of a controversial character, such as Smith’s reply to the Rev. Mr. Smylie—­Grimke’s letter and “Wythe.”  By turning to page 32 of our Fourth Report (included in your order for books, &c,) you will find, that in the year ending 11th May, the issues from the press were—­bound volumes, 7,877—­Tracts and Pamphlets, 47,250—­Circulars, &c, 4,100—­Prints, 10,490—­Anti-Slavery Magazine, 9000—­Slave’s Friend, 131,050—­Human Rights, 189,400—­Emancipator, 217,000.  These are the issues of the American Anti-Slavery Society, from their office in this city.  Other publications of similar character are issued by State Societies or individuals—­the LIBERATOR, in Boston; HERALD OF FREEDOM, in Concord, N.H.; ZION’S WATCHMAN and the COLORED AMERICAN in this city.  The latter is conducted in the editorial, and other departments, by colored citizens.  You can judge of its character, by a few numbers that I send to you.  Then, there is the FRIEND of MAN, in Utica, in this state.  The NATIONAL ENQUIRER, in Philadelphia;[A] the CHRISTIAN WITNESS, in Pittsburgh; the PHILANTHROPIST, in Cincinnati.—­All these are sustained by the friends, and devoted almost exclusively to the cause, of emancipation.  Many of the Religious journals that do not make emancipation their main object have adopted the sentiments of abolitionists, and aid in promoting them.  The Alton Observer, edited by the late Mr. Lovejoy, was one of these.

[Footnote A:  The NATIONAL ENQUIRER, edited by Benjamin Lundy, has been converted into the PENNSYLVANIA FREEMAN, edited by John G. Whittier.  Mr. Lundy proposes to issue the GENIUS OF UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION, in Illinois.]

From the data I have, I set down the newspapers, as classed above, at upwards of one hundred.  Here it may also be stated, that the presses which print the abolition journals above named, throw off besides, a great variety of other anti-slavery matter, in the form of books, pamphlets, single sheets, &c, &c, and that, at many of the principal commercial points throughout the free states, DEPOSITORIES are established, at which our publications of every sort are kept for sale.  A large and fast increasing number of the Political journals of the country have become, within the last two years, if not the avowed supporters of our cause, well inclined to it.  Formerly, it was a common thing for most of the leading party-papers, especially in the large cities, to speak of the abolitionists in terms signally disrespectful and offensive.  Except in rare instances, and these, it is thought, only where they are largely subsidized by southern patronage, it is not so now.  The desertions that are taking place from their ranks will, in a short time, render their position undesirable for any, who aspire to gain, or influence, or reputation in the North.

“11. To what class of persons do you address your publications—­and are they addressed to the judgment, the imagination, or the feelings?”