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Tlie experiment of reducing t!ie Posi age is snid lo liavo worked fnr more favoraMy than iis most sanguine friends mticipated. The deticiency under the neiv rales is rapkily diminishing; and the news papers are again raising the inquiry, why wc, a nation of progressvc republicana, can not have our letters and papers carried ns clieap as ihe pooide of a monarch; a housand ycavs old. The hie reform, os ("ir as il went, wasseeured by ths unaniinous cry of the pub!ic press in ils fivor; and a fufther reduclion willonly bc obtftined in the way. Had it iiot been for the opposiüon of the Slnveholders, the ralea wottW lmve then boen made uniform for all distances al fivecent, inslead of five and ten. The true plun now wil bo lo go in for two cents for nll Surely, fat this rate, the British Government dtrivc an annunl lovenue of nearly $4.000,000, above all expenses, the will pay its own way this sido OÍ the Atlantic. The Detroit Free Press, the Su.ie Paper, thussrts the ball in motion : " The people shüuld take np the subject at once. Let acoinmiMe be oppoinled in every schooi dial riel, to circuíate etiiions. If tliere is loo much Iroublein ihat, let eveiy person resolve himself into a commiltee-mnn - get signalures, and Mtid them lo our membera lör wesentslion. Pour !,"!.i into ConaTPts. TWO C E N 'I'S P I : :.! n a LF O U N C E, 1 R R SPECTIVE OF DISTANCE. AND PTEWSPA-PERS FREE.IF PRINTED IN TUÉSTATE." We have received f rom Bn. W of Muine, Editor of the 'Litarty dard,' and n reliable man - who altunded the Noiional Convonlion as ono of the delególes (rom ihnt Stnte - the foüowing nrticle in reference to a pAragraph coutained in oor letter from Buffalo, which appeared in the lastFreeman. The position of Mr, il.'Ie, as undarstood by us at BulTalo, is essentially modifiod and iwiprovpd by these explnnaiions of Mr. VV.; nnd wc now néo 110 goo3 reason why ilie Pieideniial Dominee of t!e Buíl'ilo Convention .shoiild iiot reeeive t'.ie hearty confidtMice anti support of our fiiends here and e'sewhore, which lve so evidentiy and enuicullv. cnjovs among the oidest and truesrt Abüü'.ionists of the New Uoglantl S'taies. Hut lo Ero. Wille)' 's letter: - Hcrk'nncr Freeman. F'r ihb florkirner Ffeemaii, IWp. ESale's S'osïliosi. Bi'o. Bowe - I iiotiee a remark in your ast paper respecling Mr. Hale's views of ilie power of the Federal Government over the Domeslic Slave Traáe, which I hink uninlentionally does him injuslice, int! also the Conventlon that nominated tiim. From personal communicat on with Mr. H., I know thnt he fully believes in the entire power of the government to supprpss the slave trade by sea, to the e.tent of all Tis resources, and that the highest obligations vest on ils administrators and on the people to sre tliis done.- - _í r. Hale nlso hrliewsthc Federal cours have power to invalídate conlracls busec on property in inen; and this, he thinks, would essentially destroy the s'ave trade. He dues hot deny the power of the government summarily to abolish the trade wherever and however carried on between the States; but, not havitig fullv examined the absolute power of Congrcss over the trade ly and, such having been his engagements since he took up the snl'jfct, he is not quite prepared 10 coramit himself before the country at this moment bevond the positions specified. - He thinks it not unlikoly, however, that farther invesligation will remove his rcmaining dnubts on this point. When we look o' the diversity of views prevniüng amongour aliest men respecting the detail of som-s of these legal questions, and also thftr magnitude and the jifficullies involved in them, Mr. Hale's ïrudenCPi indepcndenco and sinccriiy are commended ty th frank exnression if his present views. True msn,who on all the main questions agree, vviü r.ot pil nke precisely rhe same views of every oint invo'.ved in our great cause. And t will be quite obvious that the slavo trude woulti be essentially destroyed were it prohibited by sea, where the jrenter part of it is carried on, and all contra:ts subject tu the cognizance of the federal courtij nullificd. it vvould be dead. Liberty men if they would unite the country against s'.avpry, must be vcry tolerant whre the substance oftheir eau te is not involved. Mr. Hale nssured nis and ntliers, in answer to particular inquirió?, that with the slight exception alluded lo, he entirely agrecd vvith all the principies and mensures of the Liberty narly. Yours truiy,