Letter From Gov. Seward

The following letter was eddrossed by Gov. Seward to VV. H. Brown, in answer toan invita'ion to attend the SufTrage Convention of Colored People at Geneva. Like several similar letters formerly addressed by Biro to the eame class of people, it breathes the spirit of kindness and good will. Will not all the Whigs of Michigan unite with Gov. Seward for lernoving this restriction upon the right of Füffrage, "so groi.ndless in reaton,and nurturcd bo longand bo nngenerously?"Aübürn Sept. 22, 1845. Dear Sír:- Your letter m belialf of the colored citizens of Western New York, invitiug me to attend a convention of the friends of cqual and universal suffrage at Geneva, has been received. Absorbing professional engagements oblige me to be content with the part of an observer rather than an actor in public offliirs. Therefore I cannot promise myself the pleasure of accepting your invilation, bnt 1 tepder you assuronces of my hearty sympathy and coopcration.The prrjudices of white men in our country ogainst your race so groundleps in reason, and nurlured 60 long and so ungeneroutly, have produced just, and at last intolerable self punishment. The frce white laborer trenibles at the ap proach of every session of Congrees, lest the planters of the South, voting for slaves, may deprive him of proteetion against the competition of half paid and half starved indusiry in Europe. The poor man of the North is denied liberty of speech in the House of Representatives, nnd the liberty of addrefsing citizpn? of Oie South on a common evil through a free press. The comnierce of the country, and a!l its vast interests of improvcment by railroads and canele, have been hazarded in the danger of a war for slavery: and finally, that institution lias secured n preponderating power in the Senate of the United States, by breakinp down its high and glorious peroga tiveof raaking treaties with foreign states. These are the alarms, the injuries and the dangers which perplex the white men of the Norih. None of them could have happened if the freed men of the North had enioyed andexerciecd the inalienable righl of Buft'rage. - Their instinctive sympathieB could not have been misled. When the white mon reproaches yon wilh your complexión, yon may safely teil him that a dark skin never covered a dough face. I look impatiently for the restoration of your right of suftrage. I see n its consequences not merely the elevation of a large portion of rny fellow men to social virtues and enjoyments in our own State, but also an influence which will strengthen public opinión and direct it to the banishment of human sla very from ihe face of the earth. Be assured, then, that the votes I fhall cnst for a convention nnd a eonstitution which a -ill belmrbingers of such resnlts, will bethe most cheerfu! exercise of the elcctive franchise in my life. I am, dear Rr, with many thanks for the greal kindness cxpressed in your letter, Very repf-ectfally, Your ob't ser't, VVM. II. SEWARD.Q Next week we thallconclude the article on the first page on the Siníiilneí-s of Slaveliolding under all circumstances. Tlns question may hnvebut liltle interest to a por tion of our readers who have nof a doubt on the subject, yet it line been ond etill is,a so-.irce of contention nnd debate in almost every Cbristian denominalion in the United Stateu. Having of late published but Httle on :.be moral and reliioiis asprcls of thp untMavery question, we deemed an artic.'e of ihe kind, vhich should examine the whole gronnd, ap propriate and calledfor. It has extended to a much greater length than we nnticiprued.- The viewe of the writar in mnny rPspectF are originul, ond the artir'e cai nol bit be piofitable to the thinking reader. ORe?. Mr. Jndson, ntíesioñáry to Burmah, ha8 retnrned to America, liíivmg bppn absent from hts .'.ative country noarly 3J yenrs. Mrs. Judson died during the p;is?age and was Luricd al St. Helena.