In making appointments, the executive committee have no regard to party discrimination.  This will be fully understood, when it is stated, that on a late occasion, two of our local agents were the candidates of their respective political parties for the office of Secretary of State for the state of Vermont.

It ought to be stated here, that two of the most effective advocates of the anti-slavery cause are females—­the Misses Grimke—­natives of South Carolina—­brought up in the midst of the usages of slavery—­most intelligently acquainted with the merits of the system, and qualified, in an eminent degree, to communicate their views to others in public addresses.  They are not only the advocates of the slave at their own charge, but they actually contribute to the funds of the societies.  So successfully have they recommended the cause of emancipation to the crowds that attended their lectures during the last year, that they were permitted on three several occasions publicly to address the joint committee (on slavery) of the Massachusetts Legislature, now in session, on the interesting matters that occupy their attention.

“10. How many printing presses and periodical publications have you?”

ANSWER.—­We own no press.  Our publications are all printed by contract.  The EMANCIPATOR and HUMAN RIGHTS are the organs of the Executive Committee.  The first (which you have seen,) is a large sheet, is published weekly, and employs almost exclusively the time of the gentleman who edits it.  Human Rights is a monthly sheet of smaller size, and is edited by one of the secretaries.  The increasing interest that is fast manifesting itself in the cause of emancipation and its kindred subjects will, in all probability, before long, call for the more frequent publication of one or both of these papers.—­The ANTI-SLAVERY MAGAZINE, a quarterly, was commenced in October, 1835, and continued through two years.  It has been intermitted, only to make the necessary arrangements for issuing it on a more extended scale.—­It is proposed to give it size enough to admit the amplest discussions that we or our opponents may desire, and to give them a full share of its room—­in fine, to make it, in form and merit, what the importance of the subject calls for.  I send you a copy of the Prospectus for the new series.—­The ANTI-SLAVERY RECORD, published for three years as a monthly, has been discontinued as such, and it will be issued hereafter, only as occasion may require:—­THE SLAVE’S FRIEND, a small monthly tract, of neat appearance, intended principally for children and young persons, has been issued for several years.  It is replete with facts relating to slavery, and with accounts of the hair-breadth escapes of slaves from their masters and pursuers that rarely fail to impart the most thrilling interest to its little readers.—­Besides these, there is the ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER, in which are published, as the times call for them, our larger essays partaking