rev. E.D. Peck, of
Portland, Rev. Mr. Waldo, of North Brook-
field, Rev. Sylvanus Cobb, of Boston, Mr.
Pitman, of New Bedford, Mr. J. M. S. Wil-
liams, of Cambridge, Mr. Trumbull, of Con-
necticut, Rev. Phineas Stowe, Rev. E. H.
Chapin and Gov. Clark, of New York, were
the speakers. Many strong Anti-Slavery
sentiment's were expressed, and "higher law"
doctrines advocated, and some sentiments to
us pro-slavery. Such, for instance, as the
resolution thanking Mayor Smith, &c. We
could not work on a platform with a man
who has taken such an audacious stand
against freedom, as Mayor Smith has taken.
We think his political tricks make him a
proper subject for Barnum! If he is half
so good a temperance man as he professes
to be, why has he not executed the old law?
Every one knows that, with the exception
of a few poor men, liquor selling has been
connived at, and drunkenness has been as
common here as in other large cities, which
have prohibitory laws.

The act in amendment of "an act con-
cerning public schools, which we alluded to
in a recent number of your paper, has pass-
ed both houses, received the signature of
the Governor, and is now a law. This is
glorious news, not only to us here, but to all
who' are battling against the proscriptions
which have doomed us to occupy an inferior
position in society.

The Hiss affair, as heretofore in our Le-
gislature, has occupied much of the time;
the Committee appointed to inquire into the
conduct of that member, made a report on
Tuesday; the substance of it was, that he

"Who followed Mary to the Hall
And on her neck his had let fall,
Invited her to Montreal!"